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mating N. Candiope in colour, except for the green veining of 

 the h\tter, and having the hasal parts of the wings of a bright soft 

 white, which makes a conspicuous patch and mark as the butterfly 

 darts rapidlj' through the sunHght, and which is as suddenly 

 extinguished when it settles on the under side of an orange or 

 other large leaf of a similar character. The under side of the 

 wings, when closed and the insect settled, is so protective that 

 I have often seen one alight immediately before my eyes, and 

 although I had seen it and was looking at it, it was only by close 

 inspection, or perhaps by a quick flutter of the wings as the insect 

 moved, that I could really identify it. The under side has a 

 continuous line transversely of the wings, which imitates the 

 midrib of the leaves, and makes the deception stronger. The 

 transformations have been worked out at King William's Town by 

 Colonel Bowker and Mrs. Barber, I believe, but I have never been 

 successful in obtaining larvae. 



Eiiryphene carulea, a Nymphalid, is reputedly Natalian ; it is 

 a very handsome butterfly, deep blue above, and red-brown under 

 wings. I have never seen it. It is not improbably a bush insect, 

 and inconspicuous. 



Two butterflies, Crenls Natalensis and its congener Crenis 

 Boischivall, — which every now and then, depending on the seasons, 

 are most conspicuous by their abundance, — are interesting because 

 the larger variety, C. Boisditvali, which is distinctly different, 

 having a different larva, is marked exactly like one form — not, I 

 think, a sexual one — of the other, Crenis Natalensis . From my 

 breeding, it was a question whether the larvae produced both insects 

 from the same brood, although of difierent characters themselves, 

 or whether the insects bred indifl'erently the two forms of larvae. 

 My experiences, as far as I could sum them up, rather indicated 

 a double form both of imago and larva. Certainly both forms of 

 larvae produced the ochreous-spotted imago. But the ochreous- 

 spotted imago seemed to be a variety (not sexual) in one case, and 

 a constant form in the other. Mr. Spiller would not have any 

 difficulty in settling the question, as the larvae of both varieties 

 are abundant periodically. The larvae in one case are spined 

 with divergent stellate spines, and light coloured ; in the other 

 shiny, with short simple spines, blue-black on a brown ground. 

 The pupae are almost identical, fleshy green, with no markings. 



The handsome but not conspicuous genus, Harma, belongs to 



