974 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
a handsome boxfull is soon obtained, as they are also gre- 
gariously inclined, and the occurrence of one specimen generally 
means many. I remember my delight at a fine series of A. Ione, 
with his black encircled violet tip, and A. Danaé, with the 
crimson blotch and black markings, and their respective wives 
with only black markings, which I took on the edge of a patch of 
trees and bush in grass-land not five miles from Durban inland. 
Mr. Spiller speaks of A. Jone, but not of A. Danaé; the latter 
should be plentiful where he is residing. All the more handsome 
insects of this tribe have the female much less vivid in colouring. 
This also is a fact for Mr. Spiller’s attention. In the breeding 
especially the variations of the female and male, even in the larval 
Stage, are very marked, and often significant of derivation or of life 
necessities. 
Two handsome genera of butterflies, rather rare, or at all 
events local in Natal, and related to the foregoing, are I[dmais and 
Thestias. They are sometimes abundant in grass-land, more 
especially on higher ground away from the low coast-lands. 
Of Eronia and Callidryas, as ‘‘ good wine needs no bush,” so 
these need no recommendation. The beauty of their form and 
strong flight are most attractive. H. Leda is a great favourite, 
the sulphur wings with orange tips being very brilliant. JZ. 
Cleodora is handsome, especially the under side. The black 
margin of the wings varies much in depth with the dry and wet 
seasons, as has been remarked in P. Merope. C. Florella is 
delicately coloured, and is caught feeding at the flowers of 
Labiate in the afternoon very abundantly. I have seen several 
C. Rhadia. I think it is found more abundantly up in the 
higher lands, and that may account for Mr. Spiller’s having so 
seldom seen it. 
The species of the genus Terias, which are not very noticeable, 
complete the rather full series of Pieride which Natal yields to a 
successful net. I do not know the transformation of these latter 
species. 
DANAID. 
The Danaide claim our attention, not on account of their 
number, but of the fact that they are the centre upon which 
mimetic tendencies in the Papilionide and Nymphalide seem to 
meet; Danais Chrysippus, being mimicked by Diadema Misippus, 
male, and by Papilio Merope (var. ochreus), female, D. Echeria 
