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size, but the hind margin of the fore wings is nearly entire, 
and is slightly concave below the middle. It is brown, and the 
fore wings are marked with an orange band, running from the 
middle of the costa obliquely to the hinder angle; outside this, 
the wing is black, with a white spot towards the tip. The orange 
band is replaced by a reddish one beneath; and the red colour 
extends nearly to the base. The hind wings are brown, with a 
zigzag black line near the base, and two others towards the 
hind margin; between these are four black rings, placed two 
and two. 
There is a small African genus, Crenis, which represents 
Eunica. They expand two inches, or a little more or less. The 
fore wings are rather long, which makes the hind margin some- 
what oblique; and the hind wings are slightly scalloped. They 
are brown or tawny, with the costa and tip of the fore wings 
black ; sometimes the upper side is uniform dark brown, or 1s 
shot with violet-purple. The under side of the hind wings has 
always a more or less conspicuous, though continuous and regular, 
row of small eyes, but otherwise differs considerably; thus, that 
of C. Drusius of South Africa (the smallest species) is marbled 
nearly as in an Hipparchia, with the eyes well marked; that of 
C. Madagascariensis is silvery grey, the eyes being hardly visible; 
and that of the beautiful violet C. Amulia, from West Africa, 
is orange yellow, with the eyes, and two broken transverse black 
lines nearer the base, bordered with bluish grey. 
The large South American genus Hunica contains a number 
of species varying from one anda half to nearly three inches in 
expanse. ‘They are nearly all brown or velvety black, often more 
or less suffused with blue, purple, or violet, sometimes on the 
fore wings only, sometimes on the hind wings only, and some- 
times on both; or the colour may be confined either to the base 
or to the borders of the wings, and is sometimes confined to the 
male. Many species are spotted with white on the outer half of 
the fore wings; and #. Margarita differs from all the rest in 
being silvery white above, instead of brown or purple, with the 
tip broadly black, spotted with white, and a double row of 
marginal dark spots on the hind wings, the outer ones round, 
and the inner ones securiform. The outline of the wings is very 
various, but 1s generally dentated ; and the tip of the fore wings 
is frequently truncated. The under side of the hind wings is 
