234. W. F. KIRBY, F.E.S. 
Most of these are orange-tips, but the Indian Danaé has crimson 
patches, and the Natal Jone purple ditto in the extremity of the 
fore wings. 
As examples of etalk Lycenide resembling our own British 
kinds in general appearance, 
Lycena hintza, Natal. 
Pe palemon, Cape. 
as acca, Kuysua River, 
may be mentioned among the African species in my collection. 
And also Beticus, which, to my certain knowledge, has a very 
wide distribution over Europe, Asia, and Africa. I have purchased 
specimens of this insect from India, and taken it myself in Egypt 
and Nubia. It was not known in England even as a summer 
visitant till about thirty years since. 
Page 229.—Small species of Chrysophanus, all more or less nearly 
allied to C. Phleas, are numerous in South Africa. For instance, 
I possess : 
| Orus, 
Zeritis ans; Seer INGORE: 
Lara, 
| Harpaa, | 
5 Alpheus, ... South Africa. 
And an unnamed species from Kaffraria. 
Mr. Kirby records that Danais Chrysippus is found all over 
Africa. I can testify to its abundance in and about Cairo in the 
first half of December, when it frequents the poinsettias, zinnias, 
&c., in the palace grounds, public gardens, &c. It is probably the 
most widely distributed of all the Danaide, its range extending 
even to Australia. 
Page 230. Urania Rhipheus.—This ee handsome Mada- 
gascar species and a closely allied kind on the opposite coast of Hast 
Africa, are by far the most beautiful of all the Uraniide. Other 
species of this tribe occur in the New World; for example, the 
Urania Sloana of the West Indies, and the Urania Leilus of South 
America. Mr. Bates records that during his stay at Caripi on the 
southern shore of the Para River, the Urania Leilus, a strange 
and beautifully-tailed and gilded moth, whose habits are those of a 
butterfly, commenced to fly in flocks over the tree tops. It was the 
remembrance of this fact that gave rise to an idea for the mounting 
of seventeen specimens of Urania Rhipheus, which I endeavoured 
to carry outas nearly as possible to resemble its natural surroundings. 
