1895.] FROM BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 257 



23. EURALIA MIMA. 



.Dladema mima, Triaien, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. p. 506 note, 

 pi. xliii. fig. 7 (1869). 



Two females, Zomba. 



Both sexes of this fine Eurdlia are in the fft/polimnas group of 

 the Grodman and Salvin collection recently added to the Museum 

 series. The species is a good copy of Amauris whytei, the Nyasa 

 representative of A. albimaculata, which it doubtless miinies in 

 Natal, as Mr. Trimen observes. 



24. JUNONIA ARTAXIA. 



Junonia artaxia, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Jun. pi. i. fig. 6 

 (1864). 



$ , Zomba. 



25. JUNONIA PAYOXINA, sp. n. (Plate XVI. figs. 1-3.) 



Allied to J. artaxia. Primaries above having the same general 

 aspect, but brilliantly glossed all over with peacock-blue ; the 

 broad black patch from costa only represented by a diffused dark 

 shade, with sinuous external edge, beyond end of discoidal cell ; 

 the subapical whitish bar of J. artaxia represented by an angulated 

 blue band enclosing an oblique trifid snow-white streak near the 

 costa ; and halfway between this band and the end of the cell 

 there are three or four transverse blue spots bounding the upper 

 portion of the dark shade previously noted ; a slightly irregular, 

 but not sinuated black stripe separates the angular blue subapical 

 band from a diffused blue marginal band which tapers along the 

 edge of the black stripe at its upper extremity and along the margin 

 at its lower extremity ; fringe dull white, grey towards apex and 

 external angle and traversed throughout by a dusky line flecked 

 with black : secondaries brilliant peacock-blue in the male, and the 

 centre of the wing to beyond the middle blue in the female ; ocelli 

 of nearly equal size, a little brighter in colouring than in J. artaxia ; 

 'submarginal lines wider and blacker : body slightly darker. Under 

 surface very dissimilar, olive-brown ; the pattern of the primaries 

 nearly as in J. nachtigalii, but only glossed with purple below the 

 cell; the four transverse stripes sharply defined and whity-brown, 

 slightly glossed with blue below the median vein ; an apical costal 

 cuneiform whitish patch, partly edged with diffused white spots 

 towards costal margin ; ocelli small, olivaceous grey, with yellowish 

 iris flecked internally with red ; submarginal line slender, blackish, 

 irregularly undulated : secondaries somewhat paler and greyer, 

 especially towards abdominal margin ; a sharply defined, blackish- 

 edged, central clear yellowish -white stripe from costa to anal angle; 

 two other, less sharply defined stripes between the latter at the 

 base from costa to submedian vein, where they unite in a loop, the 

 inner stripe being straight and the outer obtusely elbowed ; ocelli 

 slightly larger than on the primaries, but similar in character, fol- 

 lowed by a nebulous sinuated streak : submarginal line steel-bluish, 



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