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blue pupil and red lunulej — tlie fourtli and fifth blackish only (rarely 
red-centred), very small, or sometimes altogether obsolete, — the sixth 
large, very distinct, containing a violet-blue pupilled red centre in a 
conspicuous yellovj ring ; beyond these, also between nervules, a row of 
thin, blackish, lunulate marks, from costa to anal angle, strongest in 
the thickest lunule being at anal angle, and in some specimens 
broadly suffused with blackish internally ; the thin, grey line of fore- 
iving continued obliquely across this wing to inner margin, a little 
before anal angle ; a blackish streak bordering hind-margin, which is 
also thinly irrorated with blackish atoms. Undek side. — Falcr^ glisten- 
ing somewhat irridescent, but 7vitliO'ut the rich lustre of up]peT side ; 
UacJdsh marldngs reduced to very tliin lines and dots; thin line crossing 
both wings distinct and black. Fore-iving : two pale, slightly pinkish, 
thinly black-edged, rather broad, transverse stripes, from costa before 
middle to just above submedian nervure, where the outer hlach edging 
of the stripe nearest middle meets the thin black line from costa, 
forming a spot, while its i7iner edging forms a similar spot with the 
outer black edging of the stripe nearer base ; on the inner side of the 
thin transverse line, a minute irroration of black atoms, and bordering 
it externally is a whitish, pink-tinged stripe ; spot near apex in the 
same position as on u]_i])er side, but jJtt/e-^/^/Zo'zr,', with a violet-pupilled 
red centre, and in a thin black ring ; spot ahove first median nervule 
also of these colours, and conspicuous, but spot helow that nervule 
small and not clearly marked ; hind-marginal row of spots represented 
by a very thin, wavy, often interrupted line ; a slight, j;«/c-&r<9?('?i?'s^ 
tinge on hind-marginal edge. Ilind-iuing : marked very similarly to 
fore-wing ; only one indistinct pale band before middle, not defined on its 
inner side ; a rather large elongate whitish spot in discoidal cell near 
its extremity ; blackish irrorations, bordering inner edge of black 
transverse line, more thickly sprinkled than in fore-iving ; only two 
ocellated spots visible, more conspicuous than those in fore-uAng^ but 
of the same colours, situated respectively between second subcostal 
and discoidal nervules, and between first and second median nervules. 
Mr. H. Dmce [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875, p. 409) [observes that Mr. 
Monteiro's specimens from Angola were " smaller than those from Natal, with 
a much deeper pink gloss.'' 
This large and splendidly -coloured butterfly has a wide range across Tropical 
Africa, and seems to find its southern limit in Natal. At D'Urbau, in that 
Colony, it is a common species in the summer months, and, during my stay from 
January to April 1867, 1 observed and captured many examples. The flowers 
of Lantana were its favourite resort in the Botanic Garden, and it was not 
unusual to see six or eight on a single bush. I often noticed one perched on 
the leaves of trees at some height from the ground, keeping its head outward 
and its wings erect, and occasionally I found a female at rest on the under 
surface of a leaf Avith her wings hanging downward. Among scattered bushes 
or in roads about wooded spots Anacardii is fond of sporting at about eight 
or ten feet from the ground, floating about with fully expanded Avings ; and 
it is then that the full beauty of its glittering wings is most apparent. On 
