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Umgeni River, and may be some 400 feet above sea level. 
The Cemetery itself is neglected and overgrown with 
coarse grass and herbage, which doubtless nourishes many 
larvae, while there are enough flowers to attract butterflies. 
The grassy lanes on either side afford excellent collecting 
eround, and, although most of the land around is cultivated, 
there is some scrub to the south. 
Here we found, besides our familiar friend Zimnas 
chrysippus, Linn., our first specimens of Amauris albima- 
culata,* Butl., both males. Single specimens of the 
beautiful dark red Acrxa petra, Boisd., and of A. natalica, 
Boisd., a male, were taken. The fore-wings of the last- 
named are when the insect is fresh of a fine rose-crimson, 
the hind part of the abdomen (in the male) being banded 
above with pale rose-pink and white, but white beneath. 
Males of A. terpsichore, Linn., were fairly common, 
especially among dead grass. A. encedon, Linn., of which 
two examples were taker, was so successful in its mimicry 
of L. chrysippus, as at first to make one of us believe it to 
be that species. 
In the Cemetery a few males of Hypolimnas misippus, 
Linn., were sailing around, flying high and seldom flapping 
their wings, but no females were observed. In an open 
space within the enclosure, as well as in a cleared mealy- 
field adjoining, Precis clelia, Cram., was locally common, 
settling on the bare earth and on the grave-stones ; with 
them were a couple of P. cebrene, Trim., but that species 
was commoner in the dry bed of a spruit half-a-mile to 
the north; some of the specimens were very small. Three 
examples of P. natalica, Feld., were taken; P. sesamus, 
Trim., was not uncommon. Only two Catacroptera [Precis] 
cloantha, Cram., were seen, one of them in the dry spruit. 
Lurytela hiarbas, Dru., was very common about hedgerows. 
Single specimens of Pyrameis cardui, Linn., and Salamis 
anacardii, Linn., turned up. Several male specimens of 
Byblia goetzius, Herbst, were taken, but it was hardly 
common. Charaxes varanes, Cram., required considerable 
negotiation to effect its capture, as its flight is both high 
and strong, but it has a habit of settling at the end of a 
prominent twig, and is then fairly easily detected in spite 
of the resemblance of its under-surface to a leaf. 
Of Mycalesis safitza, Hew., two females were taken, one 
* For the specific distinctness of this form from A. echeria, Stoll, 
see ROTHSCHILD AND JORDAN, Novit. Zool. x, 1903, p. 504. 
