I04 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



have above described, which has a very wide Tropical-African range, 

 extending northward to the White Nile on the east and to Senegal on 

 the west. 



I have examined the types of Jalonc and Imjjcrator, But!., in the 

 British Muse^^m, with the result that I do not consider them separable 

 as species, or even as marked varieties from lone. The former is a 

 $ from the White Nile, with pinkish-tinged under side, and with the 

 neuration and other black markings of the upper side (especially the 

 macular terminations of the hind-w4ng nervules) less strongly marked 

 than in Reiche's figures (o/;. cit.) of the Abyssinian ^. Imjjerator, on 

 the other hand, is a ^ from Senegal, rather more strongly marked 

 than Reiche's $, particularly as regards the dusky discal ray of the 

 under side of the hind- wings ; and with it are associated (September 

 1886) — I think rightly — two ^ s and two deeply yellow-tinged ^s 

 from Mamboio in Eastern Africa, and a very slightly yellow-tinged $ 

 from Madagascar. These two continental ^ s have a very brilliant 

 appearance from their sulphur-yellow ground-colour and crimson- 

 glossed red apical patch, and have the black markings strongly 

 developed, while the Malagasy $ more resembles the ordinary pattern 

 of lone with orange-red apex. 



Hopffer's $ lone (Jig. op. cit.) agrees moi'e closely with Butler's 

 Imperator than with Jalone, but has the dusky discal ray of the hind- 

 wings only feebly represented by four faint brownish marks. Reiche's 

 Abyssinian ^ and Hopffer's Mozambique $ agree very nearly, the main 

 difference being that the discal ray just mentioned is better marked in 

 the former. In four Transvaal $ s the ray in question is even more 

 obsolescent than in Hopffer's figure. As regards the $, Reiche's and 

 Hopffer's figures agree in the feeble development (in both forms of the 

 sex) of the dusky clouding over the basal areas ; but on the under side 

 Reiche's figures exhibit a deeper and warmer colouring, the ^ with red 

 apex being pale creamy-ochreous, and that with black apex yellow, 

 and both having the macular discal rays broad and diffused. In these 

 features of the under side Reiche's figures appi-oach the Natalian 

 Speciosns, Wallengr. 



The $ s (red-tipped) that I have seen from the Transvaal and 

 Delagoa Bay, while heavily clouded on the upper side, have the mider 

 side even paler and with fainter markings than Hopffer's figures. The 

 ^ accompanying the Delagoan ^ is, like Butler's Jalone, pinkish-tinted 

 on the under side. 



The Variety' K. of lone above described is only known to me by a 

 few $ examples from Natal, viz., one in the Hewitson collection (in 

 1867), another taken by the late Mr. M'Ken in 1869, and three 

 captured by Colonel Bowker in December 1884. Their slightly 

 smaller size and more restricted apical violet apjjroximate them to 

 the ^ Spcciosus inhabiting the same district ; but the black neuration 

 of the almost pure -white under side shows some resemblance to Phlcgyas, 



