482 .MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [NoV. 4, 



the mimics of dorippus with white and alcippus are rather rarer 

 than the other types."— J. W. Y. 



As might be expected, this copy of Limnas chrysippus is very 

 inconstant in coloration at Aden ; a specimen taken on the 27th 

 March has lost the black apical patch, and the white subapical band 

 is replaced by a pale tawny band (Z, inaria, Cramer), so that this 

 insect more nearly resembles the Indo-African type of L. dorippus ; 

 furthermore Col. Swinhoe confirms Major Yerbury's note to the 

 effect that some females have white on the secondaries like L. 

 alcippus, and thus would agree with my H. ahippoides from the 

 Victoria Nyanza. An instance of this kind points without question 

 to some relationship between the females of H. misippus and the 

 Limnas which they copy, and is a sufficient answer to those who 

 dispute the existence of protective assimilation. 



4. JUNONIA HERE. 



Junonia here, Lang, Entomologist, p. 206 (Sept. 1884). 



c?, Haithalkim, 4th April, 1884. 



This species, which we have also from Bagdad, has long been 

 confounded with J. orithyia of China. It, however, is constantly 

 smaller, with the primaries blacker ; the discoidal s))ots blue instead 

 of scarlet ; the external blue area transverse and with a sharply 

 defined straight inner edge ; the white band of the primaries is 

 narrow, and the posterior ocellus little more than a black patch ; the 

 anterior ocellus of the secondaries is also represented by a large 

 rounded black spot ; the external border greenish-grey ; on the 

 under surface the apical area of the primaries and the whole of the 

 secondaries are of a whitish stone-colour with darker and paler 

 markings, but the secondaries correspond with those of true J. 

 orithyia in the absence of distinct ocelli. 



.0. Junonia clelia. 



Papilio clelia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. xxi. E, F (1775). 

 cJ, Huswah, 24th June, 1883. 



6. Junonia cebrene. 



Junonia cebrene, Trim-en, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 353. 



6 2, Aden, 10th October, 1883. 



Mr. Kivby quotes " J. crebrene," Butler, as a synonym of this 

 species. As, however, my paper was read and ordered for jiublication 

 before my friend Trimen's was received by the Entomological Society, 

 as the Secretary also altered the name which I had proposed and, 

 withovt consulting me, gave Trimen's paper precedence in the 

 volume, either the species should be quoted as mine, or the synonym 

 J. crebrene (sic) ascribed to the person from whose pen it emanated ; 

 I should prefer the latter course. 



The occurrence of Pyrumeis cardui is noted by Major Yerbury. 



