196 SOUTH- AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



59. (1.) Lachnoptera Ayresii, Trimen. 

 Plate III. fig. 5 (c?), fig- 5« ( ? )• 

 ^ $ Lachnoptera Ayresii, Trim., Trans. Eat. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 326. 



Exp. al, ($) 2 iu. 2-5 liu. ; (?) 2 iu. 5-7I lin. 



^ Warm fidvous-ochreous (a faint rosy-violaceous surface-gloss), 

 with fuscous marJdngs. Fore-iving : beyond middle a conspicuous 

 transverse bar from costa to third median nervule, exteriorly irregularly 

 dentated, interiorly suffused and emitting two linear rays (along costa 

 and subcostal nervure respectively) towards base ; about midway between 

 this bar and apex a similar much smaller bar, not extending below first 

 radial, exteriorly confused on costa with some narrow apical fuscous 

 clouding ; beyond middle, extending from fifth subcostal nervule to 

 submedian nervure, a somewhat irregular row of six variously-shaped 

 spots, of which the first (touching apical fuscous) and last are larger 

 than the rest, and about equal in size ; near hind-margin a well- 

 marked, strongly-lunulated streak, from just before apex to extremity 

 of submedian nervure ; between second radial and second median 

 nervules this streak is interiorly broadly sufi'used, so as to form a 

 conspicuous irregular marking ; a submarginal streak touching the 

 lunulated streak at extremities of nervules ; hind-margin itself un- 

 equally clouded with fuscous ; a very faint linear streak closing discoidal 

 cell, preceded by traces of another. Hind-vjvng : sexual badge glossy 

 leaden -grey, occupying costal - apical area, covering both subcostal 

 nervules, but not reaching radial or anywhere extending to edge of 

 wing ; about middle, disconnected traces of a thin transverse streak ; 

 beyond middle, an irregular row of four sublinear -lunulated marks, 

 preceded (between second median nervule and submedian nervure) by 

 two small rounded spots ; lunulated and submarginal streaks as in 

 fore- wing, but the former presenting no suffused marking ; hind-mar- 

 gin free from any fuscous clouding. Under side. — Soft ferrughious- 

 ochrcous, clouded with violaceous in i^rts ; the marJdngs chiefly fulvous- 

 ochrcous and inconspicuous. Fore-iving : inner marginal area, as far as 

 a little above first median nervule, pale yellow- ochreous ; all the mark- 

 ings corresponding to those of the upper side almost obliterated, except 

 the last spot in the transverse row, which is fuscous and conspicuous ; 

 in discoidal cell two irregular fulvous-ochreous rings ; beyond them, an 

 interrupted transverse streak of the same colour, meeting (between first 

 median nervule and submedian nervure) a similar interrupted streak 

 from costa a little beyond middle ; just above posterior angle a slight 

 hoary-grey clouding. Hind-wing : a fulvous-ochreous irregular streak 

 before middle, from costal to below submedian nervure ; a short linear 

 streak of the same colour closing discoidal cell ; about middle, an 

 indistinct similar transverse streak, bounded exteriorly by a siuuated 

 interrupted series of white spots ; these spots immediately succeeded 

 by some dusky violaceous clouding, which completely surrounds two 



