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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
76. (11.) Precis Elgiva, (Hewitson). 
Junonia Elgiva, He wits., Exot. Butt., iii. pi. 13, f. i (1864). 
Junonia Xipha, Butl., Cist. Ent., i. p. 7 (1869). 
Exp. al.y 2 in. — 2 in. lin. 
Dark-hroiun ; a common transverse discal hand of ochre-yellotv, 
hounded externally on Jiind-wing hy a row of ocellated spots. Fore- 
loing : an indistinct dull-reddish transverse stria edged narrowly on 
both sides with blackish, about middle of discoidal cell, and a similar, 
more waved, stria at extremity of cell ; discal band commencing 
narrowly near costa about middle, but widening gradually downward 
to inner margin, — its outer edge much curved posteriorly, its inner 
edge bluntly angulated on third median nervule ; just within the 
outer edge of the band (and usually touching the brown ground- 
colour) in its lower half, a row of three rather suffused inter-nervular 
dark-brown spots, of which the lowest is geminate ; close to costa 
and near apex, two very small white spots, of which the lower is 
sometimes obsolete ; a moderately wide hind-marginal border of paler 
brown traversed longitudinally by a dark-brown streak. Hind-wing : 
closing discoidal cell, a faint reddish stria like that in fore-wing, but 
narrower and straighter ; discal band commencing narrowly and palely 
on costa beyond middle, its inner edge only slightly waved, its outer 
edge directly bounded by a row of six ocellated spots ; of these spots 
all but the two lowest are externally imperfect and obscured with dark- 
brown, but the two complete ones are dark-red, ringed with ochre- 
yellow and blackish, and centred with black bearing a bluish pupil, 
— the sixth or last being geminate and bipupillate ; hind-marginal 
border as in fore-wing ; anal-angular process irrorated with bluish. 
Cilia dark-brown, with small but distinct white inter-nervular spots. 
Under side. — Pale dull-creamy., streal'cd and clouded with hroivn ; a 
common median dark-brown streak from costa of fore-wing to anal 
angle of hind-wing, and a common discal row of ocelli ; two sub- 
marginal brown streaks, the inner much more dentated than the outer 
one. Fore-wing : cellular striae distinct, ochre-brown, both prolonged 
as far as submedian nervure ; beyond them a third, darker, broader, 
more denticulated stria immediately preceding the dark-brown trans- 
verse streak ; apical area clouded with brown, which extends along 
nearly all the hind-margin ; discal row of ocelli commencing with the 
lower of the two very small white spots near apex, and having the 
second, third, and fourth very small and indistinct, but the fifth and 
sixth large and better marked, being pale-ochreous in a brown ring 
and centred with a whitish-pupilled blackish spot. Hind-wing : 
median dark-brown streak conspicuous, slightly suffused with reddish- 
brown; before middle a similar but much more curved and irregular 
transverse streak ; three or four thin brown striolse in discoidal cell ; 
of the six discal ocelli the third and fourth are very small and imper^ 
