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SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
witli dull-red, and marked with two small black spots; a third small 
black spot at base, below median nervure ; basal ground-colour pale- 
yellowish ; near base a double row of black spots (enclosing an inter- 
rupted dull-red band, widest near costa), composed of four in inner 
row and five in outer row ; the latter bound the inner edge of median 
band, while the outer edge is more regularly indented on the nervules 
than on upper side ; beyond median band the whole of the broad 
hind-marginal border is marked as in fore-wing, but more vividly, and 
the outer extremities of the hastate fulvous inter-nervular rays are of 
the same pale-yellow as that of median band. 
$ Similar, but rather duller and paler. Fore- wing : subcostal and 
median nervures more broadly red, sometimes conspicuously so; disco- 
median patch more narrowed inferiorly, scarcely passing submedian 
nervure and not reaching inner margin. Hind-wing : median band 
less prominent externally in upper portion; on hind-margin often a 
row of six or seven usually ill-defined fulvous or fulvous-yellowish 
inter-nervular spots. Under side. — As in 
Var. a. — Only subapical bar of fore-wing pale yellow ; the disco- 
inedian patch of fore-wing and the hand of hind-wing dull-fulvous ; the 
former of these two latter markings emitting a ray towards base. 
Hah. — Zambesi (Hewitson Collection). 
Larva. — Bluish-green with yellow-ochreous longitudinal lines and 
transverse bands. Head and segments two, three, and four, yellowish- 
brown. Longitudinal lines three, a dorsal and two subdorsal ones. 
From the transverse band on each segment arise the spines, which 
are rigid and of moderate length, black on the second, twelfth, and 
thirteenth segments, yellow-ochreous on the rest. The band is marked 
on each side with a bluish-green subdorsal spot and a black spiracular 
ring. ^ || 
Feeds on a woolly, fleshy-leaved weed like a Lamium, common in I 
clearings. 
Pupa. — Whitish-green, with the usual pattern of the markings 
slightly marked, the dorsal markings more pronounced than the 
others. 
Mr. W. D. Gooch, from whose pencil sketches and notes the above descrip- 
tions are made, states that these larvse are very abundant near Spring vale, on 
the Natal Coast, and that there are three broods in the year. They are 
gregarious, and when young fasten leaves together with silk, feeding on the || 
under side of the leaves. The pupal state usually lasts during ten days, but \ 
sometimes only seven days. 
This species, founded by Hopffer on a single example from Inhambane, 
is allied to Bonasia, Fab.,! and Cyrithius, Drury, but more closely to the 
^ I have examined the Fabrician type-specimen in the Banksian Collection in the British 3 
Museum, and find that Cramer's Eponina i {Pap. Exot., t. cclxviii. ff. A, b) quite agrees < 
with it. The butterfly given by Cramer {I. c. fF. c, d) as Eponina ? (see text of vol. iii. 
p. 138) is evidently a distinct species, being indeed the ? Serena, Fab. In both cases the 
Fabrician names have priority. 
