414 SOUTH-AFRICAX BUTTERFLIES. 



is in both wings more limited, and the subapical white spots of tlie fore-wing 

 are differently arranged. The under side is altogether different in the two 

 species. 



Mr. ]\Iorrison most liberally allowed me to retain one of the two specimens 

 above mentioned; it is noted as captured on 4th November 1888. He informs 

 me that he took what appeared to be a $ on the same date, not differing from 

 the (J except in its larger size and squarer wings. During the four seasons of 

 Mr. Morrison's acquaintance with this brilliant species, he has not met with it 

 before 15th October or after 7th November. 



Aphnmus Natalensis, p. 150. 

 Fig. of (J, Aphnceus Natalensis, Stand., Exot. Schmett., i. pi. 95 (1887). 



Aphnccus Masilihazi}- p. 154. 

 Additional locality in Zululand : — Etshowe [A. M. Goodrich and T. Vachell). 



Aj^hnccus Mia, 'p. 154. 



Additional locality in Transvaal : — Eureka, near Barberton (C. F. Palmer). 



The single specimen (^ ) received from Mr. Palmer is noted by him as 



having been captured about " teak " trees on a stony ridge"on 12th April 1888. 



A23hna'us Fhanes, p. i 5 6. 

 Additional locality : — Transvaal : Eureka, near Barberton (C F. Palmer). 



Aphnceus pseudo-zeritis, p. 1 60. 



,$ Chloroselas Esmeralda, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885 [publ. 1886], 

 p. 765, pi. xlvii. f. 4. 



Additional localities : — Natal : D'Urban {A. D. Millar). Eastern Interior 

 of South Tropical Africa {F. C. Selous). Eastern Interior of North Tropical 

 Africa: " Somaliland : Bunder Maria (Yei-bury)." — Butler. 



$ Wholly dark-brown, tcithout any trace of blue ; orange spot at anal angle 

 of hind-wing as in $ . Under side as in $ . (Specimen received from Mr. 

 A. D. Millar, who took it near D'Urban in December 1887.) 



On careful comparison of two $ s taken by Mr. Selous — which quite agree 

 with Mr. Butler's description of C. Esmeralda — and of three very fine (Js 



' Mr. A. G. Butler {Ent. M. Mag., xx. pp. 250-251, 1884) has described two near allies of 

 tliis species — one from Lake Nyassa (A. Nyassce) and the other from the Victoria Nyanza 

 (A. Victorice). I have not seen the former, but a ? example of the latter has occurred in a 

 collection recentlj' foi-med in the Western Interior of Soutli Tropical Africa by Mr. A. W. 

 Eriksson, having been captured on the Omrora, " a river between Ovaquenyama and 

 Ombuela," to the north of Ovampoland, in November 1887. It is very like Masilikazi ? on 

 the upper side, but on the under side the fore- wing exhibits a very strongly flexuose 

 (instead of straight) subapical fascia, the lower portion of which is connected with the median 

 fascia by an oblique similarly-coloured mark lying between second and third median nervules 

 — and in the hind-wing the long fascia angulated before anal angle is much more flexuose 

 and distinctly composite of six unequal portions, while the short outer subapical fascia is 

 distinctly composed of two very unequal portions, a small part on costa projecting beyond 

 and almost apart from the rest of the marking. These and some minor distinctive markings 

 noted by Mr. Butler fully warrant the separation of A. Victoria from A. Masilikazi. 



