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and occasionally almost hooked, and the hind wings often 

 produced at the anal angle. We rarely meet with large eyes, 

 as in Ju/wnia, though sometimes with a row of small ones 

 towards the hind margins of the hind wings. The beautiful 

 blue P. Rhadaina of Madagascar, however, has eyes placed 

 as in Junonia. The species of Precis are generally brown, 

 sometimes almost without paler markings, but they are gene- 

 rally banded with some shade of fulvous, and occasionally 

 marked with blue or red. The species are too numerous 

 to describe in detail. The beautiful brown and fulvous 

 Thaleropis Ionia, from Asia Minor, is allied to this genus. 



Rhinopalpa is a Malayan genus, including a few large 

 species, three or four inches across the wings. The fore 

 wings are angulated and almost hooked, and the hind wings 

 are nearly square, with a strong projection in the middle. 

 R. Polinice is fulvous, with black borders, and R. Sahina dark 

 brown, with a broad tawny band across both wings, and a 

 large spot near the tip of the fore wings. 



The African genus Salamis resembles this in size and 

 shape. S. Anacardii, a remarkable iridescent butterfly, is at 

 once the commonest and the best known species of the genus. 

 Napeocles Jucunda, the only South American species allied 

 to Junonia, is a large black insect, with hooked fore wings 

 and rounded hind wings, a broad blue band across the 

 centre of all the wings, and a blue spot near the tip. 



NOTES ON ACIDALIA CONTIGUARIA. 



By S. J. Capper. 



I SPENT the month of July, 1874, at Llanfairfechan, North 

 Wales, devoting every spare hour to the collecting of Lepi- 

 doptera, in which pursuit 1 was assisted by two or three of 

 my sons and my late friend Mr. Alfred Owen. On returning 

 from Penmaenmawr one evening we were pleasantly surprised 

 on opening our pill-boxes to find a specimen of Acidalia 

 coniigtiaria. This species had then become, as we believed, 

 almost extinct. Mr. Greening, of Warrington, who had been 

 in the habit of breeding the insect, had lost all his larvje. 

 The source of Mr. Greening's specimens was, 1 believe, one 

 fertile female, captured near Bangor. At the lime of which 

 I now write we were about to leave Llanfairfechan in a few 

 days, so we devoted our time to the "most diligent search, and 

 were fortunate in obtaining a \'ew more specimens. 



