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Show 482 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Nov. 4, the mimics of dorippus with white and alcippus are rather rarer than the other types."- J. W. T. As might be expected, this copy of Limnas chrysippus is very inconstant in coloration at Aden ; a specimen taken on the 27th March has lost the black apical patch, and the white subapical band is replaced by a pale tawny band (L. inaria, Cramer), so that this insect more nearly resembles the Indo-African type of L. dorippus ; furthermore Col. Swinhoe confirms Major Yerbury's note to the effect that some females have white on the secondaries like L. alcippus, and thus would agree with my H. alcippoides from the Victoria Nyanza. An instance of this kind points without question to some relationship between the females of H. misippus and the Limnas which they copy, and is a sufficient answer to those who dispute the existence of protective assimilation. 4. JUNONIA HERE. Junonia here, Lang, Entomologist, p. 206 (Sept. 1884). 8, Haithalkim, 4th April, 1884. This species, which we have also from Bagdad, has long been confounded with J. orithyia of China. It, however, is constantly smaller, with the primaries blacker ; the discoidal spots blue instead of scarlet; the external blue area transverse and with a sharply defined straight inner edge ; the white band of the primaries is narrow, and the posterior ocellus little more than a black patch; the anterior ocellus of the secondaries is also represented by a large rounded black spot; the external border greenish-grey; on the under surface the apical area of the primaries and the whole of the secondaries are of a whitish stone-colour with darker and paler markings, but the secondaries correspond with those of true J. orithyia in the absence of distinct ocelli. 5. JUNONIA CLELIA. Papilio clelia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. xxi. E, F (1775). 8, Huswah, 24th June, 1883. 6. JUNONIA CEBRENE. Junonia cebrene, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 353. 8 2, Aden, 10th October, 1883. Mr. Kirby quotes " J. crebrene" Butler, as a synonym of this species. As, however, m y paper was read and ordered for publication before m y friend Trimen's was received by the Entomological Society, as the Secretary also altered the name which I had proposed and, without consulting me, gave Trimen's paper precedence in the volume, either the species should be quoted as mine, or the synonym J. crebrene (sic) ascribed to the person from whose pen it emanated ; I should prefer the latter course. The occurrence of Pyrameis cardui is noted by Major Yerbury. |