Genus Junonia 
to be only a subvariety of the well-known Pyrameis indica , 
which is common in India, southern China, and Japan. Away 
off in southeastern Africa, upon the peaks and foot-hills which 
surround the huge volcanic masses of Kilima-Njaro, Kenia, and 
Ruwenzori, was discovered by the martyred Bishop Hannington 
a beautiful species of Argynnis, representing a genus nowhere 
else found upon the continent of Africa south of Mediterranean 
lands. Strange isolation this for a butterfly claiming kin to the 
fritillaries that sip the sweets from clover-blossoms in the Bernese 
Oberland, in the valleys of Thibet, and on the prairies of the 
United States. 
Genus JUNONIA, Hiibner. 
(Peacock Butterflies) 
Butterfly. —Medium-sized butterflies, with eye-like spots upon 
the upper wings. Their neuration is very much like that of the but¬ 
terflies belonging to the genus Pyrameis , to which they are closely 
allied. The eyes are naked, the fore feet are scant¬ 
ily clothed with hair, and the lower discocellular 
vein of the fore wing, when present, does not ter¬ 
minate on the arch of the third median nervule be¬ 
fore its origin, as in the genus Vanessa , but imme¬ 
diately at the origin of the third median nervule. 
Egg. —Broader than high, the top flattened, 
marked by ten vertical ribs, very narrow, but not 
very high. Between the ribs are a few delicate 
cross-lines. 
Fig. 98.—Neura- Caterpillar. —The caterpillar is cylindrical, 
tion of the genus t h e segments being adorned with rows ofbranch- 
Junoma. ® & . 
ing spines and longitudinally striped. 
Chrysalis. —The chrysalis is arched on the dorsal surface and 
marked by two rows of dorsal tubercles, concave on the ventral 
side. The head is slightly bifid, with the vertices rounded. 
There are eighteen or more species which belong to this genus, 
of which some are neotropical, but the greater number are found 
in the tropical regions of the Old World. Three forms occur 
within the limits of the United States, which have by some au¬ 
thors been reckoned as distinct species, and by others are regarded 
merely as varietal forms. 
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