LIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA COLLECTED IN EAST AFRICA, 

 1894, BY :\IR. WILLIAM ASTOR CHAXLER AND LIEUTEN- 

 ANT LUDWIG- YON HOHNEL. 



By W. J. Holland, Pli. D. 



The collection submitted to me for examination and determination 

 by the authorities of the United States National Museum had already 

 been partially classified by Mr. Martin L. Linell, of the Department of 

 Entomology. Twenty-five species recorded in the accompanying: list 

 were not represented in the assemblage of specimens submitted to me, 

 Mr. Linell having determined them, as he writes me, ujion careful com- 

 parison with specimens previously labeled by me in other collections 

 contained in the National Museum. The species thus determined by 

 Mr. Linell, which I have not personally examined, and for the correct 

 determination of which I rely uj^on him, are Papilio leonidas, P. nireuSj 

 P. demoleus, Salamis anacardii, Palla varanes, Amauris domimcanus, 

 HypoUmnas misipims^ Banais j)eUv€rana^ D. l-Iugii, Tingra momhasa'f 

 Precis nataliea, P. elgiva, P. cloantha, Eupha'dra neophron, Melanitis 

 leda, Hamanumidii dcvdalus, Pyrameis cardui, Euryiela dryope, E. hiar- 

 has, E. ophione, Hypanis ilithyia, Junonia boopis, J. eehrene, J, clelia, 

 (JalUdryas floreUa, Terias regularis, and Gydllgramma lutona. 



As to the exact localities from which the specimens came, I Lave no 

 certain knowledge. Mr. Linell writes that he was informed by Mr. 

 Chanler that the greater number of the specimens were taken upon the 

 Jombene Range, northeast of Mount Kenia. It is to be regretted that 

 a more exact record of localities and dates of capture was not kept. 



An examination of the list shows that while a certain proportion of 

 the species therein enumerated have a wide range over the whole of 

 tropical Africa, a much larger proportion are such as belong to the 

 faunal subdivision which includes the region covered by Natal and the 

 Transvaal. The study of collections from Eastern Africa is revealing 

 to us gradually that there is a rather well-defined line of demarcation 

 between the species occupying the region of the grassy steppes, which 

 extend through the southern part of the continent northward along the 

 eastern coast, and the fauna of the more densely wooded region of the 

 Congo, the Ogove, and their tributaries. The butterflies of the region 

 of Kenia and Kilimanjaro are more nearly related to those of tlie region 

 of the Cape than to those of tropical West Africa. Dr. R. IJow dler 



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