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Show 1895.] FBOM BE1TISH CENTEAL AFEICA. 257 23. EUBALIA MIMA. Diadema mima, Trimen, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvi. p. 506 note, pi. xliii. fig. 7 (1869). Two females, Zomba. Both sexes of this fine Euralia are in the Hypolimnas group of the Godman and Salvin collection recently added to the Museum series. The species is a good copy of Amauris whytei, the Nyasa representative of A. albimaculata, which it doubtless mimics in Natal, as M r . Trimen observes. 24. JUNONIA ABTAXIA. Junonia artaxia, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Jun, pi. i. fig. 6 (1864). 2, Zomba. 25. JUNONIA PAVONINA, sp. n. (Plate XVI. figs. 1-3.) Allied to J. artaxia. Primaries above having the same general aspect, but brilliantly glossed all over with peacock-blue ; the broad black patch from costa only represented by a diffused dark shade, with sinuous external edge, beyond end of discoidal cell; the subapical whitish bar of J. artaxia represented by an angulated blue band enclosing an oblique trifid snow-white streak near the costa; and halfway between this band and the end of the cell there are three or four transverse blue spots bounding the upper portion of the dark shade previously noted; a slightly irregular, but not sinuated black stripe separates the angular blue subapical band from a diffused blue marginal band which tapers along the edge of the black stripe at its upper extremity and along the margin at its lower extremity; fringe dull white, grey towards apex and external angle and traversed throughout by a dusky line flecked with black: secondaries brilliant peacock-blue in tbe male, and the centre of the wing to beyond the middle blue in the female; ocelli of nearly equal size, a little brighter in colouring than \nJ. artaxia ; submarginal lines wider and blacker: body slightly darker. Uuder surface very dissimilar, olive-brown; the pattern of the primaries nearly as in J. nachtigalii, but only glossed with purple below the cell; the four transverse stripes sharply defined and whity-brown, slightly glossed with blue below the median veiu ; an apical costal cuneiform whitish patch, partly edged with diffused white spots towards costal margin ; ocelli small, olivaceous grey, with yellowish iris flecked internally with red ; submarginal line slender, blackish, irregularly undulated : secondaries somewhat paler and greyer, especially towards abdominal margin ; a sharply defined, blackish-edged, central clear yellowish-white stripe from costa to anal angle; two other, less sharply defined stripes between the latter at the base from costa to submedian vein, where they unite in a loop, the inner stripe being straight and the outer obtusely elbowed ; ocelli slightly larger than on the primaries, but similar in character, followed by a nebulous sinuated streak; submarginal line steel-bluish, P R O C . Z O O L . Soc-1895, N o . X V I I . 17 |
