106 NOTES. 



Notes. 

 Two Rare Natal Butterflies. By Charles W. Morrison. 



Deudorix dariaves.— On the 27tli March, 1909, I met 

 with this butterfly in the bush on Ridge Road, Durban, 

 capturing a perfect male. During the next fortnight I took 

 two more males and a perfect female. I showed my capture 

 to the late Mr. A. D. Millar, and I have since seen in his 

 collection, now in the Durbiin Museum, two worn specimens 

 ticketed Umgeni, about a mile from where I took mine, and 

 taken the same month nnd year. 



I believe mine to be the first specimens to be taken in 

 Natal, and, with the exception of those mentioned above, the 

 only ones. 



All my captures appeared flying down a narrow path in 

 the bush at 3.30 in the afternoon and all settled on the same 

 branch of a knobthorn tree, in a small opening in the bush, 

 upon which the afternoon sun was shining brightly. I 

 searched diligently all round this spot but could never find a 

 trace of them anywhere else. In Trimen's work he describes 

 one male sent to him from Delagoa Bay, but does not seem 

 to have seen a female. 



lolaus aemulus. — Some thirty years ago the late Mr. 

 A. D. Millar took a male of this butterfly at the junction of 

 Currie and Montpellier Roads, Durban, at a time when the 

 Berea was all bush and not »is now all built upon. It was 

 settled on mistletoe. During the next twenty years he took 

 two other worn specimens at his residence on Ridge Road ; 

 one other specimen I heard was taken by a Miss Milne at 

 Mount Edgecombe on the North Coast. 



Mr. Millar's first capture was the type and named 

 femulus, I believe, by Mr. Bntler. I know that Mr. 

 Trimen considered it a si)ort or variety of a])hncToides, 

 but why I cannot imagine, as there is very little real 

 resemblance between the two. Probably the reason was that 

 he had not seen a perfect specimen of the latter butterf^3^ I 

 have splendid specimens of both sexes in my collection, 

 taken near Weenen on the Tiiizela River. 



