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Nymphaline of a group not remote from that represented by 

 the genus Neptis. E. hiarhas 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 

 JVeptis 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 {op. cit., p. 258) to the much closer 

 resemblance existing between the Tropical-African Eurytela 

 {Neptidopsis) opliione, Cram., and Neptis melicerta, Drury ;* 

 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 

 distastefulness of the conspicuous N. agatha. "]" 



, R. Trimen." 



Two African Species op the Danaine genus Tirumala 

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

 PouLTON <• exhibited T. formosa, Godman, and its mimic 

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

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

 transitional Papilio commixta, Auriv. , from Nyangori, at 

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

 Karsch, and Papilio mimeticus, Rothsch, from Buddu on the 

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

 of its A'tnauris models— psyttalea, Plotz, hecate, Butler, and 

 an undetermined species, probably new, from the Cameroona. 

 The specimens otforviosa, mercedonia, and their models were 

 those figured in Plates XI and XII accompanying Mr. S. A. 

 Neave's paper in Ent. Soc. Trans., 1906, p. 207, and it was 



where Neptis incoiigrua was taken by Mr. St. Auljyn Rogers, are thoroughly 

 eastern in the narrowness of the bar. Chirinda is remarkable in the 

 possession of a local foi-m of hiarhas in which the bar is again broader, 

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

 nertoni is, at the same time, distinguished from N. incongrua by its 

 broader white markings. The western alBnity of other Chirinda forms 

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



* See, however, p.xxvii, where other species of Neptis 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. Lend., 1902, pp. 384, 386, 387. 



