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36. Precis tukfoa (Wallengr.). 



Salamis tul'uoa, Wallengr. K. Sv. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1857 — Lep. 

 Khop. Caffr. p. 25. u. 6. 



Three specimens from the Mineni Valley do not differ from 

 more southern examples. 



37. Precis cuama (Hewits.). 



Junonia cuama, Hemts. Exot. Butt. iii. p. 25, pi. 13. figs. 4, 5 

 (1864). 



Precis cuama, Trim. Proe. Zool. Hoe. 1891, p. 74. n. 20. 



Six examples from the Mineni Valley and two fi-om Vunduzi 

 River. Most of the specimens agree with those from Ehanda and 

 the Okavango River noted by me (loc. cit.) as much yellower than 

 the figure of the type, and as wanting (on both surfaces) the 

 conspicuous white centre of the second and third fuscous spots in 

 the discal row of the fore \vingf<, and (on the up])erside) the paler 

 cloud in the middle of the hind wings ; but two of the Mineni 

 males are intermediate in these respects, approaching the type in 

 tint, having the pale cloud faintly shown in the hind wings, and 

 presenting the two white spots in the fore wings on both surfaces. 

 The underside is most variable in colouring — only one of the two 

 last-mentioned individuals agreeing fairly with the figure of the 

 type, the other being dull and with little trace of rufous, but with 

 all the markings faint, and a strong bronzy surface-gloss ; while 

 the yellower examples exhibit beneath different admixtures of 

 ochre-yellow and ferruginous brown, with the markings ashy grey 

 and fuscous, in some cases faintly glossed with violaceous. 



This Butterfly is noted as frequenting the shade of the forest, 

 and when settled to be scarcely distinguishable from faded leaves. 



38. Precis simia, Wallengr. (Plate IV. fig. 5, J •) 



Precis simia, Wallengr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857 — Lep. 

 Rhop. Caffr. p. 26. n. 2 ; Trimen, S.-Afr. Butt. i. p. 227. n. 70 

 (1887). 



Of this very rare species — of which the only examples hitherto 

 known to me were the type (collected by Wahlberg) in the 

 Stockholm Museum and a very worn male taken by Col. Bowker 

 at Durban — there are four male examples, three from the Mineni 

 Valley and one from Christmas Pass. The three former are 

 typical, agreeing well with the careful figure of the type (a $ , 

 judging from the want of the anal-angular projection in the hind 

 wings), except in having all the fuscous markings larger ; but the 

 fourth has on the upperside a yellowish-white median discal cloud 

 in the hind wings, and a similar smaller lower discal cloud in the 

 fore wings, and all the black spots of the discal series in the fore 

 wings smaller ; while on the underside the basal fuscous in both 

 wings is much effaced by the enlargement (and in the hind wings 

 actual confluence at many points) of the enclosed markings of the 

 ground-colour, and there is also a streak of the ground-colour, 



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