240 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



76. (11.) Precis Elgiva, (Hewitson). 



Junonia Elgiva, Hewits., Exot. Butt., iii. pi. 13, f. i (1864). 

 Junonia Xipha, Butl., Cist. Ent., i. p. 7 (1869;. 



Exp. al., 2 in. — 2 in. 4^ lin. 



Darh-hroivn ; a common transverse disced hand of ocTire-yellov:, 

 hounded externally on hind-wing hy a roio of occllatcd spots. Fore- 

 loing : an indistinct dull -reddish transverse stria edged narrowly on 

 both sides with blackish, about middle of discoidal cell, and a similar, 

 more waved, stria at extremity of cell ; discal band commencing 

 narrowly near costa about middle, but widening gradually downward 

 to inner margin, — its outer edge much curved posteriorly, its inner 

 edge bluntly angulated on third median nervule ; just within the 

 outer edge of the band (and usually touching the brown ground- 

 colour) in its lower half, a row of three rather suifused inter-nervular 

 dark-brown spots, of which the lowest is geminate ; close to costa 

 and near apes, two very small white spots, of which the lower is 

 sometimes obsolete ; a moderately wide hind-marginal border of paler 

 brown traversed longitudinally by a dark-brown streak. Hind-wing : 

 closing discoidal cell, a faint reddish stria like that in fore-wing, but 

 narrower and straighter ; discal band commencing narrowly and palely 

 on costa beyond middle, its inner edge only slightly waved, its outer 

 edge directly bounded by a row of six ocellated spots ; of these spots 

 all but the two lowest are externally imperfect and obscured with dark- 

 brown, but the two complete ones are dark-red, ringed with ochre- 

 yellow and blackish, and centred with black bearing a bluish pupil, 

 — the sixth or last being geminate and bipupillate ; hind-marginal 

 border as in fore-wing ; anal-angular process irrorated with bluish. 

 Cilia dark-brown, with small but distinct white inter-nervular spots. 

 Under side. — Pale dull-creamy, streaked and clouded with h7'0um ; a 

 common median dark-brown streak from costa of fore-wing to anal 

 angle of hind- wing, and a common discal row of ocelli ; two sub- 

 marginal brown streaks, the inner much more dentated than the outer 

 one. Fore-wing : cellular striae distinct, ochre-brown, both prolonged 

 as far as submedian nervure ; beyond them a third, darker, broader, 

 more denticulated stria immediately preceding the dark-brown trans- 

 verse streak ; apical area clouded with brown, which extends along 

 nearly all the hind-margin ; discal row of ocelli commencing with the 

 lower of the two very small white spots near apex, and having the 

 second, third, and fourth very small and indistinct, but the fifth and 

 sixth large and better marked, being pale-ochreous in a brown ring 

 and centred with a whitish -pupilled blackish spot. Hiiid-iving : 

 median dark-brown streak conspicuous, slightly suffused with reddish- 

 brown; before middle a similar but much more curved and irregular 

 transverse streak ; three or four thin brown striote in discoidal cell ; 

 of the six discal ocelli the third and fourth are very small and imper- 



