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Show 32 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, Genus PYRAMEIS, E. Doubl. 30. PYRAMEIS CARDUI (Linn.). Two examples from Christmas Pass. Genus JUNONIA, E. Doubl. 31. JUNONIA OEBRENE, Trim. Junonia cebrene, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1870, p. 353. One specimen from Umtali, one from Christmas Pass, and two from Mineni Valley. 32. JUNONIA CLELIA (Cram.). Papilio clelia, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. t. xxi. figs. E, F (1775). Two specimens from the Mineni Valley. 33. JUNONIA BOOPIS, Trim. Junonia boopis, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 331. The four examples (one from Umtali, one from Sikuva Eiver, and two from Mineni Valley) agree with the typical Transvaal specimens. Genus PRECIS, E. Doubl. 34. PRECIS CLOANTHA (Cram.)1. Papilio cloantha, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. t. cccxxxviii. figs. (1782). Eighteen examples (seventeen from the Mineni Valley) are highly variable in the tint of the underside, five being of an unusually dark brown. 35. PRECIS CERYNE (Boisd.). Salamis ceryne, Boisd. App. Voy. de Deleg. p. 592. n. 68 (1847). Twelve specimens from the Mineni Valley and one from Lusika Eiver are in all respects like typical examples from Natal. 1 In my notes on this species (S.-Afr. Butt. i. pp. 220 and 223) I pointed out the exceptionally robust structure, gradually clavate antennae, and thick hairy wings of this Butterfly, in comparison with the other species of Precis. Mr. Cecil N . Barker has recently reared P. cloantha from a larva found at Malvern, Natal; and, from the drawings and description he has kindly sent me, it is apparent that the larva presents the peculiarity of having the two rather long cephalic horns clubbed at the tip, while the pupa is much thickened about' the middle and is singularly smooth, wanting all the prominent pointed tubercles so conspicuous dorsally and laterally in the pupae of P. octavia and P. sesamus. The larva is described as golden yellow, each segment having a median transverse purplish-black bar interrupted both subdorsally and on the spiracular line ; the bristled spines spring from these bars ; head dull orange, with an inverted V °f purplish black frontally ; legs dark plum-colour with a black ring about middle. The pupa is figured as greenish yellow, with a few dull-purplish spots on underside of head, sides of thorax, and bases and hind margins of wing-covers; abdomen with seven rows (longitudinal) of dull-purplish dots. The larva was found on October 23rd, 1892; it began pupation on the 27th ; and a male imago emerged on November 11th. The food-plant is not specified by name, but was a " bush herb with lilac-blue flowers." |