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the Nymphalid family. The two varieties known are both hill-top 

 frequenters, as far as my experience teaches me. 



Meneris Tulbaghia, a magnificent insect, is practically unknown 

 to me ; it is a large up-country butterfly, and the only specimens 

 I have are gifts. It is a well-known Cape insect ; indeed is 

 named after an old Dutch governor, Tulbagh. It is closely allied 

 to our English Graylings, but much bigger and brighter, and with 

 large ocelli. The list of South African Nymphalids would be 

 quite incomplete without this butterfly, which occurs freely in the 

 wooded kloofs of Natal. 



EURYTELID^. 



The Eurytelidce are represented by a very common and a rare 

 insect on the coast-lands, precisely similar, not in the colour, but 

 in the form of the markings, the former, E. Hiarhas, being black, 

 with a white stripe ; and the latter, E. Dryope, deep red-brown, 

 with a yellowish brown stripe. These are so very similar that I 

 am quite prepared to believe them to be abnormal varieties. The 

 habits on the wing and their haunts are similar. Tlie larva and 

 pupa of E. Hiarhas are well known to me, being quite common, 

 and feeding on a creeper with something like a Petunia flower. 

 They are both conspicuous by their forms. The larva has two 

 long divergent clubbed and rough horns on its head, and the pupa 

 is remarkable by its angulated, excavated, and alated development. 

 I did not establish sexual difference of markings in the larvse, 

 although some were green with black marks and others were 

 green all over. As this smoky or black sufl'usion is not an 

 uncommon feature of a sexual variation in larvse, I accept it from 

 that point of view. 



Erycinid^. 

 The Erycinidcs are only represented by a very errant type, 

 viz., Lihythcea Lahdaca. This insect was first discovered by Mr. 

 Morant, but appears to be very local, or very irregular in appear- 

 ance. Five years of collecting never yielded me a specimen, 

 when lo ! just as I am leaving Natal, it occurs fairly abundantly, 

 and is taken by several collectors synchronously. As it is an 

 insect that could not be mistaken for anything else on the wing, 

 I fancy it is periodical, "which may account for its hitherto rarity 

 in collections. It has long prominent palpi, forming a beak in 

 front of its head ; it is otherwise not noticeably marked. 



