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peculiar to Madagascar, and a third confined to it and tlio neighbouring 

 Mascarene Islands. It is the Anacardii section that has the widest 

 range through the region ; and two of its members reach Natal, where 

 the finest perhaps of all — Anacardii itself — is numerous in the coast 

 country. 



I can find no record of the larva, except a brief note by M. 

 Vinson respecting that of the Malagasy S. Duprmi ( Voyage a Madagas- 

 car, 1865, p. 574), which he mentions as "white, in length 5-2- centi- 

 metres, covered with branched spines." 



78. (1.) Salamis Anacardii, (Linn.) 



Papilio Anacardii, Linn., Mas. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 236, n. 55 (1764) ; and 



Syst. Nat., i. 2, p. 758, n. 74 [part] (1767). 

 Papilio Parrhasus, Dru., 111. Nat. Hist., iii. pi. iv. ff. i, 2 (1782). 

 Vanessa Aglatonice, Godt., Euc. Meth., ix. p. 299, n. 8 (18 19). 

 Protogoniomorpha Anacardii, AVallgrn., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. HandL, Lep. 



Rhop. Caffr., p. 24 (1857). 

 Junonia Anacardii, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 141, n. 85 (1862). 



Exp. cd., 3 in. 5 lin. — 4 in. 3 lin. 



Very pale greenish or greenish-white, sJiot loith a hrilliant rosy-violet 

 lustre, more vivid in $, giving a ^^ mother-of-pearl "-like aspect to the 

 wings ; spotted and margined tvith Uackish. 



Fore-wing : costa thinly powdered with minute blackish atoms to 

 slightly beyond middle, where commences a narrow, blackish edging, 

 rapidly widening to apex, where it forms a rather broad bordering ; 

 hind-margin also bordered with blackish, which, wide at apex, gradually 

 narrows to anal angle, where it is sometimes very indistinct ; from sub- 

 costal nervure are two short, transverse, thin, slightly waved streaks, 

 one crossing discoidal cell about its middle, the other closing cell ; 

 from first subcostal nervule, a little beyond extremity of cell, is a third 

 streak to first median nervule ; these three streaks are all liable to be 

 very indistinct, or even ohliteratcd in their lower portion, but the streak 

 heyoncl cell is always continued to inner margin about middle by a very 

 faint, thin, grey line ; near apex, between the two discoidal nervules, a 

 rounded blackish spot, sometimes united to apical blackish ; two other 

 black spots beyond middle, one above, the other below, first median 

 nervule, — the upper spot the larger, and centred with violet-blue 

 (which centre is sometimes edged inwardly by a red crescent) ; two 

 blackish dots, between this ocellate spot and the blackish spot near 

 apex, complete the transverse row of spots ; close and parallel to hind- 

 margin, a row of larger or smaller blackish spots, between nervules, 

 sometimes united to hind-marginal blackish. Hind-iving : beyond 

 middle, parallel to hind-margin, between costal nervure and first 

 median nervule, a row of six black spots, of which the first and second 

 are of moderate size and not ocellate, — the third larger, with violet- 



