1898.] FROM MASHUNA LAND. '.Ml I 



XYMPIIALIN.I:. 



6. ClIARAXES SATURN US Blltl. 



c? c?> Salisbury, 30th March arid 3rd and loth April, 1S9S. 



Mr. Marshall lahels one of these as " '>=1atic.im-t<i Hut,]."; hut it 

 is not at all like that form, which I believe to hi; con fined to the 

 Nyasa district. I see nothing in Mr. Marshall's example to dis- 

 tinguish it from any other S. African specimens, whereas probably 

 most of the Continental Lepidopterists would have unhesitatingly 

 described the form G. laticinctus as a distinct species, instead of a 

 common local aberration. 



7. JUNONIA SESAMUS Trim, (and var. calescens). 



Salisbury, 5000 feet (wet and dry forms), 13th February; dry 

 form, 13th, 16th, 20th, and 23rd March, 1898. 



It is quite evident, although Mr. Marshall bred J. srsamus from 

 eggs laid by J. calesoens, that both forms ily together in the \\ct 

 season : it is therefore better to call /. calescens a dry phase than 

 a dry-season form. One of Mr. Marshall's examples is labelled 

 "Bred from egg laid by P. octavia-natalcnsis. Stages : Kgg 13th- 

 18th Febr., larva 19th Febr. -19th Mar., pupa 20th Mar. -4th Apr. 

 1898." This specimen therefore apparently emerged on the ."3th 

 April. 



I object to the name " Precis octavia-natalensis " for the follow- 

 ing reasons : Precis is a synonym of Junonia ; octavia is a distinct 

 West- African species ; natalensis was a name proposed for the wet 

 form of P. sesamus, under the impression that it was a variety of 

 the Western insect, and is objectionable because the genus already 

 contains a species named natalica. 



8. JUNONIA ARCIIESIA Cram, 



cf, dry form, Salisbury, llth May, 1898, 



9. JUNONIA CUAMA llewits. 



d d, $ $," dry form," Salisbury, 9th, 13th, IWh, and 23rd 

 March; 10th April, 1898. 



The examples vary a good deal on both surfaces, but do not in 

 the least resemble the following, which Mr. Marshall unaccountably 

 labels as its " wet form "although, as usual, caught at the same time 1 . 



10. JUNONIA SIMIA Wallgr. 



c? ," wet-form", Salisbury, 27th February; 9, 13th March, 

 1898. 



11. JUNONIA BOOPIS Trim. 



$ 2 , Salisbury, 4th and isth June, ISO 8. 



1 Two very distinct forms of J. cuu/na aiv fonvanitnl. <hh> of tl\.-ni, wlucli is 

 labelled ' Early dry form." seems to ha\e !i|>]>cai-t-il in the latter halt' of Marrh . 

 a more heavily marked and more round-winded form, takm a fortnight t'arhfi-. 

 looks like its vvet form ; but is said to U-the " I'irst appearance uf tin- dry form." 



