356 NYMPHALID^;. 



half length of wing ; lower discocellular absent ; cell open ; vein 6 

 closely approximate at base to vein 7, 10 and 11 free. Hind 

 wing : costa widely arched, apex rounded ; tennen arched and 

 slightly scalloped ; tornus produced, acutely angulated, especially 

 in the dry-season forms; cell open; distance at base of veins 6 

 and 7 about half that between 7 and 8. Antennae about half 

 length of fore wing, club more or less abrupt, flattened ; palpi 

 subporrect, broad in front, second joint gradually incrassate, third 

 joint short, acute. 



The forms in this genus are very variable. Seasonal poly- 

 morphism is very prevalent among them, and individual aberra- 

 tions not uncommon. One such aberration of J. ipliita has been 

 described by Moschler, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1872, p. 337, under the 

 name Precis liopfftri. 



Key to the forms of Junonia. 



a. Upperside ground-colour brown. 



a'. Fore wing without yellow spots or discal 



band on upperside J. iphita, p. 35G. 



b'. Fore wing with yellow spots or a whitish 

 discal band on upperside. 

 a 2 . Fore wing with yellow spots on upper- 

 side J. lemonias, p. 357. 



b 2 . Fore wing with an oblique whitish short 



discal band on upperside J. orithya $ , p. 358. 



b. Upperside ground-colour yellow. , J. hie?'ta, p. 360. 



c. Upperside ground-colour: fore wing black, 



hind wing blue J. orithya tf , p. 358. 



d. Upperside ground-colour pale lavender-grey 



or brown J. atlites, p. 359. 



e. Upperside ground-colour rich orange-yellow. . J. almana, p, 361. 



370. Junonia iphita, Cramer (Papilio), Pap. Exot. hi, 1779, pi. 209. 

 figs. C, D ; Butler, Cat. Fab. Lep. Brit. Mus. 1869, p. 76 ; 

 Moore (Precis), Lep. Ceyl. i, 1881, p. 39, pi. 21, figs. 1, 1 a, 1 b ; 

 de N. (Precis) Butt. Ind. ii, 1886, p. 63, pi. 19, fig. 84 J; David- 

 son Sf Aitken (Precis), Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. 1890, p. 271 ; Moore, 

 Lep. Ind. iv, 1899^1900, p. 64, pi. 309, figs. 1, 1 a-1 e, cS $ . 



<5 $ . Upperside brown of varying depths of colour. Fore 

 wing : cell with one pair of subbasal and one pair of apical 

 transverse sinuous fasciae, the outermost defining the disco- 

 cellulars ; a short, broad, dark, oblique fascia beyond to vein 4, its 

 inner margin diffuse, its outer sinuous but sharply defined ; below 

 vein 4 a sinuous, transverse, more faint fascia, followed by a discal 

 blackish fascia, very broad and diffuse, below costa, bordered by a 

 row of faint ocelli, and a postdiscal and a subterminal similar 

 fascia following the outline of the termen. Hind wing with a 

 slender blackish loop near apex of cellular area ; a broad inwardly 

 diffuse, outwardly well-defined short discal fascia in continuation 

 of the one on the fore wing ; a series of postdiscal somewhat 

 ochraceous ocelli with black pupils minutely centred with white ; 



