932 W. F. KIRBY, F.E.S. 
The Cratrman (H. Cadman Jones, Esq.).—I am sure we are all 
much obliged to Mr. Kirby for his paper, and if there are any 
present who have studied the subject and would desire to offer 
criticisms, we shall all be glad to hear them. 
Rev. F. A. Watker, D.D., F.L.S.—I will just make a few remarks 
on Mr. Kirby’s most interesting paper. 
Page 225.—The affinity here mentioned between the Fauna of 
Madagascar and that of Hast Africa is an undoubted fact, but surely 
a certain relationship between the butterflies of West Africa and 
those of Madagascar is equally evident. Of the three species of genus 
Godartia that I possess, two, Kurinome and Trajanus, are from 
West Africa, Trajanus being from the region of the Cameroons, 
and the third, as its name Madagascariensis imports, from Mada- 
gascar. I note that Mr. Kirby,in his synonymic catalogue of “ Diurnal 
Lepidoptera,” styles this genus Lwaxanthe, and only enumerates two 
species, —Eurinome and Madagascariensis,—but in the appendix to 
the same work mentions a third,—Ansellica,—from Kinsembo. I 
may add that there is greater similarity of marking between the 
West African species, Ewrinome, and the Madagascar ditto, Mada- 
gascariensis, than between the two West African species, Lurinome 
and Trajanus. 
Again, in the tribe of Papilios known as the “ Nireus ” group, 
the West African species, Hrinus from the Gaboon, Bromius from 
the Cameroons, and Charopus from Calabar, are as closely allied to 
the species Oribazus and Disparilis from Vohama, in Madagascar, 
as are the East African kinds, Hornimani and Nireus, which is the 
commonest of the tribe. 
Page 226. “Shghtly modified form of C. Electra.’—The white 
variety of this, the only specimen that I possess of the species, is 
smaller than Helice, the corresponding pale variety of C. Edusa, 
and of a dusky white, Helice being more of a creamy tint. Also 
the orange spot in the lower wings of //elice is replaced by a white 
ditto in those of the variety of C. Electra. 
Page 227. Anthocharis Belemia.—Two specimens of this pretty 
little species were captured by me towards the end of March, between 
Jaffa and Latroon, probably on the plain of Sharon ; and a third in 
the second week of April in the outskirts of Beyrout. It resembles 
our A. Cardamines in the green markings of the lower wings on 
the under side, but has stripes, whereas Cardamines has spots of 
that colour. 
“The desert genus Jdmiais striking across from North-western 
