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Show 62 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [Jan. 17, 29. JUNONIA WESTERMANNI. Junonia westermanni, Westwood, Ent. Month. Mag. vi. p. 278 (1870). 3 . Monbuttu, July or August. 30. JUNONIA CLELIA. Papilio clelia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 21. E, F (1775). 3 2 • Stazione Bauri, September 1883 ; Fdda, 20th November, 1885 ; Monbuttu in July and August; Wadelai, 11th, 13th, 20th, 27th, and 31st January, 1887. 31. JUNONIA CEBRENE. Junonia cebrene, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1870, p. 353. 3. Monbuttu; 3 $• Wadelai, 27th January, 5th February, 1887. 32. JUNONIA BOOPIS. Junonia boopis, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1879, p. 331. 3 • Stazione Bauri, September ; § . Kangasi, 18th November, 1883; Monbuttu. Mr. Trimen appears to me to have been unfortunate in defining the distinctive characters between this form and J. orithyia ; so far as I can judge, he must have had either the Malayan J. wallacei or the Javan J. ocyale before him when making his comparison. The width of the subapical bar on the primaries is very variable ; indeed it varies quite one third in the three examples above enumerated : the adjacent yellow markings also vary not a little ; the black streak intersecting the lower part of the bar between the two ocelli is wanting in J. wallacei, slightly indicated in J. ocyale and J. orithyia, rather stronger in the Indian J. swinhoei, still stronger in the Australian J. albicincta, strongest in J. here and J. boopis, but it is absolutely constant; the blue of the hind wings is slightly more restricted than in any of the other forms, and this is, I think, a reliable character, but the tint is variable in all the forms, and therefore is valueless as a distinctive character; the colour of the white spots is also untrustworthy, but the border of the secondaries in all our specimens is greyish, especially in male examples, hardly a trace of white appearing between the black lines in specimens of this sex • indeed, the hind marginal strise hardly merit the term " whitish " used in Mr. Trimen's description. The example figured on his plate seems unusually large for a male, and the form of its primaries is that of a female; but for Mr. Trimen's declaration that it is a male I should have suspected it to be hermaphrodite. The colouring of the under surface in typical J. orithyia, from China, is browner (more argillaceous, in fact) than in any of the allied forms. I would therefore define J. boopis as differing from J. orithyia in the four following characters :- 1. Subapical white bar of primaries, always in the male a.id |
