I So SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



a ceutml, rather narrow, irregular, transverse bar, yellow in the $ and 

 white in the $. 



I found this variable butterfly numerous in Natal, but did not meet with 

 the rufous-coloured specimens, which (from a ,$ of that coloration having 

 been figured and described by llewitson, the founder of the species) must 

 be rcijjarded as the typical form. Although Mr. llewitson 's specimens are 

 recorded from Natal, the rufous form seems to be uncommon there, as 

 Colonel Bowker has only forwarded one example (and that aberrant), and I 

 have noticed but one other in collections formed in that Colony. Further 

 southward, however, and as far as King William's Town, Colonel Bowker 

 frequently met with it, and the specimens above mentioned as reared by Mr. 

 INIansol Weale were natives of the last-named locality. In the llewitson 

 Collection there is a $ of this form Libelled "Zambesi;" and in the same 

 Collection, and in the Hope Collection at Oxford, I noted wholly white- 

 banded 5 s of the variety A. from the same region. 



This is quite a sylvan species, often flying quite in the Avoods, and some- 

 times rather high among trees. I met with several, however, in gardens at 

 Pietermaritzburg, Natal. It kept out, and in fair condition, from the ist 

 February to the 8th April 1867. In very fresh specimens (as ]\Ir. ^lansel 

 Weale has also noted in one of his letters) there is a submetallic blue gloss 

 over the dark portions of the wings, and a slightly iridescent one over such 

 markings as are white. 



Localities of Planema Usehria. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



b. Eastern Districts.— King WiUiam's Town (W. S. M. U Urban 

 and /. //. Bowlcer). 



D. Kaffrtu'ia Proper. — Butterworth (/. //. Bowker). Bashee River 



(/. H. Bowker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. jNEouth of Tugela River 



(/. 11. Bowker). 



b. Tapper Districts. — Pietermaritzburg. 



F. Zululand.— St. Lucia Bay {Lieut.-CoL II. Tower). 



II. Other African Regions. 

 A. South IVopical. 



b. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi (lier. II. Howlei/). — In Coll. Hope, 

 Oxon. ; also in Coll. Hewitson. 



55. (2.) Planema Aganice, (Hewitson). 



(J Acrcea Aganice, Hewits., Exot. Butt., i. pi. 29, f. 6 (1S52). 

 9 Acriva Aganice, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 109, n. 69 (1862); and 

 IVans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xxvi. p. 516, pi. 42, f. 2 [^] (1869). 



Uxp. ah, Q) 2 in. 7-1 1 liu. ; ($) 3 in. s-/ lii^- 

 ^ Brmvnish-hlacJc ; a transverse pale-yellaw bar about middle of each 

 wine/. Fore-iriiu/ : bar rather beyond middle, commencing with two 



