( 5)1 ) 



and allies, Vanessa, Antanartia, etc. The pnlvillns is rednceJ. In P. carye 

 and rirgiiiiensis the claw-segment is similar in structnie, but the paron3'chinm 

 is distinctly fringed and the claw is a little more curved, the pnlvillns heing, 

 moreover, less reduced. The tenth abdominal tergite of the S is simple in 

 cardui and allies, deeply sinuate in atalaiita. The cell of the hindwing is 

 closed (Schatz erroneously rejn-esents that of Vanessa pob/cldoros as open, in 

 Fam. ^- Gatt. Tag/, t. 16). 



6 (?(?, ^ ¥¥ from: Harar, 28 & 30. iv. 00; Ganda Amuma to Ganda 

 Koro, Argobba, 19. v. 00; Djidda to Oborussa, 2800 m., 21. vii. 00; Managascha, 

 Schoa, 15. ix. 00; Tschalleba, Schoa, 10. xi. 00; Tnksuki River, 28. xi. 00; 

 Habela to Alata, Sidamo, 12. xii. 00. 



Many of the species of the genus Precis have been nuts too hard to crack 

 for the systematists of the old school. Since we have had to work through it 

 in order to identify the species contained among Oscar Neumann's material, we 

 have thought it advisable to publish the result of this research here. The genus 

 is well worth a monograph. 



15. Precis orithya madagascariensis. 



Junonla orijthia var. mmhigascariensisGuenve, in Vins., Voy. Ma(laij.,Ins.p. 37 (1805) (Madagascar). 

 Precis orltliya var. niadtii/asciiriensin, Aurivillius, I.e. p. 135. n. 1 (1891)) ; Pagenst., I.e. p. 139. 

 n. 1. (1902). 



5 c?c? from : Harar, 3. & 28. iv. 00; Luku, Sheikh Hussein, 21. vi. 00 ; Akaki, 

 Schoa, 12. viii. 00; Schoa, 17. xi. 00. 



In one of the Harar specimens the upper ocellus of the hindwing is absent, 

 and the posterior one reduced to a small black spot ; in the Luku example the 

 upper ocellus of the right hindwing is small and black, while that of tlie left 

 hindwing has develojied to a large bluck patch. A J from Bogos (Hansal) in the 

 Felder collection is distinguished by the absence of orange spots in the cell of 

 the forewing on the upperside, and by the enlargement of the upper ocellus of 

 the hindwing, this ocellus being almost twice the size of the posterior one on 

 both hindwiugs and nearly quite black. The individuals from Abyssinia and 

 Somaliland have less extended orange markings in the basal half of the under- 

 side of the forewing than the specimens from other places of Africa. 



16. Precis clelia clelia. 



Papilin Nynijihalis (iemmaius cUlia Cramer, /'k/j. E.i:. i. p. 33. t. 21, f. ¥..¥. (1775) (W. Africa). 

 Precis eleliii, Aurivillius, /.,■. n. 2 (18',)9) ; Pagenst., I.e. n. 2 (19l)2). 



" cJc?, 2 ? ? from : Harar, 3. & 28. iv. 00; Ganda Amuma to Ganda Koro, 

 Argobba, I'J. v. 00; Ganda Koro, Argobba, 20. v. 00; Zuai Lake, 24. xi. 00; 

 Banka to Omo, Is. ii. 01 ; Dalba to Umu R., Konte, 28. ii. 01 ; Gelo R. to 

 Akobo Ii., V. 01. 



The specimens do not differ from other African ones. The ocelli of the 

 upperside of the hinilwing are sometimes obliterated. 



The blue pafcli on \\w upperside of the hindwing is in the ? of clelia of 

 a more purplish tint than in the S , and disa]ipeii,rs sonictinics almost completely. 

 This hai)])ens not only iji Madagascar specimens, but also in continental African 

 ones. The iMdiviilinils from Madagascar (/-". ctcliii cpiclclia) havr in lioth sexes 



