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Show 1895.] FROM BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 259 the Precis staudingeri of Dewitz, which is thus seen to be only one of the sports of J. archesia. 30. JUNONIA CHAPUNGA. Junonia chapunga, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Jun. pi. i. figs. 2, 3 (1864). 2, Zomba. The pale ocelloid band strongly developed, nearly approaching some specimens of J. pelasgis. 31. JUNONIA CUAMA. Junonia cuama, Hewitson, Exot. Butt. iii. Jun. pi. i. figs. 4, 5 (1864). One damaged male, Zomba. 32. JUNONIA NATALICA. Precis natalica, Felder, Wien. ent. Monatschr. iv. p. 106 (1860). One specimen, Zomba. 33. JUNONIA BOOPIS. Junonia boopis, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1879, p. 331. Zomba. 34. JUNONIA CLELIA. Papilio clelia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. xxi. figs. E, F (1779). Zomba. A specimen with narrow white fascia beyond the cell as in J. epiclelia. 35. PYBAMEIS CARDUI. Papilio cardui, Linneus, Faun. Suec. p. 276. no. 1054 (1761). 3, Zomba. METACBENIS, sp. n. Harma (part), Hopffer in Peters's Eeise n. Mossambique, v. p. 391. (Type, H. concordia, Hopff.) H. concordia and its allies have hitherto been regarded as belonging to the genus Crenis; to which, however, they bear but a slight resemblance: their more rounded primaries, pattern, and robust habit are far more characteristic of Argynnis or Atella; but their nearest allies seem to be the species of the genera Hamanumida and Diestogyna, from which, however, the stouter and more erect palpi of the type species would at once separate it if the very dissimilar character of these organs in the allied M. rosa did not demonstrate the unreliability of such a distinction. It may, however, be differentiated from Hamanumida as follows:- Secondaries comparatively smaller and less produced at anal angle: discoidal cell of primaries shorter, upper discocellular not oblique, marched; second and third median branches emitted nearer 17* |