124 RiioPALocERA afric.t: australis. 



not white-striped near base ; and on that of hind-wing a strongly-angulated, 

 pale-ochreous streak completely crosses wing a little beyond middle. Bois- 

 duval states, also, that the female insect does not differ from the male ; but, 

 however this may be ia the individuals inhabiting Mauritius and Bourbon, 

 the sexes in South Africa present numerous diiferences, as described above. 

 This Butterfly strikingly resembles the European P. Atalanta, but is in- 

 ferior in beauty to that fine species, the ochre-yellow bands but poorly 

 replacing the bright-scarlet of the "Red Admiral." The latter, however, 

 does not possess the tails on the hind-wings, that give a peculiar appearance 

 to P. Hippomene. I twice saw this insect at Knysna, and on each occasion 

 in the woods, but was unable to capture it. It appears to have been com- 

 mon in that district in the summer of 1859 — 60, as I have received a fine 

 series of specimens taken by a correspondent there, who has kindly fur- 

 nished me with the following note of its habits : " Common. Flying over 

 cabbage and turnip beds in garden. October — April." 

 " Woods — May and June." — D'Urban, in litt. 



Natal (C.Morland). Knysna(MissWentworth). — Coll.mihi. 

 Butterworth, Kaffraria (J. H. Bovvker).— Coll. S. A. Mus. 

 Graham's Town. King William's Town, British Kaffraria. 

 —Coll. W. S. M. D'Urban.* 



*' Bourbon and Mauritius." — Boisd. 



Genus JUNO N I A. 



Junonia, Hiibn. 

 Vanessa, Fah., Godt. 

 Salamis, Boisd. 



Imago. — Head of moderate size : eyes smooth, prominent ; 

 palpi rather long, sharply pointed, ascending, generally con- 

 vergent, scaly, sometimes more or less hairy ; antennas, of 

 moderate length, generally with a rather short, abruptly- 

 formed club (in /. Cloantha, however, very gradually-formed). 

 Thorax robust, ovate, rather sparingly clothed with hairs. 

 Wings large, broad, variable in outline. Fore-wing : costa 

 more or less arched, sometimes very strongly so ; apical por- 

 tion more or less produced, sometimes very prominent, with 

 a strong projection on hind-margin at extremity of first dis- 

 coidal nervule ; hind-margin always more or less dentate and 

 emarginate, with, in many species, a considerable projection 

 at extremity of third median nervule ; inner-margin nearly 

 straight, or slightly emarginate about centre ; discoidal cell 

 generally closed by a slender nervule. Hind-wing : costa 

 strongly arched at base, and more or less so throughout ; 

 hind-margin always more or less escalloped, sometimes simply 

 rounded (without any marked projections), sometimes with a 

 more or less elongate production of anal angle, and occasion- 



* "Port Elizabeth : not very common."— D'Urban, in litt. 



