feet, bat the others are distinct, the fifth having the colours almost as bright 

 as on the upper side ; hind-margin clouded with brownish inferiorly. 



The colouring of the under side varies much, some specimens being 

 suffused with a pale-olivaceous or dull-brownish tinge generally, while 

 a few examples present an almost uniform dull creamy-ferruginous 

 tint, except for the dark median streak inwardly bordered rather con- 

 spicuously with ochre-yellow. The sexes are quite alike, except that 

 in the $ the discal band of the upper side is rather broader. 



P. Elgiva is the Southern representative of P. Tcrea (Drury), which 

 inhabits Tropical Western Africa. It is readily separable on the upper 

 side by its much narrower ochre-yellow discal band (untraversed by the 

 longitudinal streak so conspicuous in Terea), and by its having in the 

 fore-wing only two subapical small white spots, instead of a submar- 

 ginal row of six or seven subocellate ones, and in the hind-wing much 

 better defined ocelli. On the under side all the markings in Elgiva 

 (except in the rather rare examples coloured with creamy-ferruginous) 

 are darker and browner and more strongly developed, especially the 

 striae before middle and the discal ocelli. 



I first met with this fine Precis near the Tongaati River, in Natal, on the 

 20th March 1867, and a few days afterwards fell in with it again on the 

 Umhlanga, not far from D'Urban. Tlie neighbourhood of the latter place has 

 since yielded many specimens to Mr. W. D. Gooch and Colonel Bowker, and 

 the latter has sent me the paired sexes taken in March 1879 and April 1881. 

 The butterfly is conspicuous on the wing, and has quite the same habits as P. 

 natalka, flitting about near the herbage in wooded spots. 



Mr. HcAvitson's figure is from a Zambesian example, apparently faded, the 

 colouring being considerably paler than in good Natalian examples. 



Localities of Precis Elgiva. 

 I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban (/. H. Bowker and IF. D. Gooch). 

 Umhlanga. Tongaati. 



II. Otlier African Eegions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — "Angola (Pogge)," — Dewitz. 

 h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi {/. Dickinson). — Hewitson. "Tchou- 

 acka (Raff ray)." — Oberthiir. 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast.— "Old Calabar (Coll. Druce)."— Butler. 



77. (12.) Precis Tugela, Trimen. 

 Plate IV. fig. 5 ( ? ). 

 Precis Tugela, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1879, p. 334. 



Exp. al., 2 in. 5-L lin. (^) ; 2 in. 1 1 lin. ($). 

 ^ Dark-brown, with hroad oclire-ydlow discal hand. Forc-iving : 

 band commencing on costa, curved convexly outwardly, its edges irre- 

 gular (especially the inner one, which is deeply indented hy ground- 

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