286 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



93. (3.) Euralia deceptor, (Trimeu). 

 Plate VI., fig. 3 ( ? ). 

 ^ Diadema deceptor, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 105. 



Exp. al, ($) 3 in. 3I lin. ; ($) 3 in. i lin. 



^ Black, with white (very slightly pink-glossed) markings. Fore- 

 wing : costa dusted with pale-bluisli scales near base ; a small rounded 

 spot in discoidal cell near base ; an irregular oblique central bar, con- 

 sisting of a narrow cellular stripe and a large ovate patch, lying mainly 

 between second and first median nervules (but extending slightly above 

 the former and considerably below the latter nervule) ; a narrow sub- 

 apical stripe of three spots, extending from a little below costa to 

 third median nervule (the lowest spot largest) ; a small spot near apex, 

 and a similar one near anal angle, just above submedian nervure. Hind- 

 loing : in basal region a large, sub-rotundate patch, not reaching base, 

 and scarcely extending above subcostal nervure, but spreading indistinctly 

 to inner margin, and projecting outwardly between radial and third 

 median nervules ; outer edge of patch indented by black between 

 nervules ; a submarginal row of four minute whitish spots, between 

 first subcostal and second median nervules, — that nearest costa less 

 indistinct than the rest ; beyond them, but towards anal angle, very 

 faint traces of a hind-marginal, lunulate, whitish streak. Under SIDE. 

 — Hind-iving, and costal and apical border of fore-wing, pale, glossy, 

 greyish-brown. Fore-wing : violaceous-pink lustre over white mark- 

 ings more observable than on upper side ; three additional white spots 

 at base ; subapical stripe commencing on costa with a broad white 

 mark ; brown border commencing at base, extending widely along 

 costa, so as to cover upper portion of discoidal cell (irrorated with 

 whitish scaling on each side of costal nervure), and occupying apical 

 region to below extremity of third median nervule ; some faint whitish 

 irroration on costa near apex just above white spot; and some (rather 

 stronger) at lower extremity of subapical stripe ; a double row of hind- 

 marginal white lunules ; a blue tinge over the black ground-colour, 

 especially on the edges of the large central marking, of the anal- 

 angular spot, and of a minute spot above latter. Hind-wing : basal 

 lobe dull-white ; this dull-white extends beyond precostal nervure ; 

 an orange dot and a white dot at origin of costal and median nervules 

 white patch duller than on upper side, larger and more irregular in 

 outline, widening so as to occupy inner margin to its edge as far as in 

 a line with end of abdomen, and emitting a conspicuous ray upward to 

 apex from between the subcostal nervules ; from outer angle of patch 

 there extends some dense whitish irroration, on each side of third 

 median nervule, as far as hind- marginal lunules ; five distinct dots in 

 submarginal row ; two rows of hind-marginal lunules, thin, distinct, 

 almost continuous throughout. 



Palpi and legs of the same greyish-brown as the under side of 

 hind-wings and of great part of the fore-wings. 



