335' RHOFALOCERA AFRICA ATJSTRALlS. 



Pyrameis Cardui. P. 117. Hab. ButterWorth and 

 Bashee River (J. H. B.) ; Stellenbosch ; Paarl ; Wellington ; 

 Vogel Vley ; Bain's Kloof; Worcester ; Saldanha Bay ; 

 Umquabaaba River, Natal (R. C. J.) ; Damara Land 

 (J. A. B.). 



Mr. Bowker gives me the following localities for this ubiquitous insect : 

 "Met. with in Lower and Upper Albany, Fish River Valley, Somerset 

 East, Uitenhage, Graaff-Reinet, Colesberg, Cradock, Fort Beaufort, and in 

 the Free State as far as Modder River and Bloemfontein." Mr. W, F. 

 Kirby, in his paper " On the Geographical Distribution of European 

 Rbopalocera " (Tr. Ent. Sbc. Lond.) states, on the authority of Mr. 

 Bates, that Cardui does not occur iu Brazil, being there replaced by a 

 variety of P. Huntera, Fab. 



I append a description of a singular Variety of Cardui, taken by Mr. 

 D'Uiban st King William's Town. 



Fore-wing : suffused with blackish, to the confusion of the ordinary 

 markings; large apical white spot obliterated; blackish border at anal 

 angle broad and suffused. Hind-wing: blackish suffusion over the whole 

 costal region as far as apex ; row of black spots faint, whitish-centred ; 

 hind-niargioal rhomboidal spots not contiguous. UNDER-SIDE. Similarly 

 suffused. Fore-wing : large apical spot wanting ; anal angle varied with 

 whitish. Hind-wing: blackish suffusion obliterating costal and disco- 

 cellular white markings ; nervures yellowish-white ; first, third, and 

 fourth ocelli whitish, indistinct, merged in a white and grevish band 

 immediately succeeding them. 



. I imagine a singular-looking specimen that I saw near Cape Town 

 (December, 1861) to have belonged to this Variety. 



P. Hippomene.P. 121. Hab. Graham's Town (H. J.A.) ; 

 Bashee River (J. H. B.). 



Mr. Bowker writes : " Rare ; tops of trees, and often upon weeds in 

 old, deserted Kafir kraals. May and June." 

 Mr. Atherstone took it in August. 



Junonla (Enone.P. 125. Hab. Swelleiidam (L. T.) ; 

 Port Elizabeth (W. D.) ; Butterworth and Bashee River 

 (J. H. B.); Darnara Land (C. J. A. and J. A. B.) r 

 " Somauli Land " Felder ; " East Coast of Africa, 

 universally " E. L. Layard. 



Mr. Bowker states that the great enemy of this butterfly is a little 

 striped lizard, which cautiously apprDaches and then seizes its prey ; 

 "the lizards often hunt in pairs, driving the game from one to the other." 



/. delta.- P. 128. Hab. Kleinemond River (H. J. A.) ; 

 Bashee River to Coast East of Igora River (J. H. B.) ; 

 Damara Land (J. A. B.). 



" March and April " W. D. Mr. Bowker meets with this insect " iri 

 spring, summer, and autumn ; not seen in winter months. Open country : 

 on flowers of low plants and of mimosa. Lights often on stones, mole- 

 hills, and bare spots : easily taken." 



/. Octavia.P. l30.Si/n. ? Var. Precis Sirnia, Wlgr., 

 Lep. Rhop. Caffr., p. 26. Hub. Bashee River (J. H. B.). 



