154 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



their twigs or flowers. It was on the wing in February, March, and April ; 

 and Colonel Bowker writes that he has taken it also in July. Though 

 hitherto not recorded from Kaffraria proper, the insect probably occurs 

 there, as Colonel Bowker sent an example from British Kaffraria, and in 

 1870 Miss M. Barber gave me two ^ s captured by her as far south as the 

 coast of the Bathui'st district of the Cape Colony. 



Localities of A jJi/nr/i ft Jirasilil'/fzL 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



b. Eastern Districts. — Mouth of Kleinemond River (Miss M. 



Barber). British Kaffraria (/. //. Bowker). 



c. Griqualand West. — Vaal River {J. H. Bowlicr). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. Pinetown and Mouth 



of Tugela River (/. H. Bowlier). 



b. Upper Districts.— Rorke's Drift, Buffalo River (/. //. Boivher). 



F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {the late Culonel 11. Tuiccr). 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom (2'. Ai/res). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South Tropical. 



a. "Western Coast. — Damaraland (C. J. Aiidej'sso?/). 



b. Eastern Coast. — ' ' Querimba. ' ' — Hopff er. 



bi. Eastern Interior. — Shashani and Makloutze Rivers (F. C. 

 Selous). " Near Victoria Falls, Zambesi River (F. Oates)."- — 

 Westwood. 



196. (4.) Aphnaeus Ella, Hewitson. 



Aphnanis Ella, Llewits., 111. Diurn. Lep., p. 63, n. ic, pi. 25, f. 6 (1865). 

 Aplinceus Ckalca, Wallengr., Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fcirh., 1S75, p. 89, n. 46. 



Exp. al., I in. — I in. 3 lin. 



^ Colouring and general iKdtcrii quite liJce those of A. Natalensis, 

 Westw. Fore-toing : middle ochre-yeliow stripe not oblique outwardly, 

 but quite transverse, irregularly dentate on its outer edge, narrowed 

 inferiorly, and sometimes confluent on median nervure (between first 

 and second nervules), with the preceding short ochre-yellow stripe 

 crossing discoidal cell ; outer oclire-yellow stripe completely separated 

 from, being parallel to, middle stripe, very variable in form and width, 

 • — its superior extremity very narrow and often indistinct ; its middle 

 j)ortion, on third median nervule, partly or sometimes wholly separated 

 by the fuscous-brown ground-colour. Hind-iving : two indistinct 

 oblique discal darker stripes, and a submarginal one ; bluish-white 

 streak close along lower half of hind-margin well developed ; no orange 

 at anal angle, but tails of that colour at their base. Cilia whitish 

 mixed with brown in fore-wing. Under side. — The stripes not orange 

 or orange-ochreous, as in Katalensis, hut of a darker purple than in 

 Ilasilikazi, and differing in form and arrangement from those of both 



