236 SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Localities of Precis Archesia. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Knysna (3Iiss Wentworth). 

 I. Eastern Districts. — Uitenlmge. Grahauistown. Peddie. Kowie 

 River Mouth {J. L. Fry). King William's Town {W. S. M. 

 \n Urban, Veil. H. Kifton, J. H. Bowher). Windvogelberg. 

 Queenstown {Dr. Batho). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Basliee River (/. H. Boivker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Tongaati River. 



b. Upper Districts — Pietermaritzburg. Grey town. Estcourt (/. M. 



Hutchinson). 



IL Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — "Angola (Porjf/e)." — H. Dewitz. "Banana, 



Angola (/. J. Monteiro)." — H. Druce. 

 h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi River {Rev. H. Rowley). — Coll. Hope, 

 Oxon. 



74. (9.) Precis Pelasgis, Goclart. 



Vanessa Pelasgis, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. SuppL, p. S20, n. 38-39 (1819). 

 Junonia Pelasgis, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 135, n. 81 (1862). 



Exp. al, 2 in. i lin. — 2 in. 4 lin. 



Dark-brown ; Icyond middle, a pale ochreous hand tinged with dull- 

 red crossing hath wings. Fore-ioing : some dull-reddish scales on costa 

 near base ; two irregular, sometimes half-obliterated, dull-red trans- 

 verse strise in discoidal cell, the inner strise externally, the outer 

 internally, edged with a blue-dotted black line ; a thin black line 

 inwardly edged with blue at extremity of cell, and a more indistinct 

 similar stria a little beyond it ; pale-ochreous band bifid on costa, 

 the outer ray being very much narrower than the inner, macular, and 

 more or less interrupted ; immediately before the outer ray of the band 

 are the first three of a transverse row of six white-centred black spots, 

 parallel to hind-margin, of which the remaining three (as in the allied 

 species) are in the ochreous band, near its outer edge, the last spot 

 being above submedian nervure ; close to hind-margin are two rows of 

 lunular markings, scarcely paler than ground-colour, but the inner 

 row more or less coloured with bluish scales ; fringe brown, white- 

 spotted in indentations of margin. Eind-ioing : ochreous band con- 

 tinued across this wing, beyond middle, to a little before anal angle 

 on inner margin, and containing five black dots, not white-centred, 

 between first subcostal and third median nervules ; two indistinct, 

 slio-htly paler in tint, lunulate streaks, divided by a streak darker than 

 ground-colour, border hind-margin ; at anal angle is a faint-bluish 

 mark; fringe as in fore-icing. Under side. — Of a darker, duller 



