Africa, Southern -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Africa, Southern
Alis supra albis; anticarum apice late aurantiaco; puncto discoidali,
striga angulata guttarum fuscarum pone medium apiceque fusco, intus ad
venas angulatim producto; alis posticis pone medium fascia abbreviata
e maculis fuscis formata, margineque postico fusco-maculato. Expans.
alar. antic. unc. 1⁵⁄₁₂.
Habitat ad ripas Touani fluv.; mense Augusto capta.
The wings on the upper side are white, with a slight yellow tinge, the
apical half being of a fine orange-red colour; the base is suffused
with brown scales; a round black dot is placed at the extremity of the
discoidal cell, in front of which the costa is dusky; half way between
the cell and the apex is an oblique row of four brown spots, succeeded
by a larger one, extending more towards the base of the wing, which is
followed by a double spot towards the middle of the hind margin; the
apical margin is brown, which colour extends upwards along the veins,
forming a row of brown teeth, the largest of which is at the end of the
first branch of the median vein; the hind wings are powdered with brown
scales at the base; beyond the middle of the wing is a curved row of
brown spots, extending from the costa to the middle, and with a row of
brown spots along the outer margin. On the under side the fore wings
are suffused with orange, preceding the row of subapical spots, the
apical portion being buff, which is also the colour of the hind wings,
which have a white spot in the centre surrounded by a brown ring, and
followed by a curved row of pale brown spots, rather more dilated and
somewhat ocellated in the middle of the row; the apical margin of all
the wings is destitute of the brown markings of the upper side.
27. (17) CALLOSUNE RAMAQUEBANA, Westw. (Plate E, figs. 5, 6.)
Parvus alis supra albis, albo-ciliatis anticis plaga maxima fusca
marginis postici, puncto nigro discoidali, apiceque late fusco,
serie macularum fulvarum inclusa; alis posticis basi fuscis, margine
postico late fusco, serie macularum albarum plus minusve confluentium,
præsertim versus angulum analem, inclusa: alis subtus flavido-tinctis,
posticis puncto minuto discoidali nigro, flavo supra tincto. Fœm. supra
absque colore fulvo. Expans. alar. antic. unc. 1⅓.
Habitat prope Ramaqueban fluv.; mense Februario capta.
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