310 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



icing : first and second rows of spots both extending to submedian 

 nervure by an additional spot; black rings in cell enclosing white 

 spots. 



In some specimens the ground-colour of under side is more obscured than 

 described above, and the white spots are indistinct. This is the form first 

 described by Fabricius under the name of Bcedalus. His type-specimen of 

 Melantlia, too — which I have examined in the Banksian Collection of the 

 British Museum — has the under-side spots almost obsolete. In the same col- 

 lection there is a specimen with the spots in question well marked ; and in the 

 Entomologia Systematica (p. 128) Fabricius describes as Meleagris a specimen 

 with the white spots on the under side, and notes, " Mus. D. Banks," 



Mr. Druce {Proc. Zool. Soc. Loncl., 1875, p. 411) notes that specimens 

 from Angola were " very pale-coloured, with the white spots much smaller 

 than in specimens from Old Calabar." 



This well-known and widely-dispersed native of Tropical Africa is far from 

 common in South Africa proper, to judge from the few examples that have 

 reached me. Mr. W. Morant, who took two specimens near Pretoria in March 

 1872, wrote to me that one was met with frequenting bare patches of ground 

 on the top of a rocky hill, and the other settling on a sandy footpath in low 

 ground. These two specimens were of opposite sexes, and both white-spotted 

 on the under side, but not conspicuously so. The only example sent by Colonel 

 Bowker from D'Urban (February 1883) is also white-spotted beneath; he 

 described its habits as like those of Pyrameis Cardui, and noted that it settled 

 on a footpath with wings expanded. 



Localities of Hamanumida Dcedalus. 



I, South Africa. 



E. Natal. 



a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban (i/. /. APKen and /. H. BowJcer). 



F, Zuhdand. — St, Lucia Bay {Colonel H. Tower). 



H, Delagoa Bay. — Louren§o Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 

 K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Aijres). Rustenburg {V. E. 

 Noren). VvQiono. {W. Morant). Limpopo River (i^. C. /SeZous). 



II. Other African Regions. 



A. South Tropical. 



a. "Western Coast. — Damaraland {0. J. Andersson and /. A. Bell). 



"Angola (/. /. Monteiro)." — H. Druce. 



b. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi Yalley {Rev. H. Roioley). " Querimba." 



— Hopffer. "Kiriama {Kersten)." — Gerstacker. 

 bi. Interior. — Shashani River {F. C. Selous). "Umvungu {F. 

 Oates). "— Westwood. 



B. North Tropical, 



a. Western Coast. — Cape Coast Castle (/, M. PasJc). Cape Palmas 



{E. Bourhe). Sierra Leone {A. N. Innes). 

 h. Eastern Coast. — *' Abyssinia : Shoa {Antinori)." — Oberthur. 



Genus HAEMA. 



Harma, Westw., Gen, Diurn, Lep., ii. p. 287 (1850). 



Imago. — Head of moderate size, with a tuft of hair on vertex and 

 in front ; eyes smooth ; palpi short, scaly, inserted rather widely apart, 

 and not or slightly convergent at tips, basal joint hairy beneath, middle 



