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the species just named possessing from five to seven, but more com- 

 monly six or seven on the upper side, and invariably seven on the 

 under side.^ 



As noted by me in the Transactions of the Entomological Society for 1868, 

 I discovered this striking form on the eastern border of Natal in 1867. Early 

 in March I found it abundantly in the high lying woods at Tunjumbili, over- 

 looking the Tugela River. The pure white spots of the fore-wings are very 

 conspicuous in flight, and give the butterfly a very difl'erent aspect from that 

 of its very close ally, Dendropliilus. The habits of Indosa are quite like those 

 of Dendropliilus, and I noticed little companies of from six to ten settled head 

 downwards on the trunks or low branches of trees, especially towards sunset. 

 No 5 s occurred among the individuals I took ; but in 1879 a Transvaal speci- 

 men of that sex was received from Mr. T. Ayres and others quite recently 

 (April and May 1884) from near Pinetown, Natal, Avhere they were captured 

 by Colonel Bowker. The last-named gentleman informs me that he secured 

 several fine examples, including one $ , by sugaring the stump of a tree in a 

 spot where he had noticed the species ; and also that he has observed specimens 

 frequenting human excreta and fallen fruit. Colonel Bowker forwarded to me 

 a dried specimen of the plant on which he believes Indosa to feed. It is one 

 of the Acanthacece, and has been kindly determined by Mr. P. MacOwan as 

 Hijpoestes aristata. 



Localities of Lethe Indosa. 



I. South Africa. 

 E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown (J. II. Bowlcer). Intzutze River. 

 h. Upper Districts. — Tunjumbili (Fort Buckingham). Karkloof 

 (/. H. Bowker). 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). 



Genus MENERIS. 

 Meneris, Westwood, Gen. Diurn, Lep., ii. p. 296 (1850). 



Imago. — Head of moderate size, densely hairy ; eyes large, clothed 

 with short hair ; pal^n of moderate length, ascendant, compressed 

 laterally, clothed above and on the sides with a short velvety ]3ile, 

 densely hairy beneath, slightly convergent, — the terminal joint very 

 small and distinct, short, slender, smooth ; antcnnoj long and rather 

 thick, with the club elongate, gradually formed, cylindrical, outwardly 

 curved and pointed at the tip. 



Thorax rather robust, elongate-ovate, densely hairy on the back, 



^ Colonel Bowker, early in February 1886, found an interesting small variety of Indosa at 

 Karkloof, some twenty-two miles north-west of Maritzburg, at an elevation of about 5000 

 feet. The two Ss sent to me measure respectively only 2 in. 6 lin. and 2 in. 7 lin. across 

 the wings, while the $ barely expands 3 in. Both sexes, moreover, show a slight approach 

 to L. dendropliilus in a slight ochre-yellowish suffusion of the lower spots of the discal row in 

 the fore-wings. Colonel Bowker mentioned that this variety was numerous about rotten fruit 

 in the garden of a farmer, and that the more active i s flew round in a certain line, and all 

 ended by flying into the base of an old quince hedge, where he suspected there must have 

 been the pupa of a $ , 



