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third segment, and a short pair on the twelfth. The pupa is 

 green, with scattered golden dots. 



GENUS AMAURIS. 



Amauris, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 14 (1816); Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 226 ; Schatz, Exot. 

 Schmett., ii., p. 83 (1SS6); Trimen, South African Butter- 

 flies, i., p. 56 (1887). 



DanaiSy Sect. 1, Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 89 (1847). 

 Type Papilio niavius (Linn.), from West Africa. 



AMAURIS NIAVIUS. 



Papilio niavius, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 470, no. 76 

 (1788); id., Mus. Ludov. Ulr., p. 253 (1764); Clerck, 

 Icones, pi. ^2, f. 2 (1764) ; Cramer, Pap. Exot., i., pi. 2, figs. 

 F,G.(i 77 5). 



Da/iais niavia, Godart, Enc. M£th., ix., p. 182, no. 22 (1819). 



A large black species, over three inches in expanse, with 

 large bluish-white sub-apical spots on the fore-wings, and a 

 great part of the hind-wings filled up with the same colour. 

 It is a West African insect, its South African representative 

 {A. domiiiicaniiSy Trimen) being larger, with more extended 

 white markings. 



Amauris is a genus of small extent, entirely confined to 

 Tropical and Southern Africa. The species are of moderate 

 size (two to four inches across the wings), and are of a rich 

 dark brown, with white or ochreous spots. We have figured a 

 species belonging to the closely-allied genus or sub-genus 

 Nebroda (Moore), lately described from Matabele Land by Miss 

 Emily M. Sharpe, and named after the barbarous but un- 

 fortunate king of that country. It differs from the common 

 South African N. echeria (Stoll) by the great extent of the 

 pale central part on the hind-wings. 



