194 LLOYDS NATURAL HLSFORY. 



^.THioriAN Region. 



In dealing with the African Continent I propose to notice 

 first those works which refer to the west const, and then the 

 eastern. It is curious that though the west coast has been 

 much more explored entomologically, till lately, than the east, 

 most of the separate publications on African insects relate to 

 the south and east, the published information respecting those 

 of the west coast being much more scattered. 



JVesf Coast of Africa. 



There is a small work published by Mr. W. Schaus and 

 Surgeon-Captain W. G. Clements in 1891, "On a Collection 

 of Sierra Leone Lepidoftera^^^ with three coloured plates. 



Jameson's " Story of the Rear Column " (1890) includes an 

 article by Messrs. Godman, Salvin, and Druce, on the Lepidop- 

 tera taken on the Congo by the ill-fated author. 



As regards the tropical islands, our information respecting 

 the Cape Verdes is very incomplete. St. Helena is better 

 known, a list of species having been published by Walker in 

 Melliss's description of the island (1875); ^^d a later and 

 more complete list by Mrs. Wollaston, in the " Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History " for 1879. 



Soiitli Africa. 



A few species from South Africa were described or mentioned 

 by Boisduval in 1847, in the Appendix to vol. 2 of 

 Delegorguc's "Voyage dans I'Africpic Australe," and in 1849 

 Angas published a plate of lApidoptcra in his " Kaflirs 

 Illustrated." Subseciuently, i)a[)ers descriptive of AVahlberg's 

 collections were published at Stockholm in the " Vetenskaps 

 Handlingar," the Butterflies and larger Moths by ^^^allengren 



