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appear to turn up in the dense jungle of the hottest parts of Africa, 

 but seems to be confined to the more open lands, where thistles grow. 

 In the more than ioriy years in which I have been receiving collections 

 from tropical Africa I never have obtained specimens of "The Painted 

 Lady" from such places as the Ogove Valley, or the swampy palm-clad 

 savannas along the big rivers; but, on the other hand, it has often been 

 received from the sandy coastal ridges, and the higher grass-lands of both 

 the western, the eastern, and the southern parts of the continent. 



Vanessula Dewitz 



(115) 1. Vanessula milca (Hewitson) 



Liptena milca Hewitson, 1873, Exot. Butt., V, Pentila and Lipiena, PI. ii, fig. 17. 

 Vanessula milca Aurivillius, 1913, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 227, PI. Liie. 



Nine specimens captured at Medje from July to September. 

 This pretty little insect is very common in the valley of the Ogove, 

 and apparently swarms in southern Cameroon. 



JuNONiA Hiibner 

 I deem it more natural to associate under the term Junonia a 

 number of species which for many years past have been placed in this 

 genus, but which Dr. Aurivillius in his recent writings has incorporated 

 into the genus Precis. 



(116) 1. Junonia orithya madagascariensis Guenee 



Junonia orithya \ a*-, madagascariensis Guenee, 1865, Vinson's Voy. Madgr., Lep., 



p. 37. 

 Precis orithya Aurivillius, 1913, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 226. 



This is the African form of the insect originall}^ named from the 

 East Indies by Linnseus (cf. Mus. Ulr., 1764, p. 278). The collection 

 contains thirteen males and one female, all taken at Faradje and 

 Niangara in November 1910, or else labelled " 1911-1912." 



(117) 2. Junonia clelia (Cramer) 

 Papilio clelia Cramer, 1775, Pap. Exot., I, p. 23, PI. xxi, figs. E, F. 

 Precis clelia Aurivillius, 1913, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, p. 226, PL li«. 



Twenty-three males and fifteen females were taken. Two males and 

 one female were caught at Kwamouth in July 1909. Two males and 

 one female were captured at Pawa, October 1910. Eight males and 

 four females are labelled as taken at Medje from April to August 1910. 

 Eleven males and nine females were caught at Niangara in November of 

 the latter year. 



