the Butterflies of the White Nile. 13 



Phillips. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1896, pp. 523- 

 529. 



21. Sharpe, Miss E. M. B. A List of the Lepidopterous 



Insects collected on the Red Sea, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Suakim, by Mr. Alfred J. Cholmley. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1897, pp. 775-777. 



22. Sharpe, Miss E. M. B. A Monograph of Teracolus 



(1901). 



23. Trimen, R, South African Butterflies, 3 vols. 



(1887-89). 

 *24. Trimen, R. Manuscript Notes on Lepidoptera 

 collected by Mr. F. C. Selous on the White Nile 

 and in the Southern Bahr el-Ghazal, between 

 Feb. 17th and Apr. 10th, 1911. 

 (Kindly lent by the author.) 



25. Walker, F. A List of the Butterflies collected by 



J. H. Lord, Esq., in Egypt, along the African Shore 

 of the Red Sea, and in Arabia, with descriptions of 

 the Species new to Science. Entomologist, vol. v, 

 pp. 48-57 (1870). 



(It is said that the types were claimed by the 

 then Khedive and placed by him in the museum 

 attached to the School of Medicine at Cairo, where 

 they perished owing to neglect. This paper 

 promised to be interesting; but Walker's state- 

 ment that such conspicuous butterflies as Teracolus 

 frotomedia, T. eupompe and T. halimede were 

 taken bv Lord in the Cairo district, convinces me 

 that either he or Lord had muddled up the localities 

 of the insects dealt with, since the butterflies 

 named are not known to occur within several 

 hundred miles of Cairo. The paper therefore is 

 worthless for my purpose.) 



26. Yerbury, J. W. The Butterflies of Aden ' and 



neighbourhood, with some Notes on their Habits. 

 Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, 1892. 



The Area dealt with. 



Strictly speaking the name AVhite Nile should be con- 

 fined to that part of the river (Bahr al-Abyad) between 

 the mouth of the Blue Nile (Bahr al-Azrak) opposite to 

 Omdurman and nearlv two miles below Khartum, and 

 Lake No, where the Bahr al-Ghazal joins the Balir al- 



