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Pupa. — About |- incli long. Chalky- white, with a faint yellowish 
tinge. A series of very fine linear black markings along dorso-thoracic 
ridge. Antennae and wing-nervures faintly indicated by delicate linear 
black markings. Five rows of abdominal black spots, viz., two dorsal, 
two lateral, and one ventral ; these markings are sometimes slightly 
tinged with orange, and the dorsal ojies on the first three segments of the 
abdomen are cons].ncuously orange, Uaek-edgcd, tubercidar, and pointed. 
At anal extremity three looped black marks. Head very slightly 
bifid. Thorax prominently angulated at bases of wing-covers, and 
with a pair of smaller projections posteriorly. Duration of pupal state 
eight days. 
Plate I. fig. 2a. 
Mr. J. P. Mansel Weale, from whose drawings and notes the fore- 
going descriptions of the larva and pupa are drawn up, writes that in 
some specimens kept in a dark box all the resulting pupge were pale- 
ochreous, with the black and orange markings much intensified. Of 
seven imagines bred in I 873, Mr. Weale wrote that the first, second, 
and sixth that came out were of the form with all the bands yellow ; 
the fourth with yellow bands, except the subapical bar of the fore- 
wings, which was white ; the fifth with all the bands white ; and the 
third and seventh with brick-red bands and yellow subapical fore- 
wing bar. 
The type-form of P. Escbria is by its brick-red coloration well 
distinguished from its congeners of similar size and pattern. The 
species is, however, nearly related to P. flara (Dewitz), P. Carmentis, 
Doubl., and P. Lijeoa (Godt.), as is apparent on comparing with these 
butterflies from Western Africa the yellow-banded and white-banded 
examples of Esehria. P. flava is wholly yellowish-banded (judging 
from Dewitz's figure ■^), but has in fore-wing a very broad subapical 
patch instead of a narrow bar, and a much paler under-side colouring. 
In P. Carmentis all the bands are pure white, as in many $ s of the 
variety of Esehria, but the great development of the markings of the 
fore-wing (where the broad subapical bar irregularly joins, or almost 
joins, the enlarged inner-marginal patch), and, on the contrary, the 
considerably narrower hind-wing band, render the former very distinct. 
The markings of P. Lycoa are also wholly white, bat semi-transparent ; 
and in the fore-wing, instead of an inner- marginal patch, there is an 
oblique discal bar, of an inner large and outer small spot, almost 
parallel to the subapical bar. 
The only near ally in South Africa that has hitherto been found is 
P. Aganiee (Hewits.), but this is a much larger insect, and at once to 
be recognised by having only one pale marking in the fore-wing, viz.. 
^ Nov. Act. K. Leop.-Car.-Dcutscli. Alcad. No.turf., xli. 2, pi. xxv. f. 10 (1879). 
