102 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



JUNONIA ORTHOSIA. 

 (Plate XIX., Fig. \) 



Vanessa orthosia, Godart, Enc Meth., i.w, p. 821 (1823); 



Lucas, Le"pid. Exot., p. 116, pi. 59, fig. 3 (1835). 

 Papilo orithya, (nee L.) Cramer, Pap. Exot., iii., pi. 281, figs. E, 



F; iv.j pi. 290, figs. C, D (1780). 



This is a brown Butterfly, about two inches in expanse, with 

 the outer half of the wings inclining to buff or yellowish, the 

 colour forking towards the costa of the fore-wings. There are 

 two eyes in the sub-marginal region of each wing, which are 

 black, with large white pupils on the fore-wings, and surrounded 

 with tawny rings ; on the hind-wings they are much larger, the 

 pupils are varied with blue and white, and the outer rings are 

 reddish, with a narrow black rim. Towards the hind-margin 

 are two or three black lines ; and on the costa of the fore- 

 wings are two tawny stripes, bordered with black. The under- 

 surface, as usual, is paler. 



This Butterfly is found in Amboina. Some of the North 

 American species ofijanonia closely resemble it in the unusually 

 large eyes. It is also allied to the East Indian and African 

 J. orithya (Linn.), which has blue hind-wings. 



GENERA ALLIED TO JUNONIA. 



Ethiopian Region. 



Although several species of Junonia closely allied to, if not 

 identical with, Indian species, are found in Africa, yet the most 

 plentiful of African Butterflies of the Vanessa group are the 

 species of Precis (Hiibner) ; a genus, however, which is dis- 

 tinguished by very slight characters. The wings are generally 

 more or less deeply concave on the hind-margin, commencing 

 with a projection below the tip, sometimes slightly marked, 

 and sometimes forming a strong tooth ; there is also usually a 



