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peculiar to Madagascarj and a third confined to it and the neighbouring 
Mascarene Islands. It is the Anacardii section that has the widest 
range through the region ; and two of its members reach Natal, where 
the finest perhaps of all — Anacardii itself — is numerous in the coast 
country. 
I can find no record of the larva^ except a brief note by M. 
Vinson respecting that of the Malagasy Diiprcei ( Voyage d Madagas- 
car, 1865, p. 574), which he mentions as "white, in length 5^ centi- 
metres, covered with branched spines." 
78. (1.) Salamis Anacardii, (Linn.) 
Papilio Anacardii, Limi., Mas. Lud. Ulr. Reg., p. 236, n. 55 (1764) ; and 
Syst. Nat., i. 2, p. 758, n. 74 [part] (1767). 
rapilio Farrhasus, Dru., 111. Nat. Hist., iii. pi. iv. ff. i, 2 (1782). 
Vanessa Aglatonice, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 299, n. 8 (1819). 
Protogoniomorplia Anacardii, Wallgrn., K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., Lep. 
Rhop. Caffr., p. 24 (1857). 
Junonia Anacardii, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 141, n. 85 (1862). 
Exp. cd., 3 in. 5 lin. — 4 in. 3 lin. 
Verg pcdc greenish or greenish-white, shot with a hrilliant rosy-violet 
lustre, more vivid in giving a " mother-of-pearl ''-like aspect to the 
wings ; spotted and margined with Uacldsh. 
Fore-wing : costa thinly powdered with minute blackish atoms to 
slightly beyond middle, where commences a narrow, blackish edging, 
rapidly widening to apex, where it forms a rather broad bordering ; 
hind-margin also bordered with blackish, which, wide at apex, gradually 
narrows to anal angle, where it is sometimes very indistinct ; from sub- 
costal nervure are two short, transverse, thin, slightly waved streaks, 
one crossing discoidal cell about its middle, the other closing cell ; 
from first subcostal nervule, a little beyond extremity of cell, is a third 
streak to first median nervule ; these three streaks are all liable to be 
very indistinct, or even oUiterated in their lower portion, but the streak 
heyond cell is always continued to inner margin about middle by a very 
faint, thin, grey line ; near apex, between the two discoidal nervules, a 
rounded blackish spot, sometimes united to apical blackish ; two other 
black spots beyond middle, one above, the other below, first median 
nervule, — the upper spot the larger, and centred with violet-blue 
(which centre is sometimes edged inwardly by a red crescent) ; two 
blackish dots, between this ocellate spot and the blackish spot near 
apex, complete the transverse row of spots; close and parallel to hind- 
margin, a roAV of larger or smaller blackish spots, between nervules, 
sometimes united to hind-marginal blackish. Hind-iving : beyond 
middle, parallel to hind-margin, between costal nervure and first 
median nervule, a row of six black spots, of which the first and second 
are of moderate size and not ocellate, — the third larger, with violet- 
