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other localities mentioned below, but none of these, except the Intzutze River 

 was at any distance from the coast. Colonel Bowker did not find this butter- 

 fly in Kaffraria Proper, nor have I seen any specimens from that region ; but 

 a single individual was in 1870 taken by Miss Agnes Bowker on the Buffalo 

 River, near King William's Town, and there is thus some reason for supposing 

 that 'the species does inhabit the country between the Cape Colony and 

 Natal. 



Localities of Pardopsis jmndatissima. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



b. Eastern Districts. — King William's Town (Miss Agnes Boivker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Verulam. Mapumulo. 



b. Upper Districts. — Intzutze River, Great Noodsberg. 



F, " Zululand [A. Delegorgue)." — Boisduval. 



H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourenjo Marques [Mrs. Monteiro). 



II. Other African Regions. " \ 



A. South Tropical. 



b. Eastern Coast. — Zanzibar (Coll. Brit. Mus.) 

 hb. Madagascar. 



Sub-Family 4.— NYMPHALIN^. 



Nymphalides, AIorj)hides, and Biblides, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. pp. 165-167 



(1836). 

 Ageronidse, Nymj>haJidse; Morpliidx (part), and Eurytelidee, Doubl, and 



Westw., Gen. D. Lep., i. pp. 81, 143; and ii. pp. 332, 403 (1852). 

 Nymplialidee, and Eiirytelidee, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 112; and ii. 



p. 210 (1862-66). 

 Nymylialinse, Bates, Journ. Ent., 1861, p. 220; 1864, p. 176. 



Imago. — Head of moderate size or rather broad, more or less 

 hairy ; eyes rather large, seldom hairy ; imlin always well developed, 

 projecting considei-ably in front of head, clothed with scales, and 

 beneath more or less compactly with hairs ; antenna: usually long and 

 stout, their club sometimes broad, abruptly formed, and flattened, — 

 sometimes gradually formed and more or less cylindrical. 



Thorax always robust, in some genera very long and thick, more 

 or less pilose. Wings large and of thick consistency, the nervures 

 strong and rigid. Fore-wings : variable in outline, commonly more or 

 less pointed or produced apically, often angulated ; almost always with 

 the hind- margin more or less sinuate or dentate ; costa well or strongly 

 arched ; inner margin usually more or less emarginate about middle ; 

 discoidal cell usually short, more often closed than open, but the closino- 

 lower disco-cellular nervule commonly very attenuated ; nervures rarely 

 swollen basally ; subcostal nervure emitting one or two branches before 

 extremity of discoidal cell, the fifth branch always with an obliquely 



