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ally with a longer or shorter projection of hind-margin at 

 extremity of first median nervule ; inner-margins deeply 

 grooved and entirely covering under-surface of abdomen ; 

 discoidal cell generally open. Abdomen shoit, compressed, 

 rather slender. 



LARVA. Rather stout, almost of equal thickness through- 

 out, armed with strong branched spines ; sometimes with two 

 short, similar spines on head. 



PUPA. Moderately angulated, with raised tubercles on the 

 back, head slightly bifid. Sometimes hardly angulated, the 

 anterior portions more rounded. 



These characters of Larva and Pupa are descriptive of the 

 figures of the early states of the Butterflies of this Genus on 

 Plate V of Horsfield and Moore's " Catalogue of Lepidop- 

 tera in the Museum of the E. I. Company." 



This extensive Genus comprises a considerable number of 

 species, all, I believe, extra-European. Many are con- 

 spicuous for beauty of colouring, but delicacy and fineness 

 of marking form their chief characteristic. The modification 

 of form observable in many species seems to call for the 

 establishment of distinct sub-genera ; which has, indeed, 

 been attempted by some authors. I think Boisduval's Genus 

 Salamis, which includes the species with falcate fore- wings 

 and hind-wings prolonged at anal angle, a well-founded and 

 natural group. As above characterised, the Genus Junonia 

 is known to possess eleven representatives in the South of 

 Africa. They are insects of middle size (with the excep- 

 tion of /. Anacardii, Linn., which sometimes expands 3| 

 inches), principally of deep rich colours, in which brown, 

 red, and various shades of ochre predominate ; though several 

 are spotted with blue, and in one species, /. Amestris, Drury, 

 blue is the predominant colour. All the eleven South African 

 species are found at Natal three indeed, /. Ceryne, Boisd., 

 J. Pelasgis*, Godt., and /. Hecate, mihi, seem only to have 

 been found in that region ; and three species extend as far 

 South as Knysna, on the sea-coast of the Division of George. 

 They are strong fliers, as might be inferred from their struc- 

 ture, but are as bold in settling near the collector as the 

 species of Pyrameis. 



75. Junonia CEnone. 



Papilio CEnone, Linn., Syst. Nat., II, p. 770, n. 135. 

 Mus. Lud. Ulr. Reg. p. 274, n. 93. 



* This species has since been sent me from British Kaffraria by Mr. 

 D'Urban. 



