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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 35 45. PRECIS ARTAXIA (Hewits.). Junonia artaxia, Hewits. op. cit. iii. p. 26, pi. 13. fig. 6 (1864). Precis artaxia, Trim. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 75. n. 24 Of this very striking and singularly-coloured Precis there is a fine series of 41 examples, of which 37 were taken in the Mineni Valley from 6th to 26th March, 3 in Christmas Pass in the first half of February, and 1 on the Lusika Eiver early in April. The sexes scarcely differ in colouring, the female being somewhat paler occasionally. Hewitson figures an example in which the smaller lower ocellus ou the upperside of the hind wings is wanting, and in his description omits all mention of this marking, although it was present in two out of the three Zambesian specimens which I examined in his collection in the year 1867, and, although varying in size, is very rarely obsolete or even indistinct. The small ocellus in a corresponding position in the fore wings is, on the contrary, often obsolescent and never very distinct. The underside varies considerably in colour, presenting several shades in which brown or grey predominate, and being in some cases glossed with bronzy greenish or with pale dull violaceous. The markings on this surface vary in distinctness, especially the nearly straight ochre-yellow streak, outwardly bordered with dark brown, which crosses the middle of the hind wings. There is a tendency to the ocellate form in most of the very small indistinct spots of the common discal series, and two of these, considerably larger than the rest, represent respectively the upperside ocelli in the fore wings and the superior portion of the hind wings. Mr. Selous notes that P. artaxia is usually numerous in the shady forests to which it is restricted. During its very short and hurried flight the large many-coloured ocelli of the hind wings are conspicuous, but it settles again almost immediately ou the ground at the foot of trees, where the dead-leaf-like underside effectually conceals it. Although indisposed to take wing ordinarily, it becomes wary when alarmed by pursuit. Genus SALAMIS, Boisd. 46. SALAMIS ANACARDII (Linn.). Papilio anacardii, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 236. n. 55 (1764). The specimens taken (5 at Christmas Pass, 1 at Eevue Eiver, and 6 on the Pungwe Eiver) are like those from Natal, having a clearer paler colour, with a less intense rosy-violet gloss, than the tropical West-African examples. 47. SALAMIS NEBULOSA, Trim. Salamis nebulosa,, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 441; S.-Afr. Butt. i. p. 246. n. 79, pi. iv. fig. 6 (1887). The only example, taken on the Pungwe Eiver, about 15 miles above Sarmento, is a female, larger (exp. al. 3 in. 2 | lin.) and with considerably broader fuscous upperside marking than the Zulu- 3* |