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This beautiful insect inhabits the greater part of South Africa, and is 

 usually numerous in its favourite haunts, which are waste open ground, marshy 

 spots, stubble-fields, &c. It is very active, but frequently settles on the ground 

 and on low flowers. When the wings are closed, the grey under side renders 

 the butterfly very inconspicuous, especially when settled on certain sandy 

 soils, Colonel Bowker observed in Kaffraria that a persistent enemy of Cehrene 

 was a small striped lizard, which cautiously stalked and seized the prey, not- 

 Avithstanding its activity and alertness. " The lizards often hunt in pairs, 

 driving the game from one to the other." I have found this Junonia on the 

 wing from the beginning of December to the end of June. During April I 

 have twice seen a worn straggler in Cape Town ; but I do not think that the 

 species inhabits the country westward of Swellendam. 



Localities of Junonia Cehrene. 

 I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Cape Town [occasionally]. Swellendam {L, 



Taats). Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. 

 h. Eastern Districts. — Port Elizabeth. Uitenhage {S. D. Bairstow). 

 Bathurst ; Kowie River (/. L. Fry). Grahamstown. King 

 William's Town {W. S. M. D Urban and /. H. Bowker). 

 Queenstown ; Windvogelberg {Dr. Batho). 

 D. Kaflfraria Proper. — Butterworth and Bashee River (/. //, Boivker). 

 B. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. Itongati River. Umhlali 



River. Umvoti River. Mapumulo. 

 h. Upper Districts. — Udland's Mission Station. Little Noodsberg. 

 Greytown. Pietermaritzburg. Estcourt (J. M. Hutchinson). 

 Biggarsberg (J. H. Bowker). 

 F. Zululand. — Isandlhwana (J. II. Boivker). St. Lucia Bay [Colojiel 



H. Tower). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom {T. Ayres). 

 L. Bechuanaland. — Motito (liev. J. Fredoux). 



IT. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Damaraland {C. J. Andersson and /. A. Bdl). 

 " Angola : Loanda." — A. G. Butler. " Congo : Ambriz (/. J. 

 Monteiro)." — H. Druce; and"Kinsembo (H. Ansell)." — A. G. 

 Butler. 



h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi River {Rev. H. Rowley). " Mozam- 

 bique." — Hopffer. "Lake Jipe" [between 3° and 4° S. lat.] — 

 Gerstixcker. " Ivilima-njaro [H. H. Johnston)." — F. D. Godman 

 \(Enone'\. 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — " Sierra Leone {Rev. D. F. Morgan)." — E. 



Doubleday. " Senegambia." — Gerstacker, 

 &, Eastern Coast. — " Somaliland." — Felder. " Tajora (Straits of 



Bab-el-Mandeb) ; Harkeko ; Hor Tamanib^ (/. A'. Lord)." — 



F. Walker. " Upper Egypt."— Gerstacker. 



IV. Asia. 



A. Southern Region. — " Arabia {Ehrenherg in Mus. Berol.)." — Ger- 

 stacker. 



^ A (J example, ticketed " Hor Tamanib," from Mr. Lord's collection, and presented to 

 me by Mr. R. Meldola, does not differ from the ordinary South-African Cebrene. 



