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of moderate width, containing seven rounded inter-nervular spots of a 
tint varying from pale-yellovvisli to the red ground-colour (some of 
these spots, and often most of them, join the ground-colour, the black 
festooned line inwardly bounding them being very thin and in places 
obliterated). Under side. — Fore-iving : similar, but much paler in 
tints. Ilind-iving : imU creamy -yellowish ; the black spots very con- 
spicuous, those near base more separate than on upper side, being less 
suffused ; a brick-red patch at base close to costa, and a margin of 
the same colour running round wing from just before apex to anal 
angle, and thence to base ; hind-marginal border more perfect than on 
upper side, the yellowish spots in it round and conspicuous. 
5 Faint oclircy -reddish^ sometimes dingy pale-ochre oils. Fore-wing : 
pattern and markings similar, but in the paler specimens almost her eft 
of colour^ and very transparent. Hind-vjing : black spots similarly 
arranged ; in the redder specimens often a blackish suffusion beyond 
the extremity of discoidal cell, but not reaching hind-marginal band ; 
in the latter the spots are usually conspicuous from their pale-yellowish 
tint. Under side. — Quite similar to that of J, hut paler. 
Palpi yellow, thickly set with black hairs. Collar with a yellowish 
spot ; pectus with five white spots, on each side. Thorax and back of 
abdomen black ; the latter fuscous beneath, and with a lateral row of 
reddish spots, gradually increasing towards tip. These spots more 
developed in the which has also a subdorsal row of four or five very 
small similar spots on each side of terminal half of abdomen scarcely 
visible in the 
Aberration. — $ In hind-iving all the basal and discal spots are 
enlarged and confluent, so that nearly the whole surface is hlack. 
Hal. — Pembroke Farm, near King William's Town (Miss Agnes 
Bowker, 1873). In the collection of the South- African Museum. 
The size and even number of the spots in this species vary very 
much as regards the hind-wing, some examples having them very large 
and well developed throughout, and others presenting very few and 
minute spots. The specimens having (like the <J figured by Cramer, 
loc. cit.) three spots in the fore-ioing are not common. 
Larva. — About i^ in. long; with strong branched spines. Didl 
hrowiiish-ochreous, closely striped with hlack transverse streaks : the in- 
cisions of segments and a line down the back pale-ochreous ; a broad 
ochreous band, not crossed by the black streaks, on each side, above the 
legs, which are of a bright shining yellow ; head shining-black. On 
the second segment are two, and on the last four black branched 
spines ; on each of all the other segments, six similar spines. Feeds 
on Kiggelaria Africana (a tree not uncommon about Cape Town) and 
in gardens on Passiflora cmrulea^ Tacsonia magnifica^ and other pas- 
sion-flowers. 
Pupa. — About |- in. long, rather slender ; head blunt, hardly bifid ; 
lateral angles at bases of wing-covers prominent and acute ; back of 
