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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 33 36. PRECIS TUE:UOA (Wallengr.). Salamis tukuoa, Wallengr. K. Sv. Vet.-Ak. Handl. 1857-Lep. Ehop. Caffr. p. 25. n. 6. Three specimens from the Mineni Valley do not differ from more southern examples. 37. PRECIS CUAMA (Hewits.). Junonia cuama, Hewits. Exot. Butt. iii. p. 25, pi. 13. figs. 4, 5 (1864). Precis cuama, Trim. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 74. n. 20. Six examples from the Mineni Valley and two from Vunduzi Eiver. Most of the specimens agree with those from Ehanda and the Okavango Eiver noted by m e (loc. cit.) as much yellower than the figure of the type, and as wanting (on both surfaces) the conspicuous white centre of the second and third fuscous spots in the discal row of the fore wings, and (on the upperside) the paler cloud in the middle of the hind wings ; but two of the Mineni males are intermediate in these respects, approaching the type in tint, having the pale cloud faintly shown in the hind wings, and presenting the two wmite spots in the fore wings on both surfaces. The underside is most variable in colouring-only one of the two last-mentioned individuals agreeing fairly with the figure of the type, the other being dull and with little trace of rufous, but with all the markings faint, and a strong bronzy surface-gloss ; while the yellower examples exhibit beneath different admixtures of ochre-yellow and ferruginous brown, with the markings ashy grey and fuscous, in some cases faintly glossed with violaceous. This Butterfly is noted as frequenting the shade of the forest, and when settled to be scarcely distinguishable from faded leaves. 38. PRECIS SIMIA, Wallengr. (Plate IV. fig. 5, 3.) Precis simia, Wallengr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857-Lep. Ehop. Caffr. p. 26. n. 2 ; Trimen, S.-Afr. Butt. i. p. 227. n. 70 (1887). Of this very rare species-of which the only examples hitherto known to me were the type (collected by Wahlberg) in the Stockholm Museum and a very worn male taken by Col. Bowker at Durban-there are four male examples, three from the Mineni Valley and one from Christmas Pass. The three former are typical, agreeing well with the careful figure of the type (a $ , judging from the want of the anal-angular projection in the hind wings), except in having all the fuscous markings larger; but the fourth has on the upperside a yellowish-white median discal cloud in the hind wmgs, and a similar smaller lower discal cloud in the fore wings, and all the black spots of the discal series in the fore wings smaller; while on the underside the basal fuscous in both wings is much effaced by the enlargement (and in the hind wings actual confluence at many points) of the enclosed markings of the ground-colour, and there is also a streak of the ground-colour, P R O C . ZOOL. Soc.-1894, N o. III. 3 |