NYMPSALIN^. 39 



Larva long, somewliat slender, purple-black, with a dorsal and lateral series of 

 short delicate branched blue spines; a central lateral row of white spots. Pupa 

 slender, head produced into two points, constricted behind the thorax ; pale reddish- 

 purple, numerously dotted with black. Feeds on Acanthads. 



" Taken in February and August in low country forest-paths in the Eastern 

 Province " (Rutchison). 



Genus PRECIS. 



Precis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 33 (1816); Felder, Neues Lep. p. 13. 

 Junonia, sect. 2, Precis, Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. p. 209. 



Wings short, broad : forewing triangular, costa much arched, exterior margin 

 waved, truncated at the apex and excavated in the middle, posterior margin nearly 

 straight ; costal vein short ; first and second subcostal branches short, emitted close 

 to end of the ceU ; third trifurcate, emitted at nearly half length beyond the cell, 

 fourth and fifth at three-fourths beyond; upper discocellular angled close to the 

 subcostal, concave below, lower discocellular very slender, obliquely recurved ; radials 

 from the angle and end of the upper ; cell short, broad ; two upper median branches 

 from angle at end of the cell, lower widely separated : hindwing bluntly-oval, exterior 

 margin very convex, waved and prolonged into a very short tail at anal angle, 

 abdominal margin long, concave above anal angle ; costal vein with a short basal 

 spur, much arched from the base and extending to the apex, base of subcostal very 

 short, two subcostal branches and radial very long ; cell open ; two upper median 

 branches short and emitted from opposite one-fourth distance beyond base of radial, 

 lower median opposite its base ; submedian extending to anal angle, internal vein 

 short. Body short, palpi projecting in front, second joint long, third short and 

 pointed, pilose above ; legs slender ; antennas slender, club stout. 



PRECIS IPHITA (Plate 21, Pig. 1 a, b). 



Papilio Iphita, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 209, f. C, D. (1779). 

 Precis Iphita, Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 143. 

 Junonia Iphita, Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 76. 

 Precis intermedia, Felder, Reise Novara Lep. iii. p. 402 (1867). 



Male and female. Upperside dark olive-brown ; both wings with the basal half 

 darker brown, the divisional border across the disc being darkest, outwardly-angular 

 from the costa of forewing and slightly waved on the hindwing ; a dark outer discal 

 fascia traversed on the forewing by one or two (or more) indistinct oceUated spots, 

 and on the hindwing by a series of distinct ochreous-ringed ocelli ; a submarginal 



