234 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



D. Kalfraria Proper. — Basliee and Tsoino Rivers, and Butterworth (/. 



H. BowJcer). " Ibeka " (F. N. Streatfeild). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Mapumulo. 



h. Upper Districts. — Intzutze River. Little Noodsberg. Great 

 Noodsberg. Hermansburg. Greytown. Pietermaritzburg. Est- 

 court (/. M. Hutchinson). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom {T. Ayres). 



IL Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi River {Rev. H. Rowleij) — Coll. Hope, 



Oxon. 

 hi. Interior. — Mashunaland [F. C. Selous). " Kilima-njaro [H. H. 



Johnston).^' — F. D. Godman. 



73. (8.) Precis Archesia, (Cramer). 



Papilio Archesia, Cram., Pap. Exot., iii. t. ccxix., fF. d, e (1782). 

 Vanessa Archesia, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 316, n. 47 (1819). 

 Junonia Archesia, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 133, n. 80 (1862). 



Exp. al., 2 in. 4 lin. — 2 in. 5 lin. 



Warm-brown, with a tinge of ochreous; fore-iving loith cellular hlue 

 strice ; a dull-red land crossing hoth wings. Fore-wing : three bluish, 

 slender, transverse striae edged with black in discoidal cell ; a broader, 

 sometimes ill-defined, inwardly black-edged, bluish streak from costa 

 just beyond extremity of cell; a whitish- violaceous stripe from costa 

 beyond middle becomes merged, on third median nervule, with a dull 

 ochreous-red band parallel to hind-margin ; this red band commences 

 on costa, close to apex, with a narrow macular streak of dai'k-red 

 (sometimes half-obliterated) ; a row of seven pale-bluish spots — all 

 conspicuously white-centred except the first (and rarely the fifth) — 

 parallel to hind-margin, four spots being before the dark-red streak 

 from costa, and three in the red band ; bordering hind-margin are 

 two more or less distinct, lunulate, blue streaks ; fringe dull-whitish, 

 spotted with brown at extremities of nervules. Hind-iving : dull-red 

 band, continuous of that in fore-wing, completely crosses wing from 

 costa to inner margin a little before anal angle, and contains five small, 

 bluish-white, black-ringed spots, between first subcostal and third 

 median nervules ; a slightly darker shade externally bounds red band ; 

 and a dark-brown, dentated streak runs near and parallel to hind- 

 margin ; anal angle irrorated with pale-blue scales ; fringe as in fore- 

 wing, but the brown marks not so distinct. Under side. — Dark-hrown 

 (varied ivith lighter-broivn, and crossed hy transverse greyish fasciae) to 

 beyond middle of both loings ; where, in place of the dull-red band of 

 the upper side, is a whitish-ochreous one — the iomer fork of the band, 

 on costa, being the whitest portion — tinged with reddish or ochreous, 

 particularly in hind-wing, and generally ill-defined outwardly ; the row 



