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third segment, and a short pair on the twelfth. The pupa is 

 green, with scattered golden dots. 



GENUS AMAURIS. 



Amauris, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett, p. 14 (1816); Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, p. 226; Schatz, Exot. 

 Schmett., ii., p. 83 (1886); Trimen, South African Butter- 

 flies, i., p. 56 (1887). 



Danais, Sect, i, Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lepid., p. 89 (1847). 

 Type Papilio niavius (Linn.), from West Africa. 



AMAURIS NIAVIUS. 



Papilio niavius, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 470, no. 76 

 (1788); id., Mus. Ludov. Ulr., p. 253 (1764); Clerck, 

 Icones, pi. 32, f. 2 (1764) ; Cramer, Pap. Exot., i., pi. 2, figs. 



F.,G.(i 7 75). 

 Danais niavia, Godart, Enc. Me'th., ix., p. 182, no. 22 (1819). 



A large black species, over three inches in expanse, with 

 large bluish-white sub-apical spots on the fore-wings, and a 

 great part of the hind-wings filled up with the same colour. 

 It is a West African insect, its South African representative 

 (A. dominicanuS) Trimen) being larger, with more extended 

 white markings. 



Amauris is a genus of small extent, entirely confined to 

 Tropical and Southern Africa. The species are of moderate 

 size (two to four inches across the wings), and are of a rich 

 dark brown, with white or ochreous spots. We have figured a 

 species belonging to the closely-allied genus or sub-genus 

 Nebroda (Moore), lately described from Matabele Land by Miss 

 Emily M. Sharpe, and named after the barbarous but un- 

 fortunate king of that country. It differs from the common 

 South African N. echeria (Stoll) by the great exient of the 

 pale central part on the hind-wings. 



