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and March ; but it is numerous in some seasons, the late Mr. M. J. M'Ken 

 having sent long series to the South-African Museum. In the Botanic 

 Gardens at D'Urban I saw it most frequently on the leaves of the orange. 

 Colonel Bowker notes its appearing in Kaffraria from November to July, 

 and also met with specimens near D'Urban in August. 



Localities of lolaus Silas. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



h. Eastern Districts — " Grahamstown (Pluto's Vale)." — W. S. M. 

 D'Urban. King William's Town {Miss F. Botoker). Kei 

 River {/. //. Boivker). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River (J". //. Boivkcr). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. " Lower Umkomazi." — J. H. 



Bowker. 

 h. Upper Districts. — Tunjumbili, Tugela River. 



F. "Zululand."— Coll. Brit. Mus. 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques [Mrs. Montciro). 



184. (2.) lolaus Trimeni, Wallengreu. 

 Plate VII. fig. 4 ( ? ). 

 lolaus Trimeni, Wallgrn. Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Forh., 1875, 'p. 87, n. 29. 



Exp. al., {$) I in. 8 lin. ; ($) I in. 9I lin. 



^ Pure pale-blue. Fore-wing : a black border, begiuuing about 

 middle of costa, extremely broad apically, and tlience narrowing to 

 posterior angle, where it is tolerably broad ; this border is curved and 

 crenelated with ground-colour on its inner edge ; costa from base 

 to middle narrowly fuscous, the edge itself fulvescent close to base, 

 Hind-iving : base and costa bordered with black ; at middle of costa 

 a rather large rounded black spot extending partly into discoidal cell; 

 hind-margin slenderly, inner margin more widely bordered with black ; 

 near anal angle two black spots, of which the inner one is oblong and 

 the outer rounded ; some of the nervules black. Under side. — 

 Silvery-white. Fore-iving : without markings. Hind-wing : consider- 

 ably beyond middle, a very slender transverse black line, interrupted on 

 nervules, and towards anal angle strongly angulated ; beyond it a still 

 more slender fulvous line, ending in a rounded fulvous spot, between 

 first and second median nervules ; at anal angle another larger fulvous 

 spot, inferiorly black-bordered, and superiorly blue-edged ; hind-margin 

 edged with a thin black line ; tail on first median nervule black tipped 

 with white ; tail on submedian nervure black, edged on both sides with 

 white. 



Cilia of fore-wings greyish above, white beneath ; of hind-wings 

 white on both sides. 



Forehead white, but fulvous mesially ; paljsi white, with black tips ; 



