204 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



strongly angulated and curved ; second and third median 

 branches rather near together. 



" Body robust ; metathorax clothed with long silky hairs ; 

 palpi short, densely hairy; antennae moderately long, rather 

 thick, with gradually formed club." 



The type of this genus, Eronia deodora, Hiibner, is a widely- 

 distributed species in Southern and Eastern Africa. It is a 

 Butterfly expanding from two to nearly three inches across the 

 wings, which are short, broad, and slightly dentated, the tip of 

 the fore-wings being slightly pointed. The wings are white or 

 yellowish-white, with a rather broad black border, broadest in 

 the female, somewhat irregular on the inner edge, and widened 

 at the tip of the fore-wings, where it is marked with one or 

 two small white spots. On the under side the borders are 

 silvery-grey, more or less bordered with black, especially on the 

 inner edge, and sometimes dusted with ferruginous ; the fore- 

 wings are white, and there is a yellow spot on the border to- 

 wards the tip ; the hind-wings are bright yellow, with variable 

 scattered brown and silvery-grey markings, the largest and most 

 constant being on the costa. 



Mr. Trimen mentions that Mrs. Barber and Mr. Mansel 

 Weale have found the larva on Camparis zeyheri. It resembles 

 that of a Callosune, and is difficult to find, the reddish-yellow 

 lateral stripe matching in tint the edge of the leaves. 



The other species, Dryas leda, included by Dr. Butler in 

 typical Erottia, is a very different-looking Butterfly, inhabiting 

 East Africa, and the warm districts of South Africa. The wings 

 are rather more regularly rounded, and less denticulated than in 

 E. chodora, and the tip of the fore-wings is less pointed. The 

 wings are sulphur-yellow, with a large " orange-tip " on the 

 fore-wings, slightly edged with black on the outside. On the 

 under side the fore-wings are white, with the tip and hind-wings 

 of a deeper yellow than above, flecked with brown and ferru- 



