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"Sierra Leone ^' $ specimen, and except in their smaller 

 size, agree pretty nearly with an example from the Gold 

 Coast, given me by Mr. Swanzy. 



A single example forwarded from Maseru, does not 

 differ from South African specimens generally. The 

 species varies but little in the southern portion of its 

 range, the only aberrant individual that I have seen being 

 a $ (taken at St. Lucia Bay, by Col. Tower, of the 

 Coldstream Guards) in which, on the underside, the 

 hind-wings and the apices of the fore-wings are uniformly 

 clayey-ochreous, with a slight ferruginous tinge, and the 

 ordinary markings obliterated; the inner edge of the 

 transverse band of the hind-wings being defined by a 

 slightly paler line, and the five ocelli only indicated by a 

 row of faint fuscous dots. Judging from Cramer's 

 figures, and the Gold Coast specimen in my collection, 

 I am led to think it probable that, as far as the $ is 

 concerned, the Southern Clelia differs from the Western 

 tjrpe-form, on the upperside, in the greater width of the 

 sub-apical white bar, and the less distinct cellular red 

 striee of the fore-wings ; and in the more violaceous blue 

 spot, and more approxiroate marginal lunulate streaks 

 of the hind-wings : while on the underside, the colouring 

 of the hind-mngs presents a slight inclination to a reddish 

 tinge, the central fascia and the ocelli being very much 

 fainter and duller. 



A c? from Madagascar (presented to me by Mr. J. 

 Caldwell, of Mauritius) presents many characters in 

 common with both Southern and Western Clelia, but 

 differs from all the African specimens that I have 

 examined, in the remarkable narrowness of the sub-apical 

 bar of the fore-wings. 



Junonia Pelasgis. 



Vanessa Pelasgis, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. 820. 



Mr. Bowker writes that he pursued, and all but cap- 

 tured this species, on the summit of the Koesberg, near 

 the southern boundary of Basuto-land, in February, 

 1869. 



