South African Butterflies. 287 



I would here observe (1) that, in my second sentence 

 above quoted, the words ^Hhe variety ^^ mean Eusirus 

 (not inj'iista) — the form just before referred to as, in my 

 opinion, " a strongly-marked example of the ^ Evenus," 

 — and that I subsequently remark that " M. injusta 

 appears to be this variety " — i. e. the same variety as 

 Eusirus, of which I had received a Kaffrarian example ; 

 — (2) that Evemis can scarcely with justice be termed 

 a "more recent^' species than Eusirus, seeing that both 

 forms were originally described together, by Hopffer, on 

 the same page of the Journal above mentioned ; and 

 (3) that I never expressed the opinion that Wallengren's 

 injusta " linked'^ Evenus and Eusirus, but that it was 

 the same as, or synonymous with, the latter. 



Mr. Butler, however, gives (p. 129) M. injusta as a 

 "Var. (^" of M. Evenus, a view in which I quite concur, 

 the only difference on this point being that I go rather 

 further, and, from a comparison of Wallengren's and 

 Hopffer's descriptions with the latter's figures, hold in- 

 justa and Eusirus as in all probability one and the same 

 form. 



I would only further remark that, whereas Wallengren 

 distinctly indicates (Lep. Rhop. Caffi:'. p. 34) that his 

 Mycalesis Caffra is of the " ? " sex, Mr. Butler quotes 

 him for the c? , at the same time giving M. Gamhius, 

 Doubl., as the ? of Gaffra. 



Without professing to define the limits of species in so 

 perplexing a genus as Mycalesis, I may be permitted to 

 express the conviction, founded on the examination of 

 numerous specimens, and on personal acquaintance with 

 the living insects in various stations, that it will be 

 found impossible to separate, as species distinct from 

 each other, any of the South African forms above 

 mentioned. 



Yphthima Lisandka (Var. Lara), (p. 150). 



Papilio Lara, Donovan, Nat. Repos., ii. pi. 71. 



YptJiima laroides, Westw., in Gen. Di. Lep. p. 395. 



I only refer to this species in order to point out that 

 there is no ground whatever for considering it as a native 

 of South Africa, as Donovan only gives the locality 

 " Cape of Good Hope," under the mistaken impression 

 that his insect is the Lara of Linnteus. Donovan quotes 



