the Butterflies of the White Nile. 21 



At Sallom Junction, on the railway between Port Sudan 

 and Khartum, a native boy brought me a male misippus 

 in his fingers. Some weeks later I found both sexes fairly 

 common at Port Sudan, where I took typical females as 

 well as females of the form inaria, Cram, (mimicking the 

 dorippus form of chrysippus). Specimens of both these 

 forms had traces of white on the upper surface of the 

 hind- wings. 



It is notable that the Cairo collectors know of but two 

 specimens having occurred in that district during many 

 years ; in fact, they look upon it as a great rarity. 



This familiar butterfly ranges over all tropical and South 

 Africa as well as India, Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago. 



In two females I detected a shght treacly odour. 



9. Hamanumida daedalus, Fabr. 



This characteristic African butterfly is known to occur 

 on the Bahr al-Ghazal, where it has been taken by Selous 

 and others, and I am practically certain that I saw a 

 specimen on Februarv 15th, 1912, at Mongalla [Lat. 5° 

 12' N.]. 



Col. Yerbury took a single example at Aden ; it has been 

 reported from Abyssinia and Somaliland. It is found 

 throughout tropical Africa, but stops short of Cape Colony. 



10. Neptis agatha, Cram. 



Loat took two specimens at Gondokoro. 



On February 12th, 1912, a short distance below Kiro 

 [Lat. 5° 22' N.] I had a clear unmistakable view from the 

 steamer of a Neptis of the size of agatha skimming over 

 the herbage at the water's edge. 



This species has been taken at Shoa, in Abyssinia [circa 

 Lat. 10° N.] — perhaps the northern limit of the genus in 

 East Africa^ — and has a wide range in Central, East, West, 

 and South Africa. 



11. Byhlia ilithyia, Drury. 



Taken by Dunn on the Bahr al-Zarafa. Loat took a 

 female near Kaka [Lat. 10° 40' N.], where the Swedish 

 expedition also took a female. 



In 1912 I took in all five specimens, viz. — a female at 

 Melut [Lat. 10° 27' N.]. a male and two females at Tawfi- 

 kiya [Lat. 9° 25' N.], and a female at Kanisa [Lat. 6° 50' N.]. 



