264 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



number and varying shades (creamy, yellow-oclireous, ferruginous, 

 black-and-wliite) of its transverse bands and chains of spots. 



As vs^ill be seen below, I have not been able to separate specifically 

 more than one of the many forms of H. Ilithyia (Drury) which have 

 been named by different authors, viz., the Malagasy H. Anvatara, 

 Boisd. ; but the form most prevalent in South-Eastern Africa (to 

 which Wallengren's name Acheloia is given), while it follows the type- 

 form in the extreme variability of its under-side colouring, is a suf- 

 ficiently recognisable variety. 



JH. Ilithyia is a handsome and conspicuous insect on the wing ; it 

 shows much more activity than Eurytda Hiarhas, and though more 

 frequent about woods, is often to be found in open ground. It ranges 

 over the whole of Africa, and as far eastward as India and Ceylon, its 

 near ally, H. Anvatara, appearing to replace it in Madagascar and 

 the Comoro Islands. 



The pupa is in form not unlike that of the allied genus Ergolis, 

 Boisd., judging from the figure given by Horsfield and Moore (Cat. 

 Lep. Ins. H.E.I.G. Museum, 1857, pi. vi. f 6a) of the chrysalis of the 

 Javan E. Coryta (Cram.) 



86. (1.) Hypanis Ilithyia, (Drury). 



Plate V. fig. 4 (Var. A. $ ). 



S Pajnlio Ilithyia, Drur., 111. IsTat. Hist., ii. pi. xvii. fF. i, 2 (1773). 

 ^ Papilio Polinice, Cram., Pap. Exot., iv. t. ccclxxv. ff. G, h (1782). 

 Bihlis liithj/ia, Godt. [part], Enc. Meth., ix. p. 327, 11. 7 (18 19). 

 Hypanis Polinice, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. pi. ix. f. 6 (1836). 

 Hypanis Cora, Feisth., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1850, p. 249, n. 2. 

 Hi/panis Ilithyia, Hopff. [part], Peters' Reise nach Mossamb., Ins., p. 396 



(1862). 

 ,, ,, Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 214, n. 124 (1866); 



and Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1870), p. 359. 

 Byhlia Ilithyia, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, p. 45, pi. 23, ff. 3, T^a (1881). 



Yar. a. Acheloia, Wallengr. 



Papiilio Ilythia, Cram., Pap. Exot., iii. t. 213, ff. a, b ( 5 ), and t. 214, ff. 



c, D {$), (1782). 

 Bihlis Ilithyia, Godt. [part], Enc. Meth., ix. p. 327, n. 7 (18 19). 

 Hypanis Ilithyia, Doubl., Gen. Uiurn. Lep., p. 411, pi. 68, f. i (1851). 

 Hypanis Ilithya, Wallgrn., K. Sv. Vet.-Ak. Handl., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., 



p. 29 n. I (1857). 

 Hypanis Acheloia, Vlallgni., op. cit., p. 29, n. 2 (1857). 

 Hypanis Ilithyia, Hopflf. [part], Peters' Reise nach Mossamb., Ins., p. 396 

 (1862). 

 „ „ Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 214, n. 124 (1866). 



Exp. al., I in. 8i lin. — 2 in. 3 lin. 



$ Warm fidvous-ochreoiis, ivith hlaclx, hands and other marhings. 

 Fore-wing : along costa, from base to a little distance before apex, a 

 moderately broad band, emitting downward three rather curved trans- 

 verse disco-cellular striag, — a wider, more oblique, subangulated bar 



