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this bean tif 111 Junonia as far south as Potchefstroom in the Transvaal. In 1872 

 fine examples from tliat locality were sent to me by Mr. Walter Morant and 

 INIr. Thomas Ayres, the former of whom Avrote that at the end of February the 

 butterfly was plentiful but local on the banks of the Mooi River, and also 

 occurred in January, stragglers continuing to appear in April and May. Near 

 Pretoria jNIr. IMorant also took aii example, in swampy ground, on 28th INIarch. 

 Colonel Bowker has sent me a single male example, with the information 

 that it was captured on the 27th November 1882 in a footpath at Isipingo, 

 Natal, in company with a number of /. Clelia. 



Localities of Junonia Boopis. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Isipingo (/. H. Bowher). 

 H. Delagoa Bay. — LoreuQO Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom {W. Morant and T. Ayres). Pretoria 

 (IF. Morant). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Damaraland [J. A. Bell), 

 h. Eastern Coast — Zambesi River (Coll. S.-Afr. Mus.) 

 hi. Interior. — Mashunaland (i^. C.Selous). " Victoria Falls of Zam- 

 besi {F. Oa/es)."— Westwood. 



Genus PRECIS. 



Precis, Hiibn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 33(1816); Doubl. (" Junonia, Sect. 



II."), Gen. Diurn. Lep., i. p. 209 (1849). 

 Junonia (part). Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 124 (1862). 



Imago. — Most closely allied to Junonia. Palpi with second and 

 terminal joints longer; antennce usually longer, with club more gra- 

 dually formed. Wings with hind-margin more dentate ; fore-wings 

 always more or less angulated at extremity of upper radial nervule, 

 sometimes falcate ; prominence at extremity of first median nervule 

 often very pronounced ; hind-wings sometimes rounded, but more 

 often produced or tailed at anal angle, and in many cases angulated 

 at extremity of third median nervule. Fore-legs of ^ with the tarsi 

 considerably shorter. 



Larva. — Set with rather long, rigid, acute, verticillate spines ; 

 head with two long, thick, erect, blunt, shortly-branched horns. 



Pupa. — Rather robust ; head bluntly bifid, the pointed pre- 

 ocular tubercle on each side unequally cleft at tip ; thorax with a 

 central dorsal tubercle, a row on each side of three smaller tubercles, 

 and two acute points on each shoulder-ridge ; tubercles of three dorsal 

 rows of abdomen large, rounded basally, and pointed ; on sides of 

 abdomen two rows of very small tubercles, one above, the other below, 

 spiracles. 



