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witli other hind- marginal markings, are thinly expressed in greyish or 
reddish-brown) dull-violaceous, more or less varied with the pale ground- 
colour, and containing four ill-defined small ocelli, black-centred, with 
rufous-brown and pale yellow-ochreous rings, answering to the black 
spots of the upper side. 
A singular aberration of the $^ taken by Colonel Bowker near 
D'Urban, Natal, in the year 1880, has all the markings of the fore- 
wings, and a few of those of the hind- wings, dull- grey and partly 
transparent, instead of black and opaque. This is an unusually large 
^, expanding 2 in. 5 lin. A very small, normally marked taken in 
the same locality by Colonel Bowker in August i 8 8 i , expands only 
I in. 9 lin., and has the violaceous clouding very strongly developed. ■ 
Larva. — Green ; a white stripe along each side above the legs ; 
four spines of moderate length, set with hairs, on each segment from 
second to twelfth ; only two spines on last segment ; head brownish- 
red. (Javanese : described from the figure in Horsfield and Moore's 
Cat. Lep. E. I. C. Mils., 1857, pi. v. f 7.) 
Dark-brown ; the spines black. Traces of the whitish lateral stripe 
on the five hinder segments. (Cingalese : described from the figure in 
Moore's Lepidoptera of Ceylon, 1881, pi. 31, f. la.) 
Pupa. — Green, darker on the back, inclined to yellowish beneath. 
Margin of wing-covers laterally edged with blackish. A dorsal series 
of small pointed tubercular processes, apparently shining-blackish, 
arranged in pairs from head to penultimate segment. (Javanese : 
described from op, cit. sup. f. ya). 
Yellowish-green ; margin of wing-covers white, edged on both 
sides with crimson ; tubercular pointed processes white, ringed with 
crimson at base. (Cingalese: described from op. cit. sup. 1881, f. la.) 
Pale-green. Eyes, a spot on back of head, inner and hind margins 
of wing-covers, and dorso-abdominal pointed tubercular spots, silvery- 
white edged with dark-red. {Natalian : described from a figure drawn 
by Captain H. C. Harford.) 
The Javanese larva is described by Dr. Horsfield (op. cit. p. 152) 
as feeding on a species of Ixora, and that of Ceylon by Mr. Moore as 
eating Flacourtia, Scdix, &c. As I have elsewhere noted (Travis. Ent. 
Sac. Land., 1870, p. 352), Colonel Bowker found the larv£e very 
numerous in Basutoland on the native willow (Salix Gariepensis ?) ; but 
he did not make any description of them. 
A. Phalantha varies considerably in size and tint (some of the female speci- 
mens presenting a greenish tinge), and also in the size of the black spots. In 
Mauritius (where I met with the species numerously) and in Madagascar the 
examples known agree closely with South-African ones, except that in the 
former island they are usually smaller and with the discal black spots of the hind- 
wings rather larger. Three from the Comoro Islands (Johanna), in the British 
Museum, are also of small size, one of them having the ocelli on the under 
side of the hind-wings rather strongly black-centred. In the Asiatic Eegion, 
however, though the Cingalese examples are of small size (exp. aL, 2 in. if- 
