Forms of South-African Butterflies. 67 



indicated by a whitish spot, and that of the discal series 

 immediately beyond the band by two small but distinct 

 white sub-apical spots. These differences from the drawing 

 of the type are also shown by the ^ taken in Zululand by 

 Captain Goodrich. 



1 figure the Zululand $ received from Capt. Goodrich 

 in preference to Mr. Roberts' Pondoland ^, because the 

 under-side in the former agrees in ground-colour with Mr. 

 Smith's description of " stramineous," while in the latter 

 it is of a much duller tint, pale ochreous-yellow before the 

 common dark-brown median streak and creamy-ferruginous 

 beyond it, with all the markings before middle attenuated 

 and all those beyond middle grey and very indistinct. 

 Variation in the colouring of the under-side is extremely 

 prevalent in both sexes of the nearly allied H. alcimeda 

 (Godt.), the only other Harma yet discovered in South 

 Africa.* 



Mr. Feltham makes the following notes on H. coranus: — 

 " In a wooded dell on the Umzimkulu at Port Shepstone, 

 on the 14th February, 1904, I saw several specimens, both 

 $ and $, but could only succeed in capturing a single %, 

 being unfortunately provided with too short-handled a net. 

 Both sexes flew at least 6 or 8 feet above the ground, and 

 settled at about the same height on leaves of trees in large 

 bushes. Their flight resembled that oiH. alcimeda, which 

 was plentiful close by ; but I noticed this peculiarity in it, 

 that, between the strokes of the wings, the motion conveys 

 the impression that the butterfly is progressing with its 

 wings set slanting somewhat downward on either side 

 instead of horizontally. 



" During my stay at Port St. John's, from 1st to 7th 

 March, 1904, I looked carefully for H. coranus, but did not 

 see it ; although H. alcimeda was quite common there, 

 frequenting the ripe fruit of the wild vine. Before leaving 

 I asked my friend Mr. Roberts to keep a sharp look-out for 

 coranus, and he succeeded in detecting and securing the $ 

 example in June 1904." 



* This geniis is emphatically West- African; out of about 50 species, 

 besides the two South-African natives under notice — of which 

 coranus inhabits also the East-African Coast at Mombasa — only 5 or 

 6 species appear to have been met with in British East Africa, even 

 as far inland as the Victoria Nyanza. It is thus remarkable that a 

 siiiall representative should have penetrated to the extreme South of 

 tlie continent, and flourish there wherever the native woods still 

 extend. 



