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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
93. (3.) Euralia deceptor, (Trimen). ... - 
Plate VI, fig. 3 { ? )• 
^ Diadema deceptor^ Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1873, p. 105. 
Exp, al, ($) 3 in. 3^ lin. ; (?) 3 in. i lin. 
J Black, with white {very slightly j^i'^^^^^-fflossed) markings. Fore- 
luing : costa dusted with pale-bluish scales near base ; a small rounded 
spot in discoidal cell near base ; an irregular oblique central bar, con- 
sisting of a narrow cellular stripe and a large ovate patch, lying mainly 
between second and first median nervules (but extending slightly above 
the former and considerably below the latter nervule) ; a narrow sub- 
apical stripe of three spots, extending from a little below costa to 
third median nervule (the lowest spot largest) ; a small spot near apex, 
and a similar one near anal angle, just above submedian nervure. Hind- 
iving : in basal region a large, sub-rotundate patch, not reaching base, 
and scarcely extending above subcostal nervure, but spreading indistinctly 
to inner margin, and projecting outwardly between radial and third 
median nervules ; outer edge of patch indented by black between 
nervules ; a submarginal row of four minute whitish spots, between 
first subcostal and second median nervules, — that nearest costa less 
indistinct than the rest ; beyond them, but towards anal angle, very 
faint traces of a hind-marginal, lunulate, whitish streak. Under SIDE. 
— Hind-wing, and costal and ajncal harder of fore-iving, pale, glossy, 
greyish-lrown. Fore-wing : violaceous-pink lustre over white mark- 
ings more observable than on upper side ; three additional white spots 
at base ; subapical stripe commencing on costa with a broad white 
mark ; brown border commencing at base, extending widely along 
costa, so as to cover upper portion of discoidal cell (irrorated with 
whitish scaling on each side of costal nervure), and occupying apical 
region to below extremity of third median nervule ; some faint whitish 
irroration on costa near apex j ust above white spot ; and some (rather 
stronger) at lower extremity of subapical stripe ; a double row of hind- 
marginal white lunules ; a blue tinge over the black ground-colour, 
especially on the edges of the large central marking, of the anal- 
angular spot, and of a minute spot above latter. Hind-wing : basal 
lobe dull-white ; this dull-white extends beyond precostal nervure ; 
an orange dot and a white dot at origin of costal and median nervules 
white patch duller than on upper side, larger and more irregular in 
outline, widening so as to occupy inner margin to its edge as far as in 
a line with end of abdomen, and emitting a conspicuous ray upward to 
apex from between the subcostal nervules ; from outer angle of patch 
there extends some dense whitish irroration, on each side of third 
median nervule, as far as hind- marginal lunules ; five distinct dots in 
submarginal row ; two rows of hind-marginal lunules, thin, distinct, 
almost continuous throughout. 
Palpi and legs of the same greyish-brown as the under side of 
hind-wings and of great part of the fore-wings. 
