2 26 south-africa:n" butterflies. 



69. (4.) Precis Tukuoa, (Wallengren). 



Salamis Tulcuoa, Wallgrn., K. Sv. Yet.-Ak. Haiidl., 1857; Lep. Rhop. 



Caffr., p. 25, n. 6. 

 Junonia Pelarga, Fab., Syn. (J , Trim., Rhop. Afr. Atist, ii. p. 337 (1866). 



Exp. al., I in. 11 lin. — 2 in. 3! lin. 



Broivn^ loitk a common fulvous-ochreous disced hand, hifid in fore- 

 wing, and in hind-iving more or less tinged with dull creamy on its inner 

 2)ortion. Fore-wing : costa rufoiis-oclireous from base to extremity of 

 discoidal cell ; across cell two short broad fulvous-ochreous stripes, the 

 outer of which extends below cell, where it is crossed by base of first 

 median nervule ; in cell, the spaces before, between, and beyond the 

 fulvous-ochreous stripes are rather indistinctly bluish with blackish 

 edges ; just beyond extremity of cell a short, angulated, transverse 

 black streak, immediately succeeded by a rather suffused blue one ; 

 discal band bifid from third median nervule, and partly traversed by 

 three spots of a row of seven parallel to hind-marginal border ; of these 

 spots, the dark rings of the upper four are merged in the ground- 

 colour between the arms of the discal band, the first having a blue 

 sufiused centre, while the other three have well-defined pure- white 

 centres (that of the third spot the largest), — the fifth and sixth are 

 without centres, and the last (which is double) has a minute white 

 centre in its larger upper portion ; inner half of moderately wide brown 

 hind-marginal border traversed by a row of rather faint and suffused 

 black-edged bluish lunules, — outer half externally edged with a blackish 

 line. Hind-iving : near base two small fulvous-ochreous spots, one 

 between costal and subcostal nervures, the other in discoidal cell ; five 

 small black spots in the row traversing discal band, between first sub- 

 costal and first median nervules, — the second spot occasionally (and 

 very rarely the third also) with a minute white centre ; hind-marginal 

 border as in fore-wing, except that at anal angle the last blue lunule 

 of inner portion is larger and brighter than the rest, and joins on the 

 anal-angular process a similar outer lunule. Cilia brown, with whitish 

 inter-nervular interruptions. Under side. — Didl rcddish-ochreous, much 

 shot ivith violaceous ; a common narrow median yellow stripe, externally 

 dentated ; the markings of the upper side faintly indicated by corre- 

 sponding outlines of slatey-grey. Fore-wing : transverse cellular stripes 

 indicated by a paler, yellower colour ; the three white-centred spots of 

 upper side represented by impure-white spots in rufous-grey rings ; a 

 slight hoary irroration at apex. Hind-u-ing : a similar irroration about 

 anal-angular process. 



The sexes do not differ in appearance, except that in the $ the 

 wings are broader and less angulated, and the common discal band is 

 markedly wider, and of a duller, deeper fulvous. 



ISTotwithstanding the much more angulated wings — the fore- wings are 

 indeed falcate — and the dull-coloured, little-varied under side, Tukuoa is 

 undoubtedly a very close ally of Ceryne, Boisd., every marking actually cor- 



