2IO SOUTH- AFKICAN EUTTERFLIES. 



^, and but moderately hairy in the $. The twenty species referable 

 to the group are remarkable for the beauty, and often the large size, of 

 the ocellated spots which adorn the upper side of the wings, and some 

 (among which are the three South- African species) are further orna- 

 mented by a blue space or a large blue spot on the hind-wings. On 

 the under side the colouring is reuiarkably plain and uniform, the hind- 

 wings and apical area of fore- wings being pale-clay colour, inclining to 

 either a yellowish or greyish tinge, with the ocellated spots chiefly 

 obsolete or inconspicuously and imperfectly represented. This under 

 surface here is protective, especially when the butterfly is settled on 

 the ground — a frequent practice of the Junonice, which are active, alert 

 insects, with the habits of the Vanessce and allies. 



The genus ranges throughout the warmer parts of the world 

 (except, apparently. Western Polynesia), but does not enter the Pal as- 

 arctic Region, except at points along its southern boundary. The 

 greater part of the genus is Oriental and Australian, five (or perhaps 

 six) species are African, and three American. The three natives of 

 Southern Africa are J. Ccbrene, Trimen, J. Clelia (Cram.), and J. 

 Boojois, Trimen. Of these, the first and second have a very wide range 

 throuofh Africa, while the third inhabits Damaraland, the Zambesi 

 Valley, and the Transvaal, extending from the latter country to Delagoa 

 Bay and Natal. Cchrene is at once recognisable by the broad ochre- 

 yellow patches on the upper side ; Clelia and Boojns agree in possessing 

 a creamy-white subapical bar in the fore-wings, but the former has in 

 the hind-wings only a circular blue spot like that of Cehrene, while the 

 latter has nearly all the hind-wing surface blue. Boopis is the African 

 representative of the widely-spread Oriental species, Orithya, Linn. 



63. (1.) Junonia Oebrene, Trimen. 



(J Junonia CEjione, Hlibn., Samml. Exot. Schmett., ii. t. 34, ff. i, 2 (jiec 



3, 4), (1806). 

 (J 9 Vanessa (Enone, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. p. 318, n. 51 (1819). 

 „ Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg., p. 592 (1847). 

 $ $ Junonia CEnone, Trim, (part), Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 125, n. 75 



(1862). 

 $ 5 Junonia Cehrene, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1870, p. 353 ; and 



Butler (/, Crehrene), loc. cit., p. 524. 

 Junonia Crehrene, Gerst., Gliederth.-Faun. Sansibar-Gebiet., p. 369, n. 17 



(1873). 



Ex23. «/., I in. iO:| lin. — 2 in. 3 lin. 



Black ; a broad ochre-yellow patch in each wing ; in hind-wing, a 

 large, round bhce spot. 



$ Fore-iuing : ochre-yellow patch occupying middle of wing, ex- 

 tending from costa almost to submedian nervure, and from middle of 

 discoidal cell to hind-marginal border, deeply indented with ground- 

 colour both on its upper and lower portion beyond middle, — much paler 



