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Mr. W. L. Distant on the 



to time identified and described bj Mr. R. Triraen j the 

 writer al.-^o published a list of his captures made during the 

 years 1890-91. Since then three more years (1893-96) 

 passed in the Transvaal have added largely to his previous 

 collections, and the following specific enumeration, to which 

 has been added the records of other workers, may be taken 

 as a proximate account of our present knowledge of the 

 butterflies of this area. From Dr. P. Kendall I received a 

 list of his species taken near Eureka, sent to and identified 

 by Mr. H. Grose-Smith, and from Dr. A. G. Butler a list of 

 species taken by Mr. Kirby in the " Eastern Transvaal." 



I am able to enumerate 238 species as found in the Trans- 

 vaal, of which 162 are contained in my own collection and 

 76 are recorded elsewhere. The list will doubtless be 

 increased when the warm and unhealthy north-eastern regions 

 of the State have been visited by a good collector. 



Danainse . . . 

 Satyrinas . , . 

 Acrseinse . . . 

 Nymphalinse 

 Lycsenidse . . . 



Pieriuae 



Papilioninse . 

 Hesperiidae . 



162 



76 



238 



Nymphalidae. 



Danain^. 



Limnas chrysippus, Linn. Generally distributed. 



Var. alcippus, Cram. Pretoria (Marcli). 



Var. dorip2nis, King. Pretoria (March). 

 Amauvis dominicanus, Trim. Barberton (January). 



Amauris echeria, StoU. 



albhnaculata, Butl. 



ochlea, Boisd. 



Recorded elsewhere. 



Barberton (Trimen, S. A. Butt.). 

 Eastern Transvaal (Butler, P. Z. S. 1898). 



Limnas donppus, Klug, almost universally considered a 

 varietal ioxmoi L. chrysippus, is a rare butterfly in Soutli Africa. 

 I took one specimen near Pretoria from among a very large 



villius, is not located at Stockholm, but is contained in the Museum of 

 Malmo, in the most southern part of Sweden. 



