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description, the ^ s coursing rather rapidly and irregularly over the underwood, 

 wliile the ? s hovered flatteringly near the ground, and often settled on leaves. 

 The species seems hy no means generally distributed in forest tracts, 

 evidently preferring, if not being limited to, woods lying at some elevation. 

 Several examples have been sent to mo by Mr. T. Ay res from the Eastern 

 Transvaal. 



Localities of Papilio Echcrioides. 



I. South Africa. 



B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts. — King WiUiam's Town {Archd. Kitton). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo River (/. //. Boicher). 



E. Xatal. 



b. Uiiper Districts. — Tunjumbili, Tugela River. 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenberg District {T. Ay res). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 K North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — " Cameroon Mountains ; Bonjongo (BucJihoh)." 

 — Plotz.i 



Family V.— HESPERID.E. 



ffesperides, Latreille, "Cons. Gen. Crust. Arachn. et Ins. (1810) ;" Encyc. 



Meth., ix. p. 706 (18 1 9), [excl. Urania]. 

 Hesperidce, Leach, " Samouelle's Comp., p. 242 (18 19). " 

 Hesperides, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 167 (1836). 

 Hesperidce, Swainson, Hist, and Nat. Arr. Ins., p. 97 (1840). 

 HesperiidcB, Westwood, Intr. Mod. Class. Ins., ii. p. 360 (1840) ; and Gen. 



Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 505 (1852). 

 Hesperidce, Trimen, Ehop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 285 (1866). 

 Hes2)eriina, Herrich-Schiiffer, Corresp.-Blatt. Zool.-Min. Ver. Regensb., 



1869, pp. 28 and 50. 

 Urhicoloi (Fab.), Scudder, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci., 1874, p. 195. 

 Hesperiina, Plotz, Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1879, p. 175 ; and Mitth. Nat. Ver. 



Neu-Yorpomm. u. Rligen, 1884, p. i. 

 Hesperiidce, Distant, Rhop. Malay., p. 366 (1886). 



Imago. — Head i-cry Iroad ; eyes large, very prominent, smooth; 

 paliJi set apart from each other, broad, thick, short, appressed to face, 

 densely clothed with scales and hair on basal and middle joints, — ter- 

 minal joint very slender, usually very short (often minute and almost 

 hidden by hair of middle joint), clothed with extremely fine and short 

 appressed hairs ; antennce wide apart at origin, ivith a more or less 

 elongate eluh, usucdli/ curved, often rejlexed or attenuated into a slender 

 hooked tip ; haustcUum (maxillcc) much elongated ; usually a compact 

 tuft or pencil of stiff hairs hetiveen base of each antenna and margin 

 of eye. 



Thorax usually very robust, sometimes broader than head. Wings 



^ This is probably p. Zoroastrcs, Druco (Ent. M. Mag., 1S78, p. 226), from Fernando Po, 

 described as nearly allied to P. Echcrioides, but larger and with the bands pure white ( i ). 



