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L. Narina, Godt., than to any other species. As the genus is found on 
the African continent,* it is not improbable that Pulgurata will be dis- 
covered there. 
One example of the Eryorntpm—a family abundantly developed in 
South America—has been found in the island, wiz.—Hmesis Tepahi, 
Bd. This insect seems more strictly referable to the genus Tazila, 
E. Doubl., which comprises several Oriental, and one, if not two, 
African species,—T. Tantalus, Bd., being a native of Ashanti,t and 
Baucis, Dru. (mentioned by Boisduval as congeneric with Tepahi) 
being recorded by Drury as inhabiting Sierra Leone. 
The eight species of Lycaninm known to occur belong to the 
genera Sithon (1), Lyccena (6), and ? (1). Sithon Batikeli, Ba. 
sp. (= Sithon Antalus, Hpffr.), is found in Eastern and Southern 
Africa.t Of the Lycene three—L. Rabe, Tsiphana, and Malathana, 
Bd.—seem endemic ; but the remaining three—Lysimon, Hiibn., Beetica, 
Linn., and Telicanus, Herbet—are remarkable for their extended range 
throughout Africa, and in Southern Europe and Asia. It is impossible 
to refer the species Tintinga, Bd., to any particular genus, the single 
specimen described by Boisduval having lost both head and body ; but, 
as its describer seems to consider that the insect has somewhat of the 
aspect of the curious Javanese Petavius, Godt. (= Petavia Sakuni, 
Horsf.), its affinities are probably Oriental rather than African, 
The Hesrerm#, as recorded by Boisduval, consist of 11 species, 
which I distribute generically thus, viz.:—Cyclopides (3), Pamphila (4), 
Nisoniades (1), Ismene (3), Cyclopides Bernieri and Rhadama, Bad., 
appear peculiar to Madagascar; but C. Malgacha, Bd., is found in 
Africa, as far south and west as Cape Town. Pamphila Havei and 
Pontiert, Bd., are recorded by Boisduval§ as natives of Natal, while P. 
Coroller and Andracne, Bd., are endemic. I have received Nisoniades 
Ophion, Dru., from Natal, and the species is figured and described by 
Drury as one from Western Africa. Ismene Florestan, Cram., has an 
African range, embracing Kaffraria, Querimba, Nubia, and Senegal ;}j 
I. Ratek, Bd., inhabits Natal; and I. Ramanatek, Bd., extends to 
Bourbon, if not to Mauritius. 
The above particulars of the distribution over the globe of the 
Madagascarian diurnal Lepidoptera yield the following result, when 
the families are tabulated (see p. 652) :— 
From this table it is apparent that 39, or rather more than 
half, of the butterflies of Madagascar are African; and of these 39 
species, 27 (nearly one-third of the Rhopalocerous Fauna) inhabit no 
other region besides Africa. Of the remaining 34 (no less than 28 of 
which are endemic), 1 (Hestia Lyncea) is an Asiatic form; 22 show 
* For this fact Iam indebted to Mr. Horace Waller, of the late Zambesi 
Mission, who has shown me a Libythea, closely allied to L. Myrrha, Godt., taken 
by him on the river Shire. 
+ E. Doubl., «List Lep. Ins., Coll. Brit. Mus.,’ pt. ii., p. 3. 
{ Batikeli will most probably be determined as a variety of Isocrates, Fab., a 
well-known Indian species. 
§ In Appendix to Delegorgue’s ‘ Voyage dans l'Afrique Australe, &c., p. 594. 
|| See Hpfr., op. cit., p. 414. 
