90 RHOPALOCERA AFRICi: AUSTRALIS. 



crimson at tlieir base, — the pair on the third segment longer 

 than the others. Feeds on Asclepias. From 1| to If inches 

 in length.* 



Pupa. — Thick, rounded, semi-transparent, dull pinkish- 

 white, the abdominal segments greenish ; a raised golden 

 spot on each eye, at the insertion of the wings, and about the 

 centre of costal edge of wings ; also two similar spots on 

 each side of the back of the thorax. On the fourth ring of 

 the abdomen is an interrupted, blackish, tuberculated, ridge, 

 immediately succeeded by a row of golden dots. Imago 

 emerged on the fourteenth day after the suspension of the 

 Chrysalis. 



The above descriptions of the Larva and Pupa of D. Chrysippris are from 

 specimens I found at the Knysna, at the end of December, 1858. 



Figures of both Larva and Pupa are in Horsfield and Moore's " Cata- 

 logue of Lepidoptera in the East India Company's Museum " (pi. 4, f. 7, 7a). 



This Butterfly is an abundant and widely-spread species, extending from 

 South Europe to the Cape of Good Hope, and from West Africa to China. 

 It partakes of the peculiar floating flight of the group, but finps the wings 

 mucli more frequently than I). Echeria. When pursued, it flies with con- 

 siderable rapidity. 



Marshes, waste ground, kloofs in hill sides, gardens, &c. 



November (m) — May (ra). "December to July." — D' Urban. 



Cape Town. Knysna. Plettenberg Bay. St. Helena. — 

 Coll. mihi. 



King William's Town.— Coll. W. S. M. D'Urban. 



Butterworth, KafFraria. — Coll. J. H. Bowker. 



Natal, Ceylon. Madagascar. — Coll. S. A. Mus. 



Damaraland. — Coll. H. Hutchinson. 



Congo. Mauritius. Greece (Athens). Turkey. Indiat 

 Java. Hongkong. Penang. Ceram. — Coll. Brit. Mus. 



"Java. Darjeeling. Madras."— Coll. E. I. C. Mus. 



•' Bourbon. Mauritius. Madagascar." — Boisd. 



Family 4.— ACRiEID^. 



AcRJEiD^, E. Douhl. 

 AcREiDES, Boisd. 

 Nymphalid^ (pars), Sioains. 



Imago. — Head rather broad : eyes naked, rather promi- 

 nent; palpi rather long, divergent, rising considerably above 



* " Feeds on Gomphocarptts fndicosns." — D'Urban, in Hit. 

 f "Occurs from Graham's Town to Queen's Town." — Id. 



