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the band itself) as far as first median nervule, — and outioardly by an 
ill- defined, blackish streak, which always becomes obsolete towards 
costa, about second subcostal nervule ; beyond band, two transverse 
rows of dull-blackish, sublunular marks, edged, the first exteriorly^ the 
second interiorly ^ with metallic glistening- whitish, thin rays of which, 
between nervules, in some places unite the two rows ; between second 
and first median nervules, these two rows unite almost ivliolly^ forming 
a large, imperfect, steely ocellus, black-ringed, and with a pale-blue 
pupil in its outer half ; a similarly coloured, but larger, and perfect 
ocellus, bipupillate with blue, succeeds at anal angle ; around it, and 
bordering hind-margin, for the greater part, is a yellow-ochreous space ; 
hind-margin narrowly bordered with a black edging, which is very 
thinly edged with whitish inwardly and outwardly. 
$ Like hut somewhat duller and paler (the fore-wing with a 
brownish tinge) ; common transverse white hand considerahly hroader in 
hind-wing and near inner margin of fore-wing ; hind-marginal lunules 
of hind-wing whitish. Under side. — As in 3^, but the common white 
band broader, and the markings beyond it not so distinct. 
The variety which M. Oberthur has named C. Junius appears to 
be proper to Abyssinia. I have not seen it ; but its distinguishing 
feature is in the colour of the common transverse band, which is stated 
to be pale-yellow instead of white. 
Larva. — Bright yellow-green (covered with minute yellow granules) ; 
second and last segments of a much duller green than the others. On 
each side of back a row of cuneiform yellowish marks, broad anteriorly, 
and deflected upward and posteriorly, narrowing to a point before hind- 
edge of the segment. On seventh segment a yellow-circular dorsal 
marking with a brown centre. Head light-green ; the frontal horns 
short and tipped with cobalt-blue, — the two outer horns shorter than 
the two middle ones ; mandibles light-blue tipped with black. (W. D. 
Gooch, M.S. description and outline drawing of Natalian larva, 1874.) 
Captain H. C. Harford, who also observed the larva in Natal, saw 
the ova deposited on the leaves of the Seringa {Melia azedarach)^ and 
noted that they were at first pale-yellow, but became in a few hours 
reddish-brown. From an egg that was watched on a leaf out of doors 
the larva was hatched on the eighth day after its deposit. It was 
brownish- green, with the head and horns brown, and the caudal pro- 
cesses very long and curved inward. After the first moult, it was 
dark olive-green, with a slight indication of a pale spot on the back of 
the seventh segment ; the head being of a darker brown, but the horns 
lighter at the tip ; while the anal processes were light ashy-grey. 
After the second moult, it became dark-green minutely irrorated with 
white, and showed the whitish spot on the seventh segment much more 
distinctly ; the head was larger in proportion to the body, and pre- 
sented an ochreous line running along the sides and along outer edge 
of the horns. After the third moult, it remained of the same dark- 
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