23B SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



61. Eastern Interior. — Shashani River (F. C. Selous). " Victoria 

 Nyanza {Rev. J. Hannington)." — A. G. Butler. 



75. (10.) Precis natalica, Fekler. 



Precis natalica, FekL, Wien. Ent. Monats., iv. p. 106 (i860). 

 Jiinonia Recede, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 140, n. 84(1862); and ii. 

 pi. iii. f. 6 (1866). 



Exp. al., 2 in. 2 lin. — 2 in. 5 lin. 



Dull greyish-brown, with chdl ochreous-red transverse sirice and ocel- 

 lated spots; four conspicuous p>nre-white spots near apex of fore-wing. 

 Fore-wing : two ochreous-red, blackish-edged strise across discoidal 

 cell, the outer one closing cell ; a broad space on costa, commencing a 

 little beyond extremity of cell, is much darker than rest of wing, and 

 contains three pure white spots, arranged transversely from first sub- 

 costal to third median nervule ; a dark stripe, including an indistinct 

 dull-red one, extends from third median nervule, immediately before 

 the lowest white spot, to a little beyond middle of inner margin ; a 

 small pure-white spot on costa close to apex commences a row of 

 blackish spots parallel to hind-margin, between nervules, as far as sub- 

 median nervure, the two lowest spots the largest, and always surrounded 

 by an ochreous-red ring, wider on the inner side, — the other spots 

 occasionally in indistinct smaller rings, some of them generally with 

 minute bluish pupils ; beyond these ocellate spots are two dark-brown 

 or blackish lunulate striae bordering hind-margin ; fringe varied with 

 white and brown. Hioid-ioing : a transverse, dull ochreous-red, black - 

 edged stria about middle of discoidal cell, composed of two small 

 spots, and a similar stria at extremity of cell ; the dark stripe of fore- 

 wing, enclosing a dull-red one, is continued across this wing, gradually 

 narrowing towards inner margin, where, a little before anal angle, it 

 becomes obsolete ; beyond it, a transverse row of more or less con- 

 spicuous ochreous-red ocelli, with blue-dotted black centres, five in 

 number, situated between first subcostal nervule and first median 

 nervule, — the last spot the largest and brightest, and in a distinct, 

 thin, yellow ring ; in some specimens, a sixth similar but much smaller 

 (occasionally minute^ ocellus, above submedian nervure ; two dark- 

 brown, lunulate streaks beyond ocelli, parallel to hind-margin, but 

 more continuous than in for e-ivivg, — darker at anal angle, where there 

 is a slight irroration of blue-grey scales ; fringe brown, slightly marked 

 with white. Under side. — Vcri/ variable : ground-colour commonly 

 7nuch paler than on upper side. Fore-iving : an additional dull-red 

 mark in discoidal cell, at base ; three white spots beyond cell, in 

 darker portion, rather larger, commonly contiguous, — the row continued 

 to first median nervule by two pale markings, immediately beneath 

 which is a large, whitish spot; before this spot, and likewise imme- 



