174 SOUTH- AFKICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



■with dull-red, and marked with two small black spots; a third small 

 black spot at base, below median nervure ; basal gronnd-colour pale- 

 yellowish ; near base a double row of black spots (enclosing an inter- 

 rupted dull-red band, widest near costa), composed of four in inner 

 row and five in outer row ; the latter bound the inner edge of median 

 band, while the outer edge is more regularly indented on the nervules 

 than on upper side ; beyond median band the whole of the broad 

 hind-marginal border is marked as in fore-wing, but more vividly, and 

 the outer extremities of the hastate fulvous inter-nervular rays are of 

 the same j)ale-yellow as that of median band. 



^ Similar, but rather duller and paler. Fore-iving : subcostal and 

 median nervures more broadly red, sometimes conspicuously so ; disco- 

 median patch more narrowed inferiorly, scarcely passing submedian 

 nervure and not reaching inner margin. Hind-wing : median band 

 less prominent externally in upper portion; on hind-margin often a 

 row of six or seven usually ill- defined fulvous or fulvous-yellowish 

 inter-nervular spots. Under side. — As in $. 



Var. a. — Only subapical bar of fore-wing pale yellow ; the disco- 

 median patch of fore-wing and the hand of hind-wing dull-fulvous ; the 

 former of these two latter markings emitting a ray towards base. 



JTah. — Zambesi (Hewitson Collection). 



Larva. — Bluish-green with yellow-ochreous longitudinal lines and 

 transverse bands. Head and segments two, three, and four, yellowish- 

 brown. Longitudinal lines three, a dorsal and two subdorsal ones. 

 From the transverse band on each segment arise the spines, which 

 are rio-id and of moderate length, black on the second, twelfth, and 

 thirteenth segments, yellow-ochreous on the rest. The band is marked 

 on each side with a bluish-green subdorsal spot and a black spiracular 

 ring. 



Feeds on a woolly, fleshy-leaved weed like a Laniiuni, common in 

 clearings. 



Pupa. — Whitish-green, with the usual pattern of the markings 

 slio-htly marked, the dorsal markings more pronounced than the 

 others. 



Mr. W. D. Gooch, from whose pencil sketches and notes the above descrip- 

 tions are made, states that these larvae are very abundant near Springvale, on 

 the Natal Coast, and that there are three broods in the year. They are 

 oTe^arious, and when young fasten leaves together with silk, feeding on the 

 under side of the leaves. The pupal state usually lasts during ten clays, but 

 sometimes only seven days. 



This species, founded by Hopffer on a single $ example from Inhamhane, 

 is allied to Bonasia, Fab.,! and Cynthius, Drur}^, but more closely to the 



^ I have examined the Fabrician type-specimen in the Banksian Collection in the British 

 Museum, and find that Cramer's Eponina $ {Pap. Exot., t. cclxviii. ff. A, b) quite agrees 

 with it. The butterfly given by Cramer {I. c. ff. c, d) as Eponina ? (see text of vol. iii. 

 p. 138) is evidently a distinct species, being indeed the ? Serena, Fab. In both cases the 

 Fabrician names have priority. 



