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eyes (those of the Vanessa are hairy), and with fore wings but 

 slightly emarginate, and hind wings rounded and slightly 

 dentated. They are insects rather larger than Vanessa 

 UrticcB, of a black, brown, or occasionally greyish colour, 

 generally adorned with two eyes on the hind wings and one 

 towards the hinder angle of the fore wings. Several species 

 are common in every collection from the East Indies, such as 

 J. Lemonias — brown, the eyes with blue pupils, and standing 

 in reddish orange rings ; the fore wings are spotted with buff. 

 J. Laomedia is of a slightly iridescent grey, with transverse 

 zigzag brownish lines, and a row of rather small eyes beyond 

 the middle, of which two towards the tip and one towards 

 the anal angle of each wing are more distinct than the others, 

 and consist of an outer brow^n ring, an inner grey or buff one, 

 and a black pupil surmounted with orange. Another East 

 Indian species is J. Orithya, a rather smaller insect; the fore 

 wings black, with buff apical markings, and the hind wings 

 broadly blue towards the hind margin. The eyes consist of 

 two black rings, separated by a red one, and the inner one 

 nearly filled by a lilac spot. The African J. Clelia resembles 

 this, but is larger; the hind wings are black, with a very 

 large round blue spot at the base. The same character is 

 repeated in the African and Asiatic J. (JEnone, but the centre 

 of the fore wings and the marginal half of the hind wings 

 are filled up with pale orange, and the eyes are very small 

 and inconspicuous. J. Asterie and J. Almana are both 

 fulvous, with two eyes on each wing, that nearest the tip of 

 the hind wings being very large, purplish, marked with a 

 large black spot, surmounted by two small while ones, and 

 enclosed in a buff ring partly surrounded with black. J. 

 Almana is more angulated than Asterie ; the hind wings are 

 produced into a lobe at the anal angle, and the eyes of the 

 under side are very indistinct. The Australian J. Vellida is 

 brown, with the eyes very broadly surrounded with fulvous, 

 and the fore wings with two fulvous markings in the cell and 

 buff markings towards the lip. The South American J. 

 Lavinia closely resembles this, but is very variable, and 

 many of its varieties have received different names. J. 

 Coenia, from the Southern Slates, is of a light brown, with 

 the eyes surrounded with buff, and the first eye of the hind 

 wings as large as in Asterie and Almana. 



Precis, the largest genus of the present group, is African, 

 though a few are East Indian. The wings are generally 

 dentated ; the fore wings generally more or less angulated. 



