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with other hind-marginal markings, are thinly expressed in greyish or 

 reddish-brown) dull-violaceous, more or less varied with the pale ground- 

 colour, and containing four ill-defined small ocelli, black-centred, with 

 rufous-brown and pale yellow-ochreous rings, answering to the black 

 spots of the upper side. 



A singular aberration of the $, taken by Colonel Bowker near 

 D'Urban, Natal, in the year 1880, has all the markings of the fore- 

 wings, and a few of those of the hind-wings, dull-grc)/ and partly 

 transparent, instead of black and opaque. This is an unusually large 

 ^, expanding 2 in. 5 lin. A very small, normally marked $, taken in 

 the same locality by Colonel Bowker in August 1881, expands only 

 I in. 9 lin., and has the violaceous clouding very strongly developed. ; 



Larva. — Green ; a white stripe along each side above the legs ; 

 four spines of moderate length, set with hairs, on each segment from 

 second to twelfth ; only two spines on last segment ; head brownish- 

 red. (Javanese : described from the figure in Horsfield and Moore's 

 Gat. Lep. E. I. 0. Mus., 1857, P^- v. f 7.) 



Dark-brown ; the spines black. Traces of the whitish lateral stripe 

 on the five hinder segments. (Cingalese : described from the figure in 

 Moore's Lcpidoptera of Ceylon, 1881, pi. 31, f. i«.) 



Pupa. — Green, darker on the back, inclined to yellowish beneath. 

 Margin of wing-covers laterally edged with blackish. A dorsal series 

 of small pointed tubercular processes, apparently shining-blackish, 

 arranged in pairs from head to penultimate segment. (Javanese : 

 described from op. cit. sicj). f. yci). 



Yellowish-green ; margin of wing-covers white, edged on both 

 sides with crimson ; tubercular pointed processes white, ringed with 

 crimson at base. (Cingalese: described from op. cit. sup. 1881, f. la.) 



Pale-green. Eyes, a spot on back of head, inner and hind margins 

 of wing-covers, and dorso-abdominal pointed tubercular spots, silvery- 

 white edged with dark-red. (Natalian : described from a figure drawn 

 by Captain H. C. Harford.) 



The Javanese larva is described by Dr. Horsfield (ojj. cit. p. 152) 

 as feeding on a species of Ixora, and that of Ceylon by Mr. Moore as 

 eating Flacourtia, Salix, &c. As I have elsewhere noted (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 352), Colonel Bowker found the larva3 very 

 numerous in Basutoland on the native willow (Salix Garicpensis ?) ; but 

 he did not make any description of them. 



A. Phalantha varies considerably in size and tint (some of tlie female speci- 

 mens presenting a greenish tinge), and also in the size of the black spots. In 

 Mauritius (where I met Avith the species numerously) and in Madagascar the 

 examples known agree closely with Soutli-African ones, except that in the 

 former island they are usually smaller and with the discal black spots of the hind- 

 wings rather larger. Three from the Comoro Islands (Johanna), in the British 

 Museum, are also of small size, one of them having the ocelli on the under 

 side of the hind-wings rather strongly black-centred. In the Asiatic Region, 

 however, though the Cingalese examples are of small size (exp. al., 2 in. i|- 



