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Mr. W. L. Distant on the 



to time identified and described by Mr. R. Trimen ; the 

 writer also published a list of his captures made during the 

 years 1890-91. Since tlien 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. II. Grose-Smith, and from Dr. A. (t, 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. 



Own 

 collection. 



Danainte 2 



SatyrinjB 12 



Acrteinfe 17 



Nymplialinoe 27 



Lyctenidse 44 



Pierinfe 29 



Papilioninse 6 



Hesperiidse 25 



162 76 238 



Nymphalidae. 



Danain^. 



Zinnias chri/sipjms, I.inn. Generally distributed. 



Var. alcippus, Ciani. Pretoria (March). 



Var. dorijipus, Kluo-. Pretoria (March). 

 Amauris domuiicanus, Trim. Parberton (January), 



Amauris echeria, Stoll. 



albimaculata, Putl. 



oc/dea, Boisd. 



Recorded elsewhere. 



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

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



Limnas dorippus^ Klug, almost universally considered a 

 varietal forniot L.chri/si/ijjus, is a rare buttcrfiy in South 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 

 Mahuo, in the most southern part of JSwedeu. 



