344 Mr. Roland Trim en on 



Generally the Families range in the following order, 

 according to the number of species contained in each, 

 viz., 1. Nymphalidce; 2. Lyccvnidce ; 3. Papilionidce ; 

 4. Hcsperiidce, and 5. Erycinidce ; — in Basuto-land the 

 order is as follows, viz., 1. Lyccunidce; 2 ., Nymphalidce ; 

 3. Hesperiidce, and 4. Papilionidce. The scanty repre- 

 sentation of the last-named family is very marked, only 

 one species of Papilio (the most %videly-prevalent in 

 Africa), and respectively three and two species of the 

 rich genera Pieris and Callosuiie* having been met with 

 in the Basuto country. 



Only two species, Lyccena Letsea and L. Macalenga, 

 appear to be peculiar to Basuto-land ; the other new 

 species (five) described in this paper, being known to 

 occur in other parts of Southern Africa. Lyccena is by 

 far the largest South-African genus of butterflies, no less 

 than thirty species being now recorded, in addition to 

 several undescribed forms in collections. 



Family NYMPHALID^. 

 Sub-fam. Danainj:. 



Genus Danais, Latreille. 



Danais Chrysippus. 

 Papilio Chrysippus, Linn. S. N. (ed. xii.) ii. 767. 



Mr. Bowker has sent specimens of this widely preva- 

 lent species from Maseru, and notes the butterfly as 

 being very numerous there in the autumn months. 



I have lately found, for the first time, the singular fasci- 

 cled anal appendages, observable in several Eiiplcece and 

 (rarely) in Danais Echei'ia, occurring in a cJ Z>. Chry- 

 si2jptts. These appendages seem peculiar to the <? sex, 

 so far as I have noticed ; and the rarity of their appear- 

 ance leads me to imagine that they are either lost or 



* Mr. Bowker writes that the single example of C. Erenina sent to 

 Cape Town, was the only "Ked-Tip" (C. Agoye, the second species 

 found, has a small ochreous apex) seen bj- him dming two jears' stay in 

 Basuto-land. 



