i6o SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
continuing to submedian nervure, a row of six large, elongate, some- 
what wedge-shaped, orange-ochreous spots, of which the fifth and sixth I 
are internally bordered with black. Hind-iving : pinldsli-ivhite ; the j 
basal black assumes the form of an irregularly-shaped but strongly- 
defined black patch, containing six quadrate or triangular small white | 
spots ; costa at base rather broadly edged with salmon-red, containing 
a more or less conspicuous black spot ; outer edge of basal patch is also i 
clouded with salmon-red ; spots in central part of wing arranged as 
above ; two additional ones continue the transverse row to inner 
margin ; these spots are very conspicuous from the white ground- 
colour they are on ; hind-marginal band broad and black, containing 
seven or eight moderately-sized white spots ; the band being bordered 
inwardly by a row of seven sub-triangular, brick-red spots. 
$ Much duller^ suffused with a brownish tint ; the Mack markings 
not so dark, especicdly the hasal Mack, which is reduced to a fuscous 
suffusion^ often indistinct. Fore-wing : more or less semi-transparent 
in middle portion ; subapical ochreous paler, yellower, occasionally 
partly clouded with white. Hind-ioing : any white sufi*usion about 
middle of wing rarely found ; hind - marginal border considerably 
narrower, its inner portion indistinctly defined, so that its row of 
spots is usually in contact with the somewhat darker ground-colour. 
Under side. — As in ^. 
The black markings in this species vary much in size, especially 
the oblique costal bar of the fore-wing, which is sometimes so enlarged 
as to be completely confluent with the streak at end of discoidal cell. 
In the Hewitson collection there is a small $ from the White Nile 
(mentioned in Exot. Butt., iii. p. i6), which has the border of hind- 
wing very broad, and the white spots which it contains on the under , 
side very small. A fine $ taken by Colonel Bowker on the Bashee 
River in Kaffraria has the basal black almost as pronounced as in 
the $ ; in the fore-wing the apical and hind-marginal blackish is much 
widened and suffused, with only indistinct traces of the ochreous spots, 
and the space beyond costal black bar is narrowed and yellowish- white ; 
while in the hind-wing the hind-marginal border is even, complete, 
and well-defined from the ground-colour, the row of small pale spots 
traversing its middle line. 
Larva. — Ochreous-yellow. Each segment broadly banded trans- 
versely with purplish-red, the band occupying the middle portion. 
Spines long and distinctly branched, blackish, springing from tubercles 
situated in the purplish-red bands ; the two dorsal spines on segment 
next head longer than the rest, erect. Head ochreous-yellow. Legs 
and pro-legs purplish-red. 
"Feeds on Passiflora'' (Dr. J. E. Seaman, in litt.) 
Plate I. fig. i . 
Pupa. — Pinkish- white. Margins of head, limbs, and wing-nervures ! 
defined with black. Abdominal rows of spots arranged as in pup« of j 
