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of moderate width, containing seven rounded inter-nervular spots of a 

 tint varying from pale-yellowish to the red ground-colour (some of 

 these spots, and often most of them, join the ground-colour, the black 

 festooned line inwardly bounding them being very thin and in places 

 obliterated). Under side. — Fore-iving : similar, but much paler in 

 tints. Hind-wing : i^ale creamy -yellowish ; the black spots very con- 

 spicuous, those near base more separate than on upper side, being less 

 suffused ; a brick-red patch at base close to costa, and a margin of 

 the same colour running round wing from just before apex to anal 

 angle, and thence to base ; hind-marginal border more perfect than on 

 upper side, the yellowish spots in it round and conspicuous. 



$ Faint oclircy-rcddisli^ sometimes dingy pale-ochreous. Fore-wing : 

 pattern and markings similar, but in the paler specimens almost hereft 

 of colour, and very transparent. Hind-iving : black spots similarly 

 arranged ; in the redder specimens often a blackish suffusion beyond 

 the extremity of discoidal cell, but not reaching hind-marginal band ; 

 in the latter the spots are usually conspicuous from their pale-yellowish 

 tint. Under side. — Quite similar to that of ^, but^:'a/c?'. 



Palpi yellow, thickly set with black hairs. Collar with a yellowish 

 spot ; pectus with five white spots, on each side. Thorax and back of 

 abdomen black ; the latter fuscous beneath, and with a lateral row of 

 reddish spots, gradually increasing towards tip. These spots more 

 developed in the ^, which has also a subdorsal row of four or five very 

 small similar spots on each side of terminal half of abdomen scarcely 

 visible in the $. 



Aberration. — ^ In Jiind-wing all the basal and discal spots are 

 enlarged and confluent, so that nearly the whole surface is black. 



Hab. — Pembroke Farm, near King William's Town (Miss Agnes 

 Bowker, 1873). In the collection of the South- African Museum. 



The size and even number of the spots in this species vary very 

 much as regards the hind-wing, some examples having them very large 

 and well developed throughout, and others presenting very few and 

 minute spots. The specimens having (like the $ figured by Cramer, 

 loc. cit.) three spots in the fore-ioing are not common. 



Larva. — About i^ in. long; with strong branched spines. Didl 

 brotonish-ochreous, closely striped with black transverse streaks : the in- 

 cisions of segments and a line down the back pale-ochreous ; a broad 

 ochreous band, not crossed by the black streaks, on each side, above the 

 ■legs, which are of a bright shining yellow ; head shining-black. On 

 the second segment are two, and on the last four black branched 

 spines ; on each of all the other segments, six similar spines. Feeds 

 on Kiggclaria Africana (a tree not uncommon about Cape Town) and 

 in gardens on Passiflora coirulea, Tacsonia magnifica, and other pas- 

 sion-flowers. 



Pupa. — About ^ in. long, rather slender ; head blunt, hardly bifid ; 

 lateral angles at bases of wing-covers prominent and acute ; back of 



