212 SOUTH- AFRICAN EUTTEKFLIES, 



blackish. Fringe of both wings as in ^, perhaps more distinctly marked 

 with whitish. Under side. — Quite similar to that of ^, but more dis- 

 tinctly marked ; the Mnd-vjing a little more brownish in tint. 



Larva. — Dull violaceous-grey on back, margined laterally by a 

 broad fuscous stripe, interrupted on segmental incisions ; below the 

 fuscous stripe a series of elongate yellowish markings on a ground- 

 colour slightly darker than that of the back ; below this the sides are 

 brownish-ochreous. Spines black. Head black, rather bristly, white- 

 spotted in front, with a pair of short divergent horns on summit. 

 Legs and pro-legs dull violaceous-grey. 



Described from a drawing by Mrs. Barber, reproduced in Plate I. 

 Jig. 4. Mrs. Barber informed me that the food-plant of this larva is a 

 purple-flowered species of Barleria (Ord. Accmthacece). 



This butterfly is very nearly allied to the well-known Asiatic species J. 

 CEnone, Fab., of which it is indeed the African rejDresentative. The much 

 more limited area of ochre- ijelloio in both wings, and the larger, more viola- 

 ceous, rounder blue spot in the hind-wings, on the upper side, readily distinguish 

 Cehrene ; its under side is universally greyer and less ochreous in tint. In 

 the $ the fore-wing has the ochre-yellow marking paler centrally, not occu- 

 pying basal area, but commencing at about the middle of the cell, deeply 

 indented by black in costa beyond middle, but not by any disco-cellular ter- 

 minal streak. The liind-ioing has the ochre-yellow patch narrower on the 

 inner margin, not extending so far in the direction of the costa ; the dark 

 hind-marginal lunular striae, excepting that at the anal angle, are scarcely 

 traceable, and the basal blue spot is not flattened superiorly. On the under 

 side, the fore-ioing has the terminal disco-cellular streak thinner and fainter ; 

 while the Imid-iuing has the transverse strise fainter, subdentate instead of 

 sharply crenelate (especially the subbasal and submarginal ones). In the $ 

 the fore-wing has the ochre-yellow patch still smaller ; but the hind-wing has it 

 larger than in the $ , while there is a single well-marked hind-marginal lunulate 

 streak instead of the two (or sometimes three) parallel streaks found in CEnone. 



The late Mr. F. Walker gives (Newman's Entomologist, 1870, p. 51) Mada- 

 gascar as one of the localities of CEnone, but judging from six male specimens 

 from Murundava, on the west coast of that island, in the collection of the South- 

 African Museum, the Malagasy form, though very near Cehrene, is quite distinct 

 both from the latter and CEnone. As compared with Cehrene, it presents the 

 following points of difference, viz., in the fore- wing : (i) The ochre-yellow patch 

 is differently shaped and situated, being vertically deeper, with its inner edge 

 considerably farther from base and much less oblique; (2) in the discoidal 

 cell, thus left almost wholly black, there are two metallic-blue striae, of which 

 the inner one is usually indistinct ; (3) the subapical pale-yellow mark is very 

 small, remote from ochre-yellow patch, and divided transversely. In the hind- 

 wing (4) the blue spot is larger, more metallic, not violaceous, less rounded, 

 being prolonged outwardly on radial nervule ; and (5) the ochre-yellow patch 

 is much less rounded, its inner edge being farther from base, and it is also 

 marked externally by two slightly darker streaks running parallel to hind- 

 margin. On the under side, in the fore-wing, (6) the black-edged cellular 

 strise are strongly defined, that at end of cell being double like the others, 

 Avhich are distinctly bluish; and in the hind-wing (7) the colouring beyond 

 middle is tinged with ferruginous; while (8) the median transverse line is 

 much more irregular and dentated, and bounded externally by a dark ashy-grey 

 stripe, broadest on costa. 



Should this form be undescribed, I propose that it should be named Junonia 

 Paris. 



