i6o SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



continuing to submedian nervure, a row of six large, elongate, some- 

 what wedge-shaped, orange-ochreous spots, of which the fifth and sixth 

 are internally bordered with black. Hind-iuing : |^^7l^"^s/i-^yA^^e ; the 

 basal black assumes the form of an irregularly-shaped but strongly- 

 defined black patch, containing six quadrate or triangular small white 

 spots ; costa at base rather broadly edged with salmon-red, containing 

 a more or less conspicuous black spot ; outer edge of basal patch is also 

 clouded with salmon-red ; spots in central part of wing arranged as 

 above ; two additional ones continue the transverse row to inner 

 margin ; these spots are very conspicuous from the white ground- 

 colour they are on ; hind-marginal band broad and black, containing 

 seven or eight moderately-sized white spots ; the band being bordered 

 inwardly by a row of seven sub-triangular, brick-red spots. 



$ Much duller, suffused with a hroivnish tint ; the hlacTc markings 

 not so dark, especially the basal Mack, which is reduced to a fuscous 

 suffusion, often indistinct. Fore-wing : more or less semi-transparent 

 in middle portion ; subapical ochreous paler, yellower, occasionally 

 partly clouded with white. Hind-iving : any white suffusion about 

 middle of wing rarely found ; hind - marginal border considerably 

 narrower, its inner portion indistinctly defined, so that its row of 

 spots is usually in contact with the somewhat darker ground-colour. 

 Under side. — As in ^. 



The black markings in this species vary much in size, especially 

 the oblique costal bar of the fore-wing, which is sometimes so enlarged 

 as to be completely confluent with the streak at end of discoidal cell. 

 In the Hewitson collection there is a small ^ from the White Nile 

 (mentioned in Exot. Butt., iii. p. i6), which has the border of hind- 

 wing very broad, and the white spots which it contains on the under 

 side very small. A fine $ taken by Colonel Bowker on the Bashee 

 Eiver in Kafiraria has the basal black almosfe as pronounced as in 

 the ^ ; in the fore-wing the apical and hind-marginal blackish is much 

 widened and suffused, with only indistinct traces of the ochreous spots, 

 and the space beyond costal black bar is narrowed and yellowish-white ; 

 while in the hind-wing the hind-marginal border is even, complete, 

 and well-defined from the ground-colour, the row of small pale spots 

 traversing its middle line. 



Larva. — Ochreous-yellow. Each segment broadly banded trans- 

 versely with purplish-red, the band occupying the middle portion. 

 Spines long and distinctly branched, blackish, springing from tubercles 

 situated in the purplish-red bands ; the two dorsal spines on segment . 

 next head longer than the rest, erect. Head ochreous-yellow. Legs 

 and pro-legs purplish-red. 



"Feeds on Passiflora" (Dr. J. E. Seaman, in litt.) 



Plate I. fig. i . 



Pupa. — Pinkish-white. Margins of head, limbs, and wing-nervures 

 defined with black. Abdominal rows of spots arranged as in pupee of 



