2o6 SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



above spiracular line ; head black ; legs, pro-legs, and spines as in 

 brown form. 



Described from drawings by Mrs. Barber of specimens found near 

 Grahamstown. Mrs. Barber wrote that the black-and-white second 

 form was very much rarer than the other, and fed lower down among 

 the branches of its food-plant, and that it always j)roduced the $, while 

 the commoner brownish form, she believed, produced ($ s only. 



I feel some uncertainty about this case, because at the time the 

 drawings were made I had in error, in my work on South-African 

 Butterflies, treated the $ E. Schceneia, mihi, as that of Hii^iJomene ; 

 and it seems possible that the differing larvse might really be tliose of 

 two distinct species. It is true that SchcBneia has not hitherto, to my 

 knowledge, been met with near Grahamstown, but it has occurred at 

 the Kowie River-mouth, a distance of under thirty miles. 



Pupa. — Ochreous-yellow ; a lateral ferruginous brown streak along 

 abdomen from pedicel almost to wing-covers. 



Described from a dead specimen forwarded by Mrs. Barber. 



This is an active, rapidly-flying insect, having quite the habits of Pyrameis 

 Carchii and its congeners. It is fond of settling on flowers in gardens, prefer- 

 ring those of Lantana. The male is often to be seen basking on a twig or leaf, 

 especially in open places on the outskirts of a wood, and darting off to pursue 

 the female or a rival of his own sex, only to return to his perch almost imme- 

 diately. At Highlands, near Grahamstown, I took, on 15th February 1870, a 

 female laying its eggs on a nettle ; and Mrs. Barber, who had reared the larvse, 

 informed me that this plant (Urtica mitis) was in that locality the habitual 

 food-plant of the species. The butterfly is on the wing from October to April. 

 It seems to be nowhere abundant, but commoner in some seasons than in 

 others. 



Localities of Eurcma Hijp'pomene. 



I. South Africa. 

 B. Cape Colony. 



a. Western Districts. — Knysna {Miss Wentivorth). 

 h. Eastern Districts.- — Port Elizabeth (J. H. JSowlier). Grahams- 

 town. Bedford {J. P. M. Weale). King William's Town ( W. 

 S. M.D'Urhan). 



D. Kaflfraria Proper. 



Butterworth and Bashee Eiver (/. //. Bowker). 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {J. H. Bowlier). IMapumulo. 

 &. Upper Districts. — Pietermaritzburg {Miss Colenso). 



II. Other African Eegions. 



A. South Tropical. 



hh. Madagascar. — " Fianarantsoa {Rev. W. Deans Coivan)" — A. G. 

 Butler. 



B. North Tropical 



h. Eastern Coast. — " Abyssinia : Shoa {Antinori)." — Oberthiir. 



