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MR. TIIIMEK ON MIMETIC ANALOGIES AMONG AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



(Ins. recueillis en Afrique, &c. t. vi. figs, la, Id). Danais Niavius is not confined to 

 >V st Africa, but also inhabits Natal, where it constantly presents broader white 

 markings, particularly in the hind wings* ; and it is most interesting to find that both 

 he Diadema and the JPapilio in that part of Africa vary in exactly the same manner 

 from the tropical type-form. Diadema Anthedon f has been taken at St. Lucia Bay by 

 ( I. Tower, and is reeorded from the Querimba Islands by Hopffer (in Peters's 'Keise 

 oach Moseambique,' p, 385); and there can therefore be little doubt of its occurrence 



m company with Niar'ms in the intermediate Zambesi region. 



I did not find this Danah commoner than the Diadema at Natal, during my visit in 

 ^i -h part of,1897; but Mr. M'Ken, the Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens at 

 I ' 'ban, inform, I me that it was more plentiful at another season of the year So 



the ..semblance between this butterfly and Diadema Anthedon 



the 



y rare at 



** awe, certain as to which butterfly I had captured, until close examination 

 had been Bade. The JI , ppocoon-fovm of the } Papilu, Merope seemed veiv rare 

 "■'''' ""*' ' V!lm '' 1 ", onl y ^8 token, by my Kafir collector, near D'Urban. As far . 



Z ZZ"l , "° W "' f C CXt T dS ' h ° WeVer> tUs f ° m ° f the female *•**» Wears to ran; 

 t ;„,";, " " lther thcD( ' mk **"»™°*em; for I have seen two exampl, 



Ka r wna pi . 0111T , )y Mr . Jt H _ Bowker; ^ anothw ^^ ^ foaha l m 



i ,, . - - -»v*, t*x^ ajauuiici uxxlvu. near ix 



lyib, Jiarber. The S Popiiio Merope, it should be observed, as weU 



the 





Crura fn..m «f o r. • i ,-. ■ '"^» XX1 ouuulu u « ouservea, as well as tne 



- > m of , , 0CCU1 , m bQth thQse localit . eg) and as to ^ gouth and ^ 



Knysna G 



V Dan a is Chbtsippus, IJnn. (Tab. XLII. fie 5) 



Chrysippi 



Alcippt 



U^^fe thewMe of *** ranges through southern 



Ualavan ArehJeLo It "* "* * "^^^ fr ° m Java ' Ceram > and Timor > * the 



^d, according to Godart if ^ 6XtendS ^ Southern Euro P e ( Greec e and Turkey), 

 {Akipjm t Cr.) in which the diak^^ f XaplGS ' Jt preSents tw0 ™rieties,-one 



*» other (I)onpp„ s KiiM ' i WmgS is more or less suffused with wmte; 



■*»» bar. -re obliterated IbrZ 1 ^ ^ ^ ° f the f ° re win ^ and its obH< l 

 to be mnof fw i . . - . J wicK-red ground-colour ±. Both th^sp vnripfiVs sef 



to he most frequent in Vfric Al ' B iUL ^u-coiour j. .Both these varieties seem 



different parts of that com' f? ^^ U ° Wn h '° m four ' and Dori PP us from three 



• 4n ^ . , , . me " ls ne edless to dwell upon the very striking 



An example of this southern virfet \ 



Hope Museum at Oxforf. ' 3 ** br ° Ught from &* Zambesi by the Key. H. Kowley, and is now in the 



Africa Australia,' pt. ii D qoo u 



'1- in the absent J • 6 ^^ ^'^^n as a synonym of dubia. This is an 



'• «" '>y ins mention of ,/„/,/„ a , h ^ n ulwm > v > uowauval's desc 



^e type of K, ug ^ z^^ , ™^ ^ ^^ ^ ^-, Niavius 



(F; 



fr ° m Xew D-^i "■! Ambukhol onlheV-r^^ 1 * PhySiC * ' {hC ' dL figS ' l ~ 4 ^ consists of examples of both sexes, 

 *"•* and a broad white 8 uff Ils J J «_ .. f , m L ° Wer Xubia ' whi ch present both the red suffused anex of the fore 



Uantfl th " "Wi ^ th, hind win« but J , ,i V he hiDd WingS * The U variet y " «f the male, however (fig. 5), 



^ but has a doll fuscous shade over the basal half of both wings. 



