4o6 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



median nervures, also diffusedly represented on upper side, {Hah. — Delagoa 

 Bay : Louren9o jNIaniues {Mrs. Monteiro). — Three examples.) 



A (J of this Variety was taken at Etshowe, Zululand, by Mr. T. Vachell in 

 1886-87. 



A near ally of Zoolina is C. Detsimisaraha, Lucas, a native of Madagascar.^ 

 Another allied form (varying in the direction of a great reduction of the dark 

 markings) is G. Kahldeni, Homeyer and Dewitz {Berl. Ent. Zeifschr., 1882, 

 p. 381), from "Pungo Andonga, Angola {A. von Homeyer).'" It differs in the 

 very great attenuation of the dark markings, especially those of the hind-margin 

 of the hind- wings, which on the upper side are almost obsolete in both sexes, 

 according to the descrijjtion and accompanying figures. 



Additional locality (of C. Zoolina) : — North Tropical Africa. Eastern Inte- 

 rior. Abyssinia : '* Shoa {Antinori)." — Oberthiir, 



Char axes Neanthes, p. 320. 



Fig. of ^, Stand., Exot. Schmett., pi. 58 (1885). 



Besides the Malagasy Betanimena, Lucas ^ (erroneously given as Betsimi- 

 saraka of the same author on p. 321, line 21), two other close allies of Neanthes 

 appear, from the description and figures, to be G. Homeijeri, Dewitz, and G. 

 Ehmcldi, Dewitz and Homeyer {Berl. E7it. Zeitsdir., 1882, p. 382), from 

 "Pungo Andonga, Angola {A. V. Homeyer)." Both these forms have a 

 broad whitish suffusion from the base of the wings (exceedingly wide in the 

 hind-wings of G. Homeyeri). 



Additional locality (of G. Neanthes) : — North Tropical Africa. Eastern 

 Interior. Abyssinia: " Shoa (^?i^i/ion)." — Oberthiir. 



Char axes Varanes, p. 321. 



Fig. of ^, Palla Varanes, Staud., Exot. Schmett., pi. 60 (1885). 



Pupa, p. 324. — In June 1887 I received from Colonel Eowker two living 

 pupge of this butterfly, from which I obtained a $ perfect insect on June 19 

 (pupation i8th May), and a female on June 26th. These pupae were semi- 

 transparent, of a uniform bright- green, Avith a wax-like surface ; six abdominal 

 spiracles on each side, and six caudal tubercles, black. They were very thick 

 and swollen abdominally, but became gradually slenderer and narrower ante- 

 riorly. Head very shallowly bifid. Inferior outline, along middle line of head 

 and thorax, almost straight ; dorsal median line of thorax and inner-marginal 

 edges of wing-cases somewhat prominently but smoothly ridged or keeled. 

 Length, about i inch ; greatest width and also greatest depth — across third 

 abdominal segment — | inch. 



The band of light reddish-brown silk to which these pupoe were attached 

 completely encircled the slender stem of Gardiosjiermuin halicacabum, on Avhich 

 the insects were suspended. Colonel Bowker found the larvae feeding on this 

 widely-spread tropical climber near D'Urban, Natal, and called my attention 

 to the general resemblance borne by the pupae to the younger somewhat heart- 

 shaped inflated seed-vessels of the plant, which hang similarly, though by a 

 much longer pedicel. 



Additional locality on "Western Coast of Tropical North Africa : — Came- 

 roons : "Victoria {Buchholz)." — Plbtz. 



1 Figured in Grandidier's Hist. Phys. Nat. etc. dc Madag., xix. Lep., Atlas i., pi. 21, 

 ff. 2, 2a (1885). 



* Figured in Grandidier'a Hist. Pliya. Nat. etc. de Madag., xix. Lep., Atlas i., pi. 23, 

 ff. 5, 6, 7 (1885). 



