268 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {Typ. and Var, A.) Victoria Country 



b. Upper Districts. — Greytown (Ti/p.) Estcourt(/. 31. Hutchinson. 



-Typ.) 

 F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {Colonel II. Tower. — Vav. A.) Napoleon 

 Valley {J. H. Boivker.—Typ.) 

 K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District {T. Ayres. — Typ.) Marico 

 River {F. C. Selous. — Ty^^- and Var. A.) 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — Damaraland (ff. Hutclilnson, J. A. Bell, and 



W. 0. Palgrave. — Typ).) '' Angola (J. J. 3Io7iteiro)." — Druce. 



Congo (Coll. Brit. Mus.) "Chinchoxo (Falkenstein)." — Dewitz. 

 h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi River {Rev. H. Rowley). " Tette 



(Pefers)."— Hopffer. "Tchouacka (i?a/)-ay). "— Oberthur. 



"Mombas and Lake Jipe (0. Kerste7i)." — Gerstacker. 

 bi. Interior. — Kama's Country, near Bamangwato {H. Barber. — Typ.) 



B. North Tropical. 



a. Western Coast. — " Gaboon." — Oberthlir. Cape Coast Castle {J. 



M. Paslc. — Var. A.) Sierra Leone {Col. Brit, Mus.) " Casa- 

 manza," — Feisthamel. *' Senegal." — Drury. 



b. Eastern Coast. — " Somauliland." — Felder. " Samara : Tajurrah 



(/. K. Lord)."—B.. AValker. Abyssinia: "Schoa {Antinori)."-^ 

 Oberthur; " Harkeko (/. ^. ion/)."— F. Walker. "Atbara." 

 — A. G. Butler. " Nubia."— Hopffer. 



IV. Asia. 



A. Southern Region. — " Arabia." — Oberthur and Hopffer. India 

 (North India) : E. Ind. Mus. Madras : Brit. Mus. Ceylon {E. 

 L. Layard). 



Genus NEPTIS. 



Neptis, Fab., " Syst. Gloss. — Illiger's Mag., vi. p. 282 (1807);" Westw., 



Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 270 (1850). 

 Neptis and Athyma, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. pp. 145, 148 (1862). 



Imago. — Head broad, moderately hairy above and in front ; eyes 

 large, very prominent, smooth ; pal2n short, slender, acute, not rising 

 above level of forehead, scaly, clothed beneath with rather long but not 

 dense hair, and above with a little short hair, — second joint rather short, 

 — terminal joint long, broad at base, but ending in a very attenuated 

 and acute point ; antenna; rather short, with a gradually-formed elongate 

 but rather thick club, slightly flattened and hollowed inferiorly. 



Thorax about as broad as head, rather short and weak, slightly 

 hairy anteriorly, posteriorly, and inferiorly. Fore-ioings : elongate, 

 rather truncate ; costa but slightly arched ; apex more or less rounded ; 

 hind-margin very slightly sinuated, sometimes a little emarginate about 

 middle ; posterior angle marked ; inner margin rather convex near base, 

 but emarginate in middle ; costal nervure very short, ending on costa 

 before middle ; first subcostal nervule emitted considerably, second one 

 slightly, before extremity of discoidal cell in most species, but occa- 

 sionally the latter nervule originates at a little distance beyond cell ; 



