by J. A. O'Neil. 15) 
Both sexes, the male especially, show great variability in the amount 
of white scaling on the wings. 
As the moth is little known in South Africa, a short description of 
the wing upper-side may be useful. 
Fore-wing. <A broad basal bright ochreous-yellow patch, bounded 
on the costa and outwardly by a narrow black band, occupying the 
basal two-fifths of the cell, projecting triangularly into area lc, and 
narrowest in lb and la. Apex and hind-margin with a dull ochreous- 
yellow band from 6 to 8 mm. wide, narrowest between nervules 6 and 
4, and broadening towards the hind-angle where it is sometimes as 
much as 10 mm. wide. Beyond the basal ochreous patch the wing is 
densely covered with white scales, the white extending on the costa 
as far as the hind-marginal band, reaching the inner edge and middle 
of the lower margin of the large ocellus, then narrowing slightly to 
the inner margin. In the post-median and sub-apical areas the scales 
are dark reddish-purple or magenta. In many examples the outer 
part of the wing is thinly dotted with white scales, and in two males 
the pure white area reaches from the basal patch to the hind- 
marginal band. Ocellus broadly oval; hyaline patch outwardly 
rounded, inwardly rectangular. Outer ring of ocellus white or 
(rarely) light pink and very narrow, then a much broader dark 
crimson ring, and within this a narrow black ring bounding the 
hyaline patch. Across the wing, and interrupted by the ocellus, there 
is a sinuous dark reddish-purple transverse band, inwardly angulated 
between nervules 2 and Ib. 
Hind-wing. Dark or lighter mouse-grey, with a broad ochreous 
hind-marginal band similar to that of the fore-wing and bounded 
inwardly by a narrow and well defined or broader and diffused band 
of the ground-colour, on the inner edge of which is a white band, 
usually narrow, but sometimes moderately broad, and in one male 
example reaching as far as the ocellus. An irregular, somewhat 
diffused, narrow or moderately broad ante-median white band, bent 
inwardly at nervule 2 and wider thence to inner margin. Ocellus 
large, usually round but occasionally slightly oval, consisting of an 
outer narrow white (rarely pink) ring, and an inner, much broader 
ring of bright crimson within which is a large round black patch, 
sometimes slightly hyaline about its centre, owing to reduction of 
scales. 
In the fore-wing of the male the costa is more rounded towards the 
apex and the outer margin much more deeply concave between 
nervules 6 and 3 than in that of the female. 
