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fecujbiit ibo others are clistiiictjtlie fifth having the colours almost as bright 
as on the upper side ; hind-margin clouded with brownish inferiorly. 
The colouring of the under side varies much, some specimens being 
suffused with a pale-olivaceous or dull-brownish tinge generally, while 
a few examples present an almost uniform dull creamy-ferruginous 
tint, except for the dark median streak inwardly bordered rather con- 
spicuously with ochre-yellow. The sexes are quite alike, except that 
in the $ the discal band of the upper side is rather broader. 
P. Elgiva is the Southern representative of P. Terea (Drury), which 
inhabits Tropical Western Africa. It is readily separable on the upper 
side by its much narrower ochre-yellow discal band (untraversed by the 
longitudinal streak so conspicuous in Terea), and by its having in the 
fore-wing only two subapical small white spots, instead of a submar- 
ginal row of six or seven subocellate ones, and in the hind-wing much 
better defined ocelli. On the under side all the markings in Elgiva 
(except in the rather rare examples coloured with creamy-ferruginous) 
are darker and browner and more strongly developed, especially the 
strise before middle and the discal ocelli. 
I first met with this fine Precis near the Tongaati River, in Natal, on the 
20th March 1867, and a few days afterwards fell in with it again on the 
Umhlanga, not far from D'Urban. The neighbourhood of the latter place has 
since yielded many specimens to Mr. W. D. Gooch and Colonel Bowker, and 
the latter has sent me the paired sexes taken in March 1879 and April 1881. 
The butterfly is conspicuous on the wing, and has quite the same habits as P. 
natalica, flitting about near the herbage in wooded spots. 
Mr. Hewitson's figure is from a Zambesian example, apparently faded, the 
colouring being considerably paler than in good Natalian examples. 
Localities of Precis Elgiva. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban (/. H. Bowker and W. D. Goocli). 
Umhlanga. Tongaati. 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. "Western Coast. — "Angola (Pogge)." — Dewitz. 
h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi (/. Dickinson). — HcAvitson. "Tchou- 
acka (Pa fray).'' — Oberthiir. 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast.— " Old Calabar (Coll. Druce)."— Butler. 
77. (12.) Precis Tugela, Trimen. 
Plate IY. fig. 5 ( ? ). 
Precis Tugela, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1879, P- 334- 
Exp. al., 2 in. 5I lin. ($) ; 2 in. 1 1 lin. ($). 
$ Dark-brown, with liroad oclire-ycllow discal hand. Fore-wing : 
band commencing on costa, curved convexly outwardly, its edges irre- 
gular (especially the inner one, which is dee/ply indented hy ground- 
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