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66. (1.) Precis Sophia, (Fabricins). 



Fajnlio Sophia, Fab., Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 248, n. 771 (1793). 



Donov., Ins. Intl., t. 36, f. 3 (1800) [teste W. F. Kirby]. 

 Vanessa Sophia, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix, Suppl. p. 823 (18 19). 

 Junonia (Precis) Sophia, Doubl., Gen. Diurn. Lep., p. 210, n. 23 (1846-50). 



Uxp. al, I in. lO-ii lin. 



$ Broivn, with pale rufous-ochrcous hands; on hind-margins two 

 parallel, ill-defined, sub-lunulated, brownish-grey streaks, the inner one 

 immediately preceded by a row of indistinct blackish spots. Fore- 

 luing : base widely suffused with deep brownish fulvous ; immediately 

 beyond discoidal cell a strongly-curved transverse band, convex out- 

 wardly, of five or six divisions ; two double black striae across discoidal 

 cell ; at extremity of cell a long, oblique, black stria, extending through 

 transverse band to submedian nervure beyond middle ; a moderately 

 wide subapical bar of three divisions, irregular, slightly convex out- 

 wardly ; between lower end of subapical bar and submedian ner- 

 vure, a row of three indistinct, large, blackish spots. Hind-wing : base 

 fuscous, crossed by two waved, short, disco-cellular rufous striae ; a 

 median band quite across wing, rather broad except for a sudden nar- 

 rowing on costa; between first and second median nervules, the band 

 is externally pierced by a well-marked straight brown streak, and 

 between first median nervule and submedian nervure by a shorter and 

 blunted projection ; just beyond band, a row of five to six large blackish 

 spots. Cilia brown, with white inter-nervular interruptions. Under 

 SIDE. — Rufous-ochreous of base and bands rep)laced hy j;«/e whitish- 

 creamy ; all strice and spots very distinct, conspicuous; along hind- 

 margins, a yellow streak, black-edged on both sides. Fore-winy : in 

 discoidal cell, clear-rufous fills the space on each side of the two pale- 

 creamy black-edged stri« ; subapical bar suffused externally ; between 

 it and apex a minute oblique whitish streak. Hind-wing : three highly 

 irregular, basal, transverse blackish streaks, forming a network of 

 markings ; two streaks outwardly piercing central band united in an 

 irregular W-like marking, of which the innermost arm is extended as 

 far as the basal marking. 



$ Similar, paler, the hands hroader. Fore-tving : basal rufous much 

 reduced, and with a fuscous tinge. Under side. — Subapical bar of 

 fore-iving and central band of hind-wing widely suffused externally, so 

 as to occupy the greater part of hind-margin. 



Var. {$). 



Fuscous, with the ordi7ictry transverse hand common to hoth ivings, 

 and the sid>apical har of fore-wing tvhite and sometohat narrowed. 

 Under side normal. 



Fore-wing elongated in apical, hind-wing in anal-angular portion. 



This curious variety is represented in the British Museum by an example 

 from Fernando Po, and in the South-African Museum by one taken on the 

 Gold Coast by Mr. J. Morton Pask, of H.M.S. Druid. One is reminded by 



