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generally in the female, crossed by black veins as in J. here and 

 J. albicincta. 



2. Blue area of secondaries in the male more restricted towards 

 the costal margin. 



3. Hind marginal pale striae in the male grey instead of pure 

 white or bone-white. 



4. Uuder-surface coloration decidedly paler, almost as pale as in 

 J. here and J. swvikoei. 



I have made the above observations because I believe /. boojns to 

 be a good species, and because 1 feel satisfied that in the present 

 instance my usually most reliable friend has failed, from want of 

 sufficient material, to indicate its real distinctive characters. 



33. JUNONIA INFRACTA, Sp. n. 



Allied to J. Sophia ; the males of the same colours, only slightly 

 redder above ; the female before me white instead of fulvous ; the 

 yellow belt immediately beyond the basal area of primaries unbroken, 

 forming a regular curved band, divided by the nervures ; in the 

 female the basal area is black ; on tbe under surface the black-edged 

 brown oblique band halfway between the cell and apex of primaries 

 is considerably narrower than in J. sophia ; and the angular band, 

 which in that species runs from the inferior angle of the cell to the 

 external angle (partly bounding the whitish postmedian patch), is 

 absent ; in other respects the two species are almost identical. Ex- 

 panse of wings, c? 45 miUini., $ 50 millim. 



cJ. Tobbo, 22nd May, Vedada, 16th June, 1883. $ . Forests of 

 Tiveta, Kilima-njaro, March 1885 {Bishop Hannington). 



S|jeaking of the white variety of the male of J. sophia, which 

 looks like a small Panopea lucretia, Mr. Trinien calls attention to 

 the fact that whilst M. Oberthiir mentions it, " he does not say 

 whether the variety in question obtains in the female as well as iu 

 the male." The only female of the alUed J. infracta in our pos- 

 session being black and white, it is highly probable that a similar 

 form of the female occurs iu J. sophia ; so far as my experience 

 goes, melanism is much commoner iu the female than iu the male sex. 



34. JuNONIA AMESTRIS. 



Papilio amestris, Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. iii. pi. 20. figs. 3, 4 (1782). 

 Stazione Gadda, 14th and 1 6th January, 1884. 

 Seven examples of this pretty species were obtained, exhibiting 

 very little variation in colouring and none in pattern. 



35. JuNONIA CLOANTHA. 



Papilio cloantha. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 338. A, B (1782). 

 Wadelai, 5th and 12th March, 1887. 



36. JUNONIA CUAMA. 



Junonia cuama, Ilewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Jim. pi. 1. figs. 4, 5 

 (1864). 



Wadelai, 27th January, 1887. 



