DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF JUNONIA. 207 



to examine them, as coming within the range of the European 

 fauna, a position which this species has not hitherto held, the 

 only Junonia included in Staudinger's Catalogue being J. oenone, 

 L., which occurs in Syria. On examination I at once saw that 

 these specimens, coming from Bagdad, differed very materially 

 from the oriental type of J. orithya, L., which inhabits the Indian 

 region. Mr. Butler then showed me a specimen in a collection, 

 made recently by Major Yerbury at Aden, which exactly corre- 

 sponded to the Turkish specimens collected by Loftus in 1850. 

 From its geographical distribution and its appearance it seems 

 perfectly entitled to rank as a new species. I therefore describe it. 



Junonia here, n. sp. 



Expansio alar. 40-43 mm. 



Differt ab orithya, L., statura paginaque alarum. 



$ . Alis, supra nigris ; serie marginali macularum albi- 

 can tium ; macula apicali alba ; intus fascia brevi alba, cujus 

 inferiore parte extendit fascia latior cserulea, margine interiore 

 recto, maculam nigram obscure ocellatam continens ; ocello 

 apicali cseruleo obscure rubro-annulato ; duabus aut tribus 

 maculis subcostalibus cseruleis. Alis posticis caeruleis ; parte 

 basali nigra ; maculis ocellatis duabus (ut in Orithya), sed 

 superiore earum ocello fere obsoleto ; margine externa cserulea 

 (raro albida), lineis nigris duabus. Subtus, alis anticis, colore 

 pallidiore quam in Orithya, L. ; angulo anali nigrescente ; macula 

 anali sine annulo rubro. Posticis ochraceo-gricescentibus, parte 

 externa fusco-umbrata ; ocellis nullis, sed in $ et ? puncto 

 cseruleo juxta angulo anali. 



v r ) ? . Alis supra posticis fusco-cserulescentibus; ocellis majoribus 

 et bene notatis, csetera ut in mare. 



Habitat, Turcia Asiatica et Arabia. 



Differs from Junonia orithya, L., in being smaller, and in the 

 pattern of the wings. The fore wings have the blue submarginal 

 fascia straighter on its inner border, and there are no red sub- 

 costal spots, but only two or three indistinct blue ones. The hind 

 wings (in the male) have the upper of the two ocellated spots, 

 found in J. orithya, reduced to a black patch, or with a very 

 indistinct ocellus. The hind margin is generally blue with black 

 lines, sometimes whitish, but never as distinctly white as in 

 J. orithya. The under side differs remarkably from J. orithya in the 



