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N. incongrua and the common Eurytela hiarbas, Drury,* a 



[xxxi 

 Nymphaline of a group not remote from that represented by 

 the genus Neptis. E. hiarbas has a very wide Ethiopian 

 range; and, as I have noted in ' South- African Butterflies' 

 (I, pp. 260 and 270), it and the two commoner species of 

 Xejitis occurring in the same districts of South Africa, have 

 much the same flight and habits, hovering rather slowly about 

 the lower trees and shrubs, and often settling — the Eurytela 

 being more partial to the stems and the Neptis to the leaves. 

 I also called attention (pp. cit., p. 258) to the much closer 

 resemblance existing between the Tropical- African Eurytela 

 (Neptidopsis) op/uone, Cram., and Neptis melicerta, Drury ; j" 

 and in view of the mimetic relations which probably obtain 

 between the two genera, it is interesting to bear in mind that 

 Mr. Marshall some years ago found some evidence of the 

 distasteful ness of the conspicuous .V. agatha. 



R. Trimen." 



Two African Species of the Danaine genus Tirumala 

 (Mblinda) as Models, and one as a Mimic. — Professor 

 Poulton exhibited T. formosa, Godman, and its mimic 

 Papilio rex, Oberth., from the Kiknyu Escarpment, near 

 Nairobi, British Blast Africa; the same Danaine, and the 

 transitional Papilio commixta, Auriv. , from Nyangori, at 

 the N.E. corner of the Victoria Nyanza ; T. mercedonia, 

 Carson, and Papilio mimetictu, Rothsch., from Buddu on the 

 W. shore of the lake; and T. morgeni, Honrath, with three 



* Tli is resemblance was pointed out by Rev. K. St. Aubyn Rogers in 

 Trans. Knt. Soc, 1908, p. 507. It is worthy of remark that the eastern 

 and southern hiarbas bear a much narrower white bar than the western. 

 Although the Entebbe specimens are western in character, as in so many 

 other species, the forms of hiarbas from the parts of British East Africa 

 where Nepti was taken by Mr. St. Aubyn Rogers, are thoroughly 



eastern in the narrowness of the bar. ('hirimla is remarkable in the 

 possession of a local form of hiarbas in which the bar is again broader, 

 approaching, although without equalling, the western type. N. svoyn- 

 ncrtoni is, at the same time, distinguished Gram K. incongrua by its 

 broader white markings. The western affinity of other Chirinda forms 

 has been observed by Mr. G. A. K. Marshall. — E. B. P. 



y See, however, ]>. xxvii, where other species of Nipt is are associated 

 with Neptidopsis. The stripe running through the fore wing cell of 

 melicerta appears to separate its pattern from that of ophione. — E. B. P. 



t Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1902, pp. 384, 386, 387. 



