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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTn-EAST AFRICA. 75 on radial nervules, thence widening and slanting inwardly as far as submedian nervure ; at median nervure, on each side of its second nervule, a good-sized terminal discocellular ochre-yellow spot, subquadrate, is completely confluent with inner edge of discal band ; below submedian nervure a very pale yellowish longitudinal streak from base meets termination of discal band. Hind wing : discal baud obliquely-transverse, broad, indented irregularly on both edges, beginning abruptly on 2nd subcostal nervule with its outer edge very near hind margin, and ending above submedian nervure not far beyond middle ; a longitudinal yellowish ray from base to hind margin, below submedian nervure, set with yellowish hairs ; in discoidal ceil a sparse clothing of yellowish hairs. Cilia broad, ochre-yellow, tinged with ferruginous in fore wing. UNDERSIDE.-Hind wing and apical hind-margined border of fore wing dull pale ochre-yellow ivith a tinge of olivaceous brown ; the former with a submarginal series of more or less reddish spots ivith dark edges. Fore wing : ground-colour pale ochre-yellow, fading into dull creamy towards inner margin ; from base a broad black longitudinal stripe, traversed by median nervure and a small part of its first nervule, abruptly truncate before middle; at a little distance beyond termination of this stripe, and immediately beyond extremity of discoidal cell, an equally conspicuous wedge-shaped black marking narrowed outwardly, between first radial and 3rd median nervules ; upper part of discal band of upperside indicated by thin interrupted fuscous edging lines, of which the long outer series defines the inner edge of the hind-marginal border as far as the 2nd median nervule, beneath which it abruptly expands into a broad fuscous or black marking extending to hind margin aud (diffusedly) to posterior angle. Hind wing : submarginal series consisting of five spots, of which the first, between costal nervure and 1st subcostal nervule, is remote from the rest, which lie contiguously in an almost straight line between 2nd subcostal nervule aud submedian nervure; these spots vary in their distinctness of tint from that of the ground-colour, are elongate-ovate, and are fuscous-edged both internally and externally without being completely ringed ; a similar spot at extremity of cell, a less distinct one immediately below it, and a small subbasal fuscous spot between costal and subcostal nervures ; at extremity of inner marginal fold, close to anal angle, a darker cloud, faint in two examples, but in the other two fuscous and conspicuous. 2 . Like male, but with the discal bands broader. U N D E R S I D E .- Father paler, with the black markings of the fore wing not so strongly developed. This species most resembles P. morantii, Trim., on the upperside, but on the underside of the fore wings exhibits a remarkable likeness to the darker examples of P. harona, Westw., in the black markings ; while the underside of the hind wings is altogether different from that of either of those species. The only palpus (that of a female) remaining shows the 3rd joint to be as in P. harona, long, slender, and erect. |
