ii6 SOUTH- AFEIC AN BUTTEKFLIES. 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Damaraland {C. J. Andersson and /. A.'. Bell). 

 " Angola (Po^r/e)."— Dewitz. Congo (Coll. Brit. Mus.) " Chin- 

 choxo, Loango {Falkenstein)" — Dewitz. 



h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi {Rev. H. Roivley). — Coll. Hope Mus. 

 Oxon. " Querimba." — Hopffer. 



hh. Msidagascar {V. de RoMUard). "Bourbon." — Boisduval. Mauri- 

 tius. " Rodriguez (G. Gulliver)."— A. G. Butler. 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Ashanti and Sierra Leone (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 



b. Eastern Coast. — "Shoa, Abyssinia (Antiiiori)." — Oberthiir. 



IV. Asia. 



A. Southern Region. — India (Nepaul, Silhet, Ceylon : — Coll. Brit. 



Mus. ; Scinde : — " Kurrachee," C. Swinhoe ; Bengal : — Boisduval 

 and Eelder) ; Burmah (Moulmein :— Coll. Brit. Mus.) " China."— 

 Drury and Boisduval. Philippine Islands (Manilla : Lorquin). 



B. Malayan Archipelago. — Java, Borneo, Celebes, and Cerani (Coll. 



Brit. Mus.) 



V. Australia. — Queensland (Brisbane : W. H. Mishin). 

 VI. Oceania. — "Otaheite." — Fabricius and Eelder. 



30. (2.) Melanitis diversa, (Butler). 



Gnophodes Parmerio, Trim, [part], Rhop, Afr. Aust., ii. p. 190, n. 107 (1866). 

 „ Butl. [part], Cat. Satyr. Coll. Brit. Mus., p. 6 (1S68). 

 „ diversa, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), v, p. 333 (1880). 



Exp. at., 2 in. 11 lin. — 3 in. 3 lin. 



Dull-brown, greyish-tinged for the greater part, but darker externally 

 {especially in fore-wing) ; a curved ochre-yelloio transverse bar crossing 

 fore-ioing in its darker outer portion. Fore-wing : costa speckled with 

 ochre-yellow along its edge ; curved bar commencing rather broadly 

 on costa beyond middle, and narrowing to a point at posterior angle : 

 its inner edge distinct, with three inter-nervular excavations, its outer 

 edge ill-defined below second radial, whence the bar is more or less one 

 with a narrow hind-marginal bordering of ochre freckled with short 

 blackish lines and atoms. Hind-iving : a very narrow yellow-ochreous 

 edging, freckled with blackish throughout, but "more thickly so in its 

 inferior portion, from costa beyond middle to anal angle ; immediately 

 before it, between third median nervule and anal angle, a somewhat 

 indistinct clouding of pale-grey thickly hatched with short black lines. 

 Cilia of fore-wing brown mixed with whitish ; of hind- wing whitish 

 with very thin nervular brown interruptions. Undek side. — Paler- 

 brown ; ajncal area of fore-iving and costal border of hind-wiing pale 

 cream-colour ; the whole surface irregularly hatched and irrorated with 

 dark-brown short lines and atoms, more conspicuous on the creamy 

 parts. Fore-ioing : costa transversely marked with irregular creamy 

 lines uniting into four indistinct cellular fascice ; creamy apical area 



