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band, a transverse row of five ocellated spots, of different sizes, black, 
in tliin, yellow-ochreous rings, with glistening violet-blue centres 
pupilled with white, extending from second subcostal nervule to anal 
angle ; of these ocelli, the second is sometimes wanting, and always j ' 
small when present, — the fifth, at anal angle, being always hipupillate, | 
with scarcely a tinge of the blue central colouring, but in a complete i 
yellow-ochreous ring. Cilia of both wings pale creamy-yelloiv ; brown- 
chequered in fore-wing^ only partly so in hind-wing. Under side. — 
Paler and duller in colouring, but the surface more glossy and smooth ; \ 
yellow-ochreous markings much paler, especially in hind-ioing. Fore- I 
wing : in and beyond middle of discoidal cell, a broad, transverse, short, 
pale-yellowish bar, rather widely black-margined both internally and 
externally ; basal portion, and hind-margin from apex, p)aler than rest 
of ground-colour, the latter including two thin, parallel, dark streaks j- 
from apex, becoming obsolete a little above anal angle. Hind-wing: 
of the same hue as base and apex of fore-wing ; two irregularly zigzag, 
black, transverse striae before middle, from costa to submedian nervure 
or a little below it ; on costa, hetiveen the two striae, a more or less j 
distinct, very pale, yellowish spot, occasionally obsolete or nearly so ; 1 ■ 
discoidal cell closed by a short, black streak ; pale transverse band 
edged internally with a sharply-defined, black streak ; ocellated spots 
very different from those on iqjjjer side, more equal in size (the second , 
spot wanting, but a large additional ocellated spot between first and |i 
second subcostal nervules), their violet, white-pupilled centre very ' 
small, surrounded by dull-golden, black, and pale-yellow rings in a 
more or less defined, black outer circle ; of these ocelli, the first three 
are similar, the fourth has a large black centre edged with violet on 
its inner rim, the fifth has a black, bipupillate centre without violet, 
and its rings are half-obliterated outivardly ; immediately beyond the 
fourth ocellus is an oblong space of glistening-violet scales ; from apex, 
two parallel blackish streaks extend along hind-margin, the inner one I 
ending in the patch of violet scales just described, the outer one reach- I 
ing anal angle. Cilia of wings paler than on upper side. 
$ Slightly duller and paler in colouring, with hroader markings ; 
the hlue in ocelli of hind-wing purer than in with scarcely any 
violet reflection. Fore-ioing : in discoidal cell, near its extremity, a j 
yellow-ochreous bar, similar in size and shape to that on under side of 
$ (this marking is sometimes half obliterated). Hind-iving : second 
ocellus always ivanting, but in some specimens the traces of an addi- j 
tional ocellus between first and second subcostal nervules are visible. ■ 
Under side.' — Like that of ^, but the markings generally Iroader and 
paler. | 
The early stages of Tidhaghia were discovered at Highlands, near 
Grahamstown, by Mrs. F. W. Barber, who in 1864 sent me drawings 
of them, and a dead specimen of the pupa, from which the following 
descriptions were made. j 
