21 8 SOUTH- AFEICAN BUTTEKFLIES. 



both wings, two parallel submarginal fuscous lines, the outer continuous 

 and lunulated, the inner broken into small cuneiform marks. 



$ Fuscous; all the ocelli much larger, but especially those of hind- 

 wings ; Hue of hind-ioings imtch smaller in extent, and hoth duller and 

 paler. Fore-wing : a minute ocellus usually confluent with the lower 

 edge of upper ocellus, and an imperfect one touching its upper edge. 

 Hind-iving : the much-enlarged ocelli have great violaceous centres 

 (often with a white dot in the middle), inwardly bordered with pink 

 and outwardly with black ; the upper ocellus commonly includes a 

 minute inferior pupil ; above and below the lower ocellus occasionally 

 some black irroration ; blue space not violaceous, not infringing on dis- 

 coidal cell, and much narrower in its superior portion ; black pretty 

 evenly occupying almost the basal half of the wing. Under side. — 

 As in ^, but with the markings (especially ocelli of hind-wing) more 

 distinct. 



Cilia whitish, varied in fore-wing with fuscous at the extremities 

 of the nervures. 



A very close ally of the South-Asiatic J. Orithyia (Linn.), but 

 appearing to differ from it constantly in the particulars now to be 

 mentioned. As regards the $, J. Boopis has (i) the narrower sidj- 

 ajncal bar of the fore vnngs and the adjacent pale markings inueh yellower 

 in tint ; and (2) the black streak intersecting the lower part of the 

 bar between the two ocelli is never wanting, and usually very strongly 

 marked; while (3) the fulvous strife and rings of the ocelli are well 

 pronounced; (4) the blue of the hind-wings, besides being decidedly 

 violaceous in tint, occiqyies a considerahly smaller space, heing replaced hy 

 hlack in the hasi-costal region to a little beyond the branching of the 

 subcostal nervure ; and (5) the ujider side colouring is duller and 

 more inclining to argillaceous. The $ Boopis presents similar differ- 

 ences from the ^ Orithyia, except that the blue of the hind-wings, 

 though deeper in tint, is not violaceous, and, though occupying a 

 smaller space (the basal black being considerably broader), the difference 

 in area is not so marked as in the $ s. 



Compared with Orithyia from Ceylon and Southern India (Banga- 

 lore), the ^ of which expands only i in. 8 3- 1 1 lin., and the $ i in. 

 9 1 lin. — 2 in. i lin., Boopis is considerably the larger ; but farther 

 eastward, especially in China, the Asiatic species is fully as large as, 

 and even larger than, the African. The wings of the ^ Boojns are 

 proportionally longer ; but I have not seen any specimen in which the 

 fore-wings are subfalcate, as is the case with some of the Chinese 

 examples of Orithyia. Hopffer's J. Orithya from Querimba (Peters' 

 " Reise nach Mossambique," Ins. and Myriop., p. 380) is probably 

 referable to J. Boopis. 



Thoiigh recorded by Wallengren in 1857 as among Wahlberg's " Kaffrarian " 

 captures, and though known to me in 1862 as a native of Damaraland and the 

 LoAver Zambesi Valley, it was not until 1867 that I knew of the occurrence of 



