DANAII^^. 



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discoidal cell larger and blacker tlian on upper side ; ^ badge con- 

 spicuous, being centred ivith ivhite. Cilia of both wings as on upper side. 



Var. A. {Alcippus, Cram.) ^ and $. 



Disc of hind-wing more or less widely suffused with luhite, particu- 

 larly on upper side. 



Var. B. (Dorippus, Klug), ^ and $. 



Black and tvhite of apical portion of fore-wing wanting, replaced hy 

 the red-ochre ground-colour ; hind-marginal black of both wings blurred, 

 and its white spots obsolete on upper side. General colour duller and 

 paler than in type-form. Disc of hind-wing often suffused with white, 

 as in Alcippus. 



Aberration. — $, Hxp. al., 2 in. 10 lin. 



In fore-wing, the costal spots, the sub-apical bar as far as third 

 median nervule, and (less completely) the small separate spot at junc- 

 tion of ground-colour and apical black, tmited into one hroad, rather 

 suffused, ivhite marking, which extends a little into discoidal cell and 

 narrowly along costa to before middle, leaving a thin black streak 

 closing the cell. 



Hah. — King William's Town (M. E. Barber, August 1870). In 

 the collection of R. Trimen. 



Laeva. — Pale bluish-grey ; on the back transversely barred with 

 bright pale-yellow and streaked with black. Yellow bar on front of 

 each segment from 3rd to i 2th (both inclusive), edged with black both 

 anteriorly and posteriorly, and usually divided mesially by a short 

 black streak uniting the black edges ; three thin black streaks across 

 each of these segments in its middle and posterior portion, and three 

 similar streaks also on 2nd and last segments ; front of head with 

 a black horseshoe-shaped streak ; spiracular stripe bright-yellow, rather 

 suffused ; legs bluish-grey barred with black. Three pairs of moder- 

 ately long, black, flexible filaments, springing from the back of the 3rd, 

 6th, and 1 2th segments respectively, in each case from near the ex- 

 tremities of the transverse yellow bar ; all these filaments are crimson 

 just at the base, and the front pair longer than the others. Length, 

 I in. 6-9 lin. 



Food - plants : Gomphocarpus fruticosus and other Asclepiads. 

 " Near Grahamstown on Gomph. fruticosus, E. Meyer ; in Trans-Kei on 

 Ceropegia Barherce, Harvey " (M. E. Barber). " Near King William's 

 Town on Stapelia sp." (J. H. Bowker). 



Pupa. — Semi-transparent ; either green or pinkish, and sometimes 

 of a tint including both hues. A raised golden spot on each eye, at 

 the base of the wings, and about the middle of the costal edge of the 

 wings ; also two similar spots on each side of back of thorax. On fourth 

 segment of abdomen, dorsally and laterally, a thin blackish tuberculated 

 ridge, edged posteriorly by a continuous row of golden dots. Attached 

 to twigs of the larva's food-plant. Usual period of development into 

 imago, fourteen to twenty days. 



