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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. Soutli Tropical. 
61. Eastern Interior. — Shashani River {F. C. Selous). "Victoria 
Nyanza (Eev. J. Hannington).^^ — A. G. Butler. 
75. (10.) Precis natalica, Felder. 
Precis natalica, FekL, AVien. Ent. Monats., iv. p. 106 (i860). 
Junonia Hecate, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 140, n. 84(1862); and ii. 
pi. iii. f. 6 (1866). 
Exp. al, 2 in. 2 lin. — 2 in. 5 lin. 
Dull greyish-brown, with dull ochreous-red transverse strim and ocel- 
lated sjpots ; four conspicuous spiots near apex of fore-wing. 
Fore-wing : two oclireous-red, blackish-edged stride across discoidal 
cell, the outer one closing cell ; a broad space on costa, commencing a 
little beyond extremity of cell, is mnch darker than rest of wing, and 
contains three pnre white spots, arranged transversely from first sub- 
costal to third median nervule ; a dark stripe, including an indistinct 
dull-red one, extends from third median nervule, immediately before 
the lowest white spot, to a little beyond middle of inner margin; a 
small pure-white spot on costa close to apex commences a row of 
blackish spots parallel to hind-margin, between nervules, as far as sub- 
median nervure, the two lowest spots the largest, and always surrounded 
by an ochreous-red ring, wider on the inner side, — the other spots 
occasionally in indistinct smaller rings, some of them generally with 
minute bluish pupils ; beyond these ocellate spots are two dark-brown 
or blackish lunulate striae bordering hind-margin ; fringe varied with 
white and brown. Hind-iuing : a transverse, dull ochreous-red, black- 
edged stria about middle of discoidal cell, composed of two small 
spots, and a similar stria at extremity of cell ; the dark stripe of fore- 
wing, enclosing a dull-red one, is continued across this wing, gradually 
narrowing towards inner margin, where, a little before anal angle, it 
becomes obsolete ; beyond it, a transverse row of more or less con- 
spicuous ochreous-red ocelli, with blue-dotted black centres, five in 
number, situated between first subcostal nervule and first median 
nervule, — the last spot the largest and brightest, and in a distinct, 
thin, yellow ring ; in some specimens, a sixth similar but much smaller 
(occasionally minute) ocellus, above submedian nervure ; two dark- 
brown, lunulate streaks beyond ocelli, parallel to hind-margin, but 
more continuous than in fore-wiug, — darker at anal angle, where there 
is a slight irroration of blue-grey scales ; fringe brown, slightly marked 
with white. Under side. — Verij variable : ground-colour commonly 
much pcder than on upper side. Fore-iving : an additional dull-red 
mark in discoidal cell, at base ; three white spots beyond cell, in 
darker portion, rather larger, commonly contiguous, — the row continued 
to first median nervule by two pale markings, immediately beneath 
which is a large, whitish spot ; before this spot, and likewise imme- 
