58 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
spicuous wMte spots at base, close to thorax ; inner and outer row of 
hind-marginal spots botli white and conspicuous, arranged in pairs 
between nervules, — between third median nervule and submedian 
nervure there are three spots in the inner row, and four in the outer. 
Fringes of both wings white-dotted. 
Yar. A. 3^ and $ {Albimaculata, Butl.) — All the spots in fore- 
iving 'pure white. Under side paler ; the ground-colour of hind-wing 
and apical portion of fore- wing pale-'bTOion. Hah. Natal, almost to 
exclusion of type-form. 
Wallengren {Lep. Rhop. Caffr.^ p. 20, in Kongl. Sv. Vetens.-Akad. 
Handl.j ii. pt. iv., 1857) notes a " KaflPrarian" specimen in Wahlberg's 
collection, belonging to this variety, in which the outer hind-marginal 
row of white spots on the under side was entirely wanting. 
Yar. B. — Spots very small throughout, slightly tinged with 
yellow. Hind-wing patch unusually small, pale-yellow. Hab. Fer- 
nando Po (Lieut. E. Bourke, R.N.) 
The species most nearly allied to A. Echeria is A. Egialea (Cram.), a native 
of "West Africa, known to inhabit Sierra Leone, Cape Palmas, and Ashanti. 
Echeria is readily distinguished by the whole of its markings being smaller 
and less transparent {especially the spot in the discoiclal cell of fore-wing), and 
by the small and luell-defined yellow ha^id of the hind-wing, the corresponding 
marking in Egialea beginning quite close to the base, and externally very 
gradually shading off into the brown ground-colour. 
A. Phadon (Fab.), inhabiting Mauritius, is also a close ally, but its mark- 
ings are, on the other hand, sriudler than those of Echeria (with the excejDtion 
of the hind-marginal spots, which are larger), and the yellow hand of the hind- 
wing is totally different, being a rather straight and even har across outer area 
of the iving. 
Larva. — Black, with narrow blue and orange longitudinal stripes. 
Median dorsal stripe, from 5tli to 13th segment, very narrow, bright- 
blue ; subdorsal lateral stripe interrupted, yellow-orange ; spiracular 
stripe (superior) interrupted, pale-orange, (inferior) festooned on each 
segment, yellow-orange. Spiracles faintly ringed with light-blue. 
Skin slightly rugose. Head smooth, black. Five pairs of rather 
short, divergent, subdorsal black filaments, springing respectively from 
the 2nd, 4th, 6th, i ith, and 1 2th segments. 
Food-plant not known : two specimens found in clearing bush. 
Pupa. — Thick, short, gibbous, moderately angulated. Shining 
silvery-golden ; the angles and points defined with markings of red 
and black. 
Attached by the tail only ; imago disclosed on the sixteenth day. 
(The foregoing descriptions of larva and pupa are drawn up from 
Mr. W. D. Gooch's notes and pencil drawings of specimens observed at 
Little Umhlanga, near D'Urban, Natal, in October 1873.) 
Like most of the Danaince, this butterfly is rather gregarious, and the 
males are far more frequently met with than the females on the wing. It is 
strictly confined to woods and copses, and gardens immediately adjacent to 
