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orange or yellow preceding it. Fore-wing : disco-cellular spot larger 
and rounder than in $ ; inner-marginal stripe moderately broad, vary- 
ing from pale-grey to blackish, — its truncate extremity always blackish, 
and often emitting a short thin upward streak, — its basal portion often 
more or less thinly diffused over discoidal cell. Hind-iving : costal 
stripe rather ill defined and diffused, — its blackish extremity almost 
separate, elongate, forming the commencement of the ordinary angu- 
lated discal ray, which is usually obsolete or obsolescent between second 
subcostal and radial nervules, and sometimes so near inner margin also ; 
basal dusky-grey suffusion usually tilling greater part of discoidal cell, 
and extending below it to beyond middle ; hind-marginal black spots 
very variable in development, sometimes scarcely larger than in but 
usually much more soj — especially the three superior ones, which occa- 
sionally coalesce into a short border. Under side* — Fore-ivi7ig : apical 
patch darker than in J, being more densely freckled, the traversing 
ray of the upper side reproduced in dusky grey ; base faintly tinged 
with yellowish ; disco-cellular spot well defined ; inner-marginal stripe 
fainter and narrower, except at extremity. Hind-iuing : pinkish-creamy 
or yellowish-creamy, more closely striolated and freckled generally than 
in $ ; incomplete discal ray faintly indicated in brownish. 
Larva. — Dull reddish-sandy above, with a broad dull-grey median 
longitudinal stripe, interrupted on middle of each segment by a large 
quadrate purplish-black spot. Sides superiorly whitish, lower down 
greyish-sandy, and inferiorly (with legs, ventral surface, and head) 
dark-brown. General surface very sparsely set with very short white 
hairs. Dorsal surface minutely shagreened with raised whitish dots, 
but also with a number of considerably larger and more prominent 
deep gamboge-yellow dots, in transverse rows of six and two on each 
segment. 
(Described from a single specimen, advanced towards pupation, re- 
ceived from Colonel Bowker in August 1887, which pupated on 25th.) 
PuFA. — Very pale ochreous-yellow, with a slight reddish tinge 
over all the lower surface. On back, a median and two lateral grey 
longitudinal streaks, — each of the latter bounded interiorly by a yel- 
lowish-white line ; between median and lateral streaks, on each side^ 
two rows of more or less distinct small blackish spots ; mixed with 
these some minute greyish speckles. Wing-covers and leg-covers here 
and there finely streaked with grey, the former with a row of minute 
black dots near hind-margin. Abdomen inferiorly with a median and 
two lateral dark-grey longitudinal streaks. Length, 9 lin. ; depth (from 
back to bulge of wing-covers), 3 lin. 
(Described from two specimens received from Colonel Bowker 
(D'Urban, Natal) in August 1887, resulting in $ imagines on the 
23d and 25th respectively.) 
The pupa formed by the larva above described produced a $ 
imago on 14th September. It was more brightly and deeply coloured 
