522 Notes on Insects 



partir-ulnr groups of beetles) , Mv. Andrew Murray informs 

 us (Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xi. 70) that " the type of the 

 Angolan Coleopterous fauna is Kaffrarian, beyond any 

 question/^ and this statement is based on material sup- 

 plied by Dr. Welwitsch^ whose " entomological collections 

 are not less admirable in every respect than his botanical.^' 

 It is to be desired that the contents of these collections 

 should, by means of publication, be made better known 

 to Entomologists generally. 



At the request of the Council, the different groups of 

 insects in Mr. AnselFs boxes have been examined by 

 Messrs. Butler, Moore, Bates, M^Lachlan, Smith, and 

 Scott; and those gentlemen respectively have drawn 

 ns the Lists of Species hereinafter contained. 



It is recorded by a former visitor to Ambriz, that 

 " flights of humming-birds and richly coloured butter- 

 flies filled the air." To some extent these may have 

 been flights of the traveller's fancy ; but, at any rate, 

 the butterflies form the chief item in Mr. Ansell's collec- 

 tion. Altogether there are 82 species of Lepidoptera ; 

 and the butterflies are distributed amongst four families 

 in the following proportion, viz. : — Nyviphalidce, 30 

 species ; Lyccenidce, 8 ; Papilionida?, 17 ; and Hesperiidce, 

 4 ; total, 59 species belonging to 80 genera. Of these, 

 three are new names, Junonia Gehrene, Godartia Ansellica, 

 and Belenois Inanaj the first and third species have existed 

 in collections unnamed, but the Godartia is new in fact 

 as well as in name ; it is allied to G. Eurynome, and Mr. 

 Butler has named it after its captor, by whom five speci- 

 mens were sent. Junonia Gehrene is the African form of 

 the Asiatic /. Q^none ; Mr. Roland Trimen and Mr. 

 Butler appear to have simultaneously and independently 

 arrived at the conclusion that the African form is entitled 

 to rank as a species ; their respective descriptions thereof 

 both appear in this Part of the Transactions (pp. 353 

 and 524), but with Mr. Butler's full concurrence, I have 

 given the preference to the name proposed by the author 

 of the Rhopalocera Africce australis. 



The Lepidoptera Heterocera consist of 23 species 

 belonging to 21 genera; several of these are probably 

 new species, but Mr. Moore modestly pleads insufiicient 

 acquaintance with the moths of Africa as a reason for not 

 naming or describing them. There are four species of 

 Sphinges, seven Bomhyces, five Noctuce, five Geometrce, a 

 Pyralis, and a Gramhus. Most of the generic names are 



