Butterjlies of SoutheriL Africa. 331 



Very closely allied to E. Hippomene (Hiibn.),* and to 

 the butterfly described and figured under the same name 

 by BoisduA^al, in his " Faune Entomologique de Mada- 

 gascar, &c.," p. 43, pi. 8, figs. 3, 4. In outline and 

 marking, E. SchcBneia would appear (judging from Bois- 

 duval's work only, for I have no examples of the Masca- 

 rene species) to be more intimately related to Boisduval's 

 insect than to its South African congener, the true Hiy- 

 pomene of Hiibner. From the latter, SchcEneia is best 

 distinguished by (1st) the very much longer {and ferrugi- 

 nous instead of black) tails of the hindwings; (2nd) the 

 narrower (especially in hindwings) and more deeply- 

 coloured yellow bands ; (3rd) the two suffused transverse 

 black streaks on disc of hindwijigs, which are wanting in 

 Hippomene ; and, as regards the underside, by (4th) the 

 costa of forewing near base being faintly dusted with 

 bluish scales instead of conspicuously barred with whitish; 

 (')th) the decidcdlg ferruginous and lilac-glossed general 

 colouring; and (6th) the absence in hindwings of both 

 the costal white patches and the tAvo or more ocelli in 

 superior half of discal region. 



Bab.— Cape Colony: Bathurst (Plant, 1870); King 



William's Town (Col. J. H. Bowker, 1872 



and 1876, and J. P. Mansel Weale, 1877). 



Kafirland : Bashee River (Col. J. H. Bowker). 



Natal: D'Urban (J. Sanderson, 1867, C. 



Morland, 1859, and W. D. Gooch, 1874). 

 Transvaal: Potchefotroom (Skill, 1876), Ley- 

 denburg District (T. Ayres, 1879). 



Genus JuNONiA, Hiibner. 

 Junonia Boopis, sp. nov. 



Junonia Orithyia (Linn.), Wallengr. K. Sv. Vet. — 

 Akad. Handl. 1857, p. 27, n. 1. Trimen, Rhop. Afr. 

 Aust. ii. p. 327 (1866). 



Exp. ah (<?) 1 in. 9^ lin.— 2 in. 1 lin.; (9)2 in. 1—3^ 

 lin. 



$. Black; hindwing mostly shining violaceous-blue; 

 forexcing with sub-apical creamy -ichitish oblique bar. 



* Hypanartia Hi}} pome lie, Hiibn., Samml. Ex. Schmett. ii. pi. 25 



(1800); 



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