22 LLOYD^ ftAfUkAL HlSTO&V. 



Mr. Trimen describes the larva of JV. echeria as having five 1 

 pairs of divergent sub-dorsal filaments. It is black, with blue 

 and orange longitudinal stripes. The perfect insect has a 

 rather high, graceful, soaring flight, presumably somewhat like 

 that of Hestia. 



The species of Amauris and its allies are mimicked by 

 various species of Papilio^ Hypolimnas, &c., found in the 

 regions which they inhabit; but these can at once be dis- 

 tinguished from them by differences in the neuration, &c. 



NEBRODA LOBENGULA. 

 (Plate VI , Fig. i.) 



Nebroda lobengula, E. M. Sharpe, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 (6), vi., p. 34 (1890). 



Nearest to JV. echeria, Stoll (Amauris echeria, Kirby, Syn. 

 Cat. Lepid., p. 8), but differing in the much greater extent of 

 yellow on the hind-wing. There is a row of unequal yellow 

 spots on the hind marginal border, extending to the sub median 

 nervure. The base of the hind-wing is deep brown. 



The fore-wing has a moderately large yellowish spot in the 

 middle of the discoidal cell, with a second larger oval spot 

 between the first and second median nervules. 



Between the radial or discoidal nervules there are two me- 

 dium-sized yellowish spots near the apical portion. At the apex 

 of the fore-wing there is a row of small white spots extending to 

 the hind margin, with four smaller white spots outside the 

 first row of spots, placed about the middle of the fore-wing. 

 Along the costal margin there are two white spots. The under 

 side of the fore- wing is of a lighter brown, having all the spots 

 plainly marked in white with the exception of the two larger 

 spots, which are yellow. 



The hind-wing is similar to the fore-wing, having the 

 yellow basal area quite as dark as on the upper side, and the 



