NYMPHALINiE. 



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Cramer's name of Mclcagris so well indicates the guinea-fowl style 

 of colouring of Dccdalus that it could be wished the Fabrician title had 

 not priority. The butterfly has a very wide distribution over the Tro- 

 pical parts of Africa, but is seldom met with in South Africa proper. 

 From the accounts of collectors who have observed its habits, it appears 

 to be an active insect, frequenting open spots as well as woods, and 

 often settlinar on the ofround. 



101. (1.) Hamanumida Daedalus, (Fabricius). 



Papilio Dcedalus, Fab., Syst. Ent., p. 482, n. 174 (1775). 



Papilio Melantha, Fab, o/x cit., p. 513, n. 297. 



Pajnlio Meleagris, Cram., Pap. Exot., i. t. Ixvi. K a, b (1779). 



„ „ Dru., 111. Nat. Hist., iii. pi. xxvii. fF. 3, 4 (1782). 



„ „ Fab., Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 128, n. 393 (1793). 



Nymplialis Meleagris and N. Dcedalus, Godt., Enc. Moth., ix. pp. 387-388, 



nn. 130-131 (1819), 

 Vanessa {Adolias) Meleagris, var., Reiche, in Ferr. and Gal. Voy. en Abyss., 



Ent., p. 468, pi. 32, ff, 3, 4 (1849). 

 Aterica Meleagris, Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lep., iii. p. 287 (1850). 



„ „ Trim., Rliop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 157, n. 93 (1862). 



Bxp. al., 2 in. 2 lin — 2 in. 7 lin. 



Soft Iroiviiish-grcij , vnth transverse rows of 2ohitc hlach-edgcd spots. 

 Fore-wing : in discoidal cell two irregular, zigzag, transverse black 

 lines, each more or less conspicuously bordered with white, and enclos- 

 ing a ivliite dot at their commencement ; closing cell is a similar 

 streak, but annular, and shaped like the figure 8 ; beyond cell, three 

 transverse rows of white spots commence on costa, — first row consider- 

 ably sinuate, from costa beyond middle to inner margin a little before 

 middle, consisting of seven or eight spots (only black-edged on their 

 inner side), — second row straighter, consisting of eight spots ringed 

 with black, but not extending below submedian nervure, — tiiird row 

 close and parallel to hind-margin, small, lunular, only black-edged on 

 their inner side (the first spot in $ enlarged so as to form a small 

 lohite tip to wing at apex). Hind-wing : three transverse rows of 

 spots in fore-wing continued across this wing, the innermost and middle 

 rows only as far as first median nervule, the outer row to anal angle ; 

 a thin black ring in discoidal cell, another closing cell, and a third 

 indistinct one touching the latter ring superiorly. Cilia grey, spotted 

 with white between nervules. Under side. — Bieh ochreous, tinged 

 with hrown, deeper towards hind-margins ; spots mostly rather larger 

 than on upper side, but not so sharply defined ; second transverse row 

 of spots grey-margined on their outer edge, making them appear ocel- 

 lated ; spots in outer row united to hind-marginal edge by short dark- 

 grey streaks. Fore-wing : a greyish space at anal angle ; annular 

 streak at extremity of discoidal cell enclosing a whitish space. Hind- 



