1895.] FROM BElTlsa CENTEAL AFRICA. 257 



23. BUEALIA MIMA. 



Diadema mima, Trimen, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. p. 506 note, 

 pi. xliii. fig. 7 (1869). 



Two females, Zomba. 



Both sexes of this fine Euralia are in the Hijpolimnas group of 

 the Godman and Salvin collection recently added to the Museum 

 series. The species is a good copy of Amaurls whi/tei, the Nyasa 

 representative of A. albimaculata, which it doubtless mimics in 

 Natal, as Mr. Trimen observes. 



24. JUNONIA ARTAXIA. 



Junonia artaxia, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Jun. pi. i. fig. 6 

 (1864). 



2 , Zomba. 



25. JiTNONiA PATONiNA, sp. n. (Plate XVI. figs. 1-3.) 



Allied to J. artaxia. Primaries above having the same general 

 aspect, but brilliantly glossed all over with peacock-blue ; the 

 broad black patch from costa only represented by a diffused dark 

 shade, with sinuous external edge, beyond end of discoidal cell ; 

 the subapical whitish bar of J. artaxia represented by an angulated 

 blue band enclosing an oblique trifid snow-white streak near the 

 costa ; and halfway between this band and the end of the cell 

 there are three or four transverse blue spots bounding the upper 

 portion of the dark shade previously noted ; a slightly irregular, 

 but not sinuated black stripe separates the angular blue subapical 

 band from a diffused blue marginal band which tapers along the 

 edge of the black stripe at its upper extremity and along the margin 

 at its lower extremity ; fringe dull white, grey towards apex and 

 external angle and traversed throughout by a dusky line flecked 

 with black : secondaries brilliant peacock-blue iu the male, and the 

 centre of the wing to beyond the middle blue in the female; ocelli 

 of nearly equal size, a little brighter in colouring than in J. artaxia ; 

 submarginal lines wider and blacker: body slightly darker. Under 

 surface very dissimilar, olive-bro«'n ; the pattern of the primaries 

 nearly as in J. 7iac7iti[/alii, but only glossed with purple below the 

 cell; the four transverse stripes sharply defined and whity-brown, 

 slightly glossed with blue below the median vein ; an apical costal 

 cuneiform whitish patch, partly edged with diffused white spots 

 towards costal margin ; ocelli small, olivaceous grey, with yellowish 

 iris flecked internally with red ; submarginal line slender, blackish, 

 irregularly undulated : secondaries somewhat paler and greyer, 

 especially towards abdominal margin ; a sharply defined, blackish- 

 edged, central clear yellowish -white stripe from costa to anal angle ; 

 two other, less sharply defined stripes between the latter at the 

 base from costa to submedian vein, where they unite in a loop, the 

 inner stripe being straight and the outer obtusely elbowed ; ocelli 

 slightly larger than on the primaries, but similar in character, fol- 

 lowed by a nebulous sinuated streak ; submarginal line steel-bluish, 



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