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SOUTH-AFKICAN BUTTEKFLIES. 
it of the singular seasonal form Prorsa of tlie European Araschnia Levana (L.) 
The elongation of the wings, combined with the fuscous and white colouring, 
give it much the appearance of a small Ne/ptis.'^ 
The only South-African specimen of this butterfly that I have seen is a 5 
sent to me by the late Mr. E. C. Buxton in 1874, with the note that it had 
been captured at D'Urban, Natal, in the previous year, and was the only indi- 
vidual met with. This example agrees in all respects with specimens from 
Tropical Western Africa. 
Localities of Precis Sophia. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban (E. C. Buxton). 
II. Other African Eegions. 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast.— Fernando Po (Coll. Brit. Mus.) Gold Coast 
(/. M. Pasl-). Sierra Leone (Coll. Brit Mus.) 
b. Eastern Coast. — "Abyssinia: Lake Tsana (^Raffray)." — Oberthiir. 
67. (2.) Precis Cloantha, (Cramer). 
9 Papilio Cloantha, Cram., Pap. Exot., iii. t. cccxxxviii., IF. a, b (17 82). 
$ Vanessa Cloantha, Godt,, Enc. Meth., ix. p. 322, n. 61 (181 9). 
$ „ ,, Chcnu., Enc. d'Hist. Nat. -Pap., pi. 26, f. 3 (1852). 
$ Junonia Cloantha, Trim., Khop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 137, n. 83 (1862). 
Exp. al., 2 in. 3—9^ lin. 
Brighter or duller warm orange-ochreoiis ; ivith transverse hlach 
streaks, and hlue-centred hlaek ocelli. 
$ A splendid purple lustre, strongest over basal half of v^iugs, is 
visible in certain lights. Fore-wing : base clouded v^ith black, nar- 
rowly so on costa, more widely on median nervure, and extending 
nearly to middle on inner margin ; two moderately-broad, transverse, 
black streaks in discoidal cell, the outer one closing cell ; a similar 
streak beyond middle, between subcostal nervure and third median 
nervule, which, interrupted on the latter nervnle, is continued thence 
by an irregular streak, inclining inwardly, to submedian nervure, where 
it joins the black clouding from base ; in some distinctly-marked speci- 
mens, the streak closing cell is also, though interrupted at insertion of 
second median nervule, produced to join basal black ; beyond the striae 
a black mark on costa commences a row of six black, blue-centred ocelli, 
of which the first three are contiguous, the largest and lowest ocellus 
being between second and first median nervules, — the line of spots 
being parallel to hind-margin ; beyond ocelli a transverse, thin, inter- 
rupted, macular, black streak, broader and more continuous on costa and 
1 M. Oberthiir mentions {^Jtiides d'Ent, iii. (Oct. 1878), p. 27) that this variety occurs, 
and that some examples exhibit the passage between the different colorations. He does 
not say, however, whether the variety in question obtains in the female as well as in the 
male. 
