904 nu. A. G, BUTLER OK BUTTERFLIES [NoV. 29, 



NXMPHALINiE. 



6. Chaeaxbs saturnus Butl. 



c? d" , Salisbury, 30th March and 3rd and lOth April, 1898. 



Mr. Marshall labels one of these as " 2=laticincta Butl."; but it 

 is not at all like that form, which I believe to be confined to the 

 Nyasa district. I see nothing in Mr. Marshall's example to dis- 

 tinguish it from any other S. African specimens, whereas probably 

 most of the Continental Lepidopterists would have unhesitatingly 

 described the form C. laticinctus as a distinct species, instead of a 

 common local aberration. 



7. JuNONiA SESAMUS Trim, (and var. calesceiis). 



Salisbury, 5000 feet (wet and drv forms), 13th February; dry 

 form, 13th, 16th, 20th, and 23rd March, 1898. 



It is quite evident, although Mr. Marshall bred ./. sesamus from 

 eggs laid by J. calescens, that both forms ily together in the wet 

 season : it is therefore better to call /. calescens a dry phase than 

 a dry-season form. One of Mr. Marshall's examples is labelled 

 " Bred from egg laid by P. octavia-nataleusis. Stages : Egg 13th- 

 ISth Febr., larva 19th Febr. -19th Mar., pupa 20thMar.-4th Apr. 

 1898." This specimen therefore apparently emerged on the 5th 

 April. 



I object to the name " Precis octavia-natalensis " for the follow- 

 ing reasons : — Precis is a synonym of Junonia ; octavia is a distinct 

 West-African species ; natalensis was a name proposed for the wet 

 form of P. sesamus, under the impression that it was a variety of 

 the Western insect, and is objectionable because the genus already 

 contains a species named naialica. 



8. Junonia archesia Cram. 



5, dry form, Salisbury, 11th May, 1898. 



9. Junonia cuama Hewits. 



6 6, 2 ? , " dry form," Salisbury, 9th, 13th, 16th, and 23rd 

 March ; 10th April, 1898. 



The examples vary a good deal on both surfaces, but do not in 

 the least i-esemble the following, which Mr. Marshall unaccountably 

 labels as its " wet form" although, as usual, caught at the same time*. 



10. Junonia simia Wallgr. 



6 , " wet-form", Salisburv, 27th February ; $ , 13th March, 

 1898. 



11. Junonia boopis Trim. 



? ? , Salisbury, 4th and 18th June, 1898. 



^ Two very distinct forms of J. cuama are forwarded. One of them, which is 

 labelled " Early dry form." seems to have appeared in the latter half of March ; 

 a more heavily marked and more round-winged form, taken a fortnight earlier, 

 looks like its wet form ; but is said to be the " First appearance of the dry form." 



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