134 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Hewitson {Illust. Diurn. Lep., Suppl., p. ii) thought /. marmoreiis 

 (Butl.), from the White Nile, to be a variety of /. Bowlceri ; but I have 

 not been able to ascertain if this is the case. 



The strongly and intricately marked under side strikingly distinguishes 

 this fine lolans from its congeners. /. aj^hnarndes, Trim., resembles it in 

 the width of the under-side stria3 ; but these are regular and even, and dis- 

 posed quite differently from the corresponding markings in Bowlceri. 



Colonel Bowker, to whom I have dedicated this very beautiful species, 

 first met with it in Kaffraria in the year 1862, and afterwards took a good 

 many examples in that territory. I have also received a specimen taken in 

 the Albany District of the Cape Colony; and in 1867 I found two or three 

 about stunted Acacia horrida near Greytown, Natal. It was not until 1S76 

 that I discovered the butterfly as far to the south and west as Robertson 

 in the Cape Colony; but I had received the $ Variety or Aberration from 

 Namaqualand above described as early as 1873. Colonel Bowker's original 

 specimen was taken on a sprig of mistletoe {Lorantlins) ; and in October 

 1864 he noted that other specimens had the habit (which I subsequently 

 observed in Natal and at Robertson) of settling on the dry stems and twigs 

 of acacias and other thorny shrubs. At Robertson I found the few speci- 

 mens I saw very fond of the yellow flowers of a tall straggling Senecio which 

 was growing through a clump of rigid thorny bush. The flight of /. Boickeri 

 is exceedingly short, and, apax-t from the twigs and thorns about its favourite 

 resting-places, it is very easily captured. 



. Localities of lolaus Uoirkcri. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Disti-icts. — Springbokfontein, Little Namaqualand (G. 



A. Reynolds. — Yar. or Aberr.) Robei-tson. 

 h. Eastern Districts. — Rockdale, near Grahamstown (//. /. Ather- 

 stone). 



D. Kaffraria Proper. — Tsomo and Bashee Rivers [J. II . Bowlder). 



E. Natal. 



h. Upper Districts. — Greytown. 

 L. Bechuanaland. — " Chue Spring" (IF. BurcheJI). [Var. or Aberr.] 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



rt. Western Coast. — "Angola {J. J. Monteiro).'' — Druce. " Kin- 



sembo, Congo (IE Ansell).'' — Butler. 

 & I. Eastern Interior. — Tauwani River (/'". C. Scions). 



187. (5.) lolaus Ceres, (Ilewitson). 



^ Myrina Geres, Hewits., 111. D. Lep., p. 39, n. 42, ph 17, f. 63 (1S65), 



Exp. al., Q) '' 1 1% inch." 



^ " Lilac-blue. Anterior wing with the apex and outer margin 

 broadly dark-brown. Posterior wing with the apex rufous-brown ; 

 two slender tails ; a small black spot at the base of the outer tail ; the 

 apical" [evidently anal-angular is meant] "spot gold and carmine 

 bordered below with pale-blue, on the left side with black. Under 



