Africa, Southern -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Africa, Southern
The female (or rather the reputed female) of this species here figured
differs from the male in having a large orange patch at the extremity
of the fore wings, which are white with a slight yellowish tinge; a
minute discoidal black dot and a curved row of brown spots within the
orange mark, those towards the costa being most indistinct; the inner
margin of the orange mark is also brownish, as is the apex itself and
the apical margin, the brownish margin terminating near the hinder
angle in a brownish spot; the hind wings are uniformly white, with the
extremity of the veins towards the outer angle more or less dusky. On
the under side the orange spot of the fore wings wants both the inner
and apical dark edging, and bears a curved row of brown spots; the hind
wings are very pale fleshy buff, and very delicately freckled, with
a bar of darker brown extending from the middle of the costa to the
median vein, where it is curved backwards; there is also a brown dot
on a small whitish spot near the extremity of the discoidal cell. The
female varies from 1¾ to 2¼ inches in the expansion of the fore wings.
Taken at Tati.
23. (13) CALLOSUNE EVENINA, Wallengren, Lep. Caffr. p. 12;
Trimen, p. 322, and in Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, t. 6, f. 11.
One specimen (locality not noted), with the black markings on the upper
surface of the wings much less diffused than in the figure given by
Mr. Trimen; possibly a male. Another specimen in Burchell’s African
collection, in the Hopeian Museum, has the large dark spot on the fore
wings extending over the discoidal cell, but the hind wings are almost
unspotted.
24. (14) CALLOSUNE EIONE, Boisduval, p. 578.
One broken specimen, without locality, is very closely allied to the
insects noticed above, as _C. Antigone_.
25. (15) CALLOSUNE PSEUDETRIDA, Westw.
Alis supra pallide flavescentibus, apice fusco cum serie subapicali
macularum 6 aurantiacarum, puncto minuto nigro discoidali, nubilaque
parva fusca ante angulum posticum; alis posticis serie marginali
macularum conoidearum fuscis (versus angulum analem interdum obsoletis)
nubila parva pone medium costæ, fasciaque valde abbreviata pone medium
disci versus angulum externum, pallide fuscis: alis anticis infra
pallide flavescentibus, apice alisque posticis luteo-albidis; anticis
striga obsoleta et obliqua fuscescenti versus apicem, posticis punctis
duobus fuscescentibus pone medium disci versus angulum externum.
Expans. alar. antic. unc. 1, lin 5.
Affinis _C. Deuræ_, Klug, et præsertim _C. Etridæ_ (Indiæ orientalis
incolæ).
Habitat prope Tati.
_Obs._ The orange subapical spots in the male are dilated into a
broader yellow fascia in the female.
26. (16) CALLOSUNE WALLENGRENII. (Plate E, figs. 3, 4.)
_Callosune Wallengrenii_, Butler, MS. in British Museum.
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