Butterflies of the Genus Precis. 207 
The wet form is small, and is doubtless the P. Galami 
(described, by comparison with P. andremiaja, in the Faune 
Ent. de Madagascar) ; in this form both sexes have a more 
or less fulvous belt across the wings, sometimes white washed 
with fulvous, as M. Boisduval says. In the dry form, which 
is much larger and with strongly falcate primaries, the male 
has an orange belt touched with bluish white towards the 
abdominal margin ; the female has the belt blue, with tawny 
orange outer border. 
35. Precis actia. 
Precis actia, Distant, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 185, pl. xix. fig. 7. 
©. Precis vetula, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 101 (1885). 
‘Kast Africa. B. M. 
The dry phase is the one described, and differs markedly 
from that phase of P. pelarga in always showing more or Jess 
blue inner shading to the discal belt in both sexes, and in the 
double angulation of the outer edge of the brown basal three 
fifths of the primaries. The wet phase is probably confounded 
in most collections with P. Galami, from which the double 
angulation of the outer edge of the basal area and the pure 
white defined belt which occupies the inner two thirds of the 
discal belt in the female at once distinguish it. We have 
two examples of an intermediate phase from Nyasaland in 
which both sexes show a slight shade of blue on the more 
restricted white portion of the discal belt towards the abdo- 
minal margin of secondaries, but retain the non-faleate form 
of primaries. 
We now come to a group of species in which the colouring 
of the upper surface is tolerably uniform at all seasons and 
that of the under surface always more or less leaf-like in 
character. One of these, which used to be widely separated 
from Precis and placed near Kallima, I characterized as a new 
genus under the name of Corypheola in 1878; but Prof. Auri- 
villius has correctly pointed out (Rhop. AXthiop. p. 131) that 
it agrees both in structure and character of marking with 
Precis. 
36. Precis sinuata. 
Precis sinuata, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1880, p. 477. 
Precis pelargoides, Aurivillius, Ent. Tidskr. xii. p. 204 (1891). 
Precis serena, Weymer, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 86. 
West Africa. B. M. 
I have no doubt, if I have correctly identified P. pelar- 
goides, that it represents the wet phase of this species, from 
