58 SOUTH-ArRICA:N" BUTTERFLIES. 



spicuous white spots at base, close to thorax ; inner and outer row of 

 hind-marginal spots both white and conspicuous, arranged in pairs 

 between nervules, — between third median nervule and submedian 

 nervure there are three spots in the inner row, and four in the outer. 

 Fringes of both wings white-dotted. 



Yar. A. ^ and $ {Alhimaculata, Butl.) — All the spots in fore- 

 wing imrc ichite. Underside paler; the ground-colour of hind- wing 

 and apical portion of fore-wing imh-'brown. Hah. Natal, almost to 

 exclusion of type-form. 



Wallengren {Lcp. Eliop. Caffr., p. 20, in Kongl. Sv. Yetens.-Akad. 

 Handl., ii. pt. iv., 1857) notes a " KaflFrarian" specimen in TVahlberg's 

 collection, belonging to this variety, in which the outer hind-marginal 

 row of white spots on the under side was entirely wanting. 



Var. B. $. — Spots very small throughout, slightly tinged with 

 yellow, nind-iuing patch unusually small, pale-yellow. Hah. Fer- 

 nando Po (Lieut. E. Bourke, E.K) 



The species most nearly allied to A. Eclieria is A. Egialea (Cram.), a native 

 of West Africa, knowa to inhabit Sierra Leone, Cape Palmas, and Ashanti. 

 Echeria is readily distinguished by the whole of its markings being smaller 

 and less transparent {especially the spot in the cliscoidal cell of fore-wing), and 

 by the small and icell-defined yellow hand of the hind-winy, the corresponding 

 marking in Egialea beginning quite close to the base, and externally very 

 gradually shading off into the brown ground-colour. 



; ^^ A. Fhcedon (Fab.), inhabiting Mauritius, is also a close ally, but its mark- 

 ings are, on the other hand, smaller than those of Echeria (with the exception 

 of the hind-marginal spots, which are larger), and the yellow hand of the hind- 

 uing is totally different, being a rather straight and even bar across oider area 

 of the uing. 



Laky A. — Black, with narrow blue and orange longitudinal stripes. 

 Median dorsal stripe, from 5th to i 3th segment, very narrow, bright- 

 blue ; subdorsal lateral stripe interrupted, yellow-orange ; spiracular 

 stripe (superior) interrupted, pale-orange, (inferior) festooned on each 

 segment, yellow-orange. Spiracles faintly ringed with light-blue. 

 Skin slightly rugose. Head smooth, black. Five pairs of rather 

 short, divergent, subdorsal black filaments, springing respectively from 

 the 2nd, 4th, 6th, nth, and 12th segments. 



Food-plant not known : two specimens found in clearing bush. 



Pupa. — Thick, short, gibbous, moderately angulated. Shining 

 silvery-golden ; the angles and points defined with markings of red 

 and black. 



Attached by the tail only ; imago disclosed on the sixteenth day. 



(The foregoing descriptions of larva and pupa are drawn up from 

 Mr. W. D. Gooch's notes and pencil drawings of specimens observed at 

 Little Umhlanga, near D'Urban, Natal, in October 1873.) 



Like most of the Danaince, this butterfly is rather gregarious, and the 

 males are far more frequently met with than the females on the wing. It is 

 strictly confined to woods and copses, and gardens immediately adjacent to 



