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66. (1.) Precis Sophia, (Fabricins). 
Paiyilio Soplda, Fab., Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 248, n. 771 (1793). 
Donov., Ins. Iiul., t. 36, f. 3 (1800) [teste W. F. Kirby]. 
Vanessa Sophia, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. Suppl. p. 823 (18 19). 
Junonia {Precis) Sophia, DoubL, Gen. Diurn. Lep.,p. 210, n. 23 (1846-50). 
Exp. al, I in. 10- 11 lin. 
^ Broivn, with pale ontfoiis-ochrcous hands; on hind-margins two 
parallel, ill-defined, sub-lunulated, brownisli-grey streaks, the inner one 
immediately preceded by a row of indistinct blackish spots. Fore- 
iving : base widely suffused with deep brownish fulvous; immediately 
beyond discoidal cell a strongly-curved transverse band, convex out- 
wardly, of five or six divisions ; two double black strige across discoidal 
cell ; at extremity of cell a long, oblique, black stria, extending through 
transverse band to submedian nervure beyond middle ; a moderately 
wide subapical bar of three divisions, irregular, slightly convex out- 
wardly ; between lower end of subapical bar and submedian ner- 
vure, a row of three indistinct, large, blackish spots. Hincl-unng : base 
fuscous, crossed by two waved, short, disco-cellular rufous striae ; a 
median band quite across wing, rather broad except for a sudden nar- 
rowing on costa ; between first and second median nervules, the band 
is externally pierced by a well-marked straight brown streak, and 
between first median nervule and submedian nervure by a shorter and 
blunted projection ; just beyond band, a row of five to six large blackish 
spots. Cilia brown, with white inter-nervular interruptions. Under 
SIDE. — Rufous-ochreous of base and bands rejdaced hy p)ale whitish- 
creamy ; all strice and spots very distinct, cons^ncuous ; along hind- 
margins, a yellow streak, black-edged on both sides. Fore-ioing : in 
discoidal cell, clear-rufous fills the space on each side of the two pale- 
creamy black-edged striae ; subapical bar suffused externally ; between 
it and apex a minute oblique whitish streak. Hind-unng : three highly 
irregular, basal, transverse blackish streaks, forming a network of 
markings ; two streaks outwardly piercing central band united in an 
irregular W-like marking, of which the innermost arm is extended as 
far as the basal marking. 
$ Similar, paler, the hands hroader. Fore-vnng : basal rufous much 
reduced, and with a fuscous tinge. Under side. — Subapical bar of 
fore-wing and central band of hind-wing widely suffused externally, so 
as to occupy the greater part of hind-margin. 
Var. {t). 
Fnscons, with the ordinary transverse hand common to hoth ivings, 
and the stthcqncal har of fore-iving tvhite and somewhat narroived. 
Under side normal. 
Fore-wing elongated in apical, hind-w^ing in anal-angular portion. 
This curious variety is represented in the British Museum by an example 
from Fernando Po, and in the South-African IMuseum by one taken on the 
Gold Coast by Mr. J. Morton Pask, of H.M.S. Dmid. One is reminded by 
