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discoidal cell larger and blacker tlian on upper side ; ^ badge con- 
spicuouSj being centred ivitli luliite. Cilia of both wings as on upper side. 
Var. A. (Alcippus, Oram.) ^ and 
Disc of hind-wing more or less widely suffused with ivhite^ particu- 
larly on upper side. 
Yar. B. (Borippios, Klug), $ and 
Black and luhite of apical portion of fore-iving wanting, replaced hy 
the red-ochre ground-colour ; hind-marginal black of both wings blurred, 
and its white spots obsolete on upper side. General colour duller and 
paler than in type-form. Disc of hind-wing often suffused with white, 
as in Alcippus. 
Aberration. — Uxp. al., 2 in. lo lin. 
In fore-wing, the costal spots, the sub-apical bar as far as third 
median nervule, and (less completely) the small separate spot at junc- 
tion of ground-colour and apical black, imitcd into one hroad, rather 
suffused, white marking, which extends a little into discoidal cell and 
narrowly along costa to before middle, leaving a thin black streak 
closing the cell. 
Hah. — King William's Town (M. E. Barber, August 1870). In 
the collection of K. Trimen. 
Lakva. — Pale bluish-grey ; on the back transversely barred with 
bright pale-yellow and streaked with black. Yellow bar on front of 
each segment from 3rd to i 2th (both inclusive), edged with black both 
anteriorly and posteriorly, and usually divided mesially by a short 
black streak uniting the black edges ; three thin black streaks across 
each of these segments in its middle and posterior portion, and three 
similar streaks also on 2nd and last segments ; front of head with 
a black horseshoe-shaped streak ; spiracular stripe bright-yellow, rather 
suffused ; legs bluish-grey barred with black. Three pairs of moder- 
ately long, black, flexible filaments, springing from the back of the 3rd, 
6th, and i 2th segments respectively, in each case from near the ex- 
tremities of the transverse yellow bar ; all these filaments are crimson 
just at the base, and the front pair longer than the others. Length, 
I in. 6-9 lin. 
Food - plants : Gomphocarpus fruticosus and other Asclepiads. 
" Near Grahamstown on Gomph. fruticosus, E. Meyer ; in Trans-Kei on 
Ceropegia BarlercB, Harvey " (M. E. Barber). " Near King William's 
Town on Stapelia sp." (J. H. Bowker). 
Pupa. — Semi-transparent ; either green or pinkish, and sometimes 
of a tint including both hues. A raised golden spot on each eye, at 
the base of the wings, and about the middle of the costal edge of the 
wings ; also two similar spots on each side of back of thorax. On fourth 
segment of abdomen, dorsally and laterally, a thin blackish tuberculated 
ridge, edged posteriorly by a continuous row of golden dots. Attached 
to twigs of the larva's food-plant. Usual period of development into 
imago, fourteen to twenty days. 
