54 ME. R. TR.IMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, 



95. loLAUS BOWKERi, Trim. 



lolaus boivJceri, Trim. loc. cit. p. 176 (1864). 

 Two examples from Christmas Pass and three from the Mineni 

 Valley. 



96. loLAtrs aphnjEOIdes, Trim. 



lolaus aphnaoides. Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 110; 

 Hewits. 111. D. Lep., Suppl. pi. iv a. figs. 50, 51 (1878). 



One male captured at Christmas Pass on 22nd Pebruary. Of 

 this very rare though somewhat widely distributed species I have 

 seen only seven examples, viz. : the types (male and female) taken 

 near Graham stown, Cape Colony ; a male from the Trans-Keian 

 territory ; a female from Panda-ma-Tenka, near the Victoria Falls 

 of the Zambesi ; two females from Lake Nyassa (Hewitson 

 Collection); and the male now under noticed Mr. Selous's 

 example was taken at the edge of a ravine ; it settled repeatedly 

 on the same bush. 



Genus Mteis-a, Pabr. 



97. Mteina ficedula. Trim. 



Myrinafcedula, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 324. 

 Two females from Christmas Pass, agreeing with ordinary 

 South-African specimens. 



Genus Apinf^us, Hiibn. 



98. ApHNiEUS masilikazi (Walleugr.). 



Spindasis masilikazi, Wallengr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Haudl. 1857 — 

 Lep. Ehop. Caffr. p. 45. 



Three specimens (2 males and a female) from the Mineni Valley, 

 and three (females) from near Vunduzi Biver. These were taken 

 on blue flowers at the side of the road. 



99. Aphnjjus homeyeri, Dewitz. 



Aphnceus homeyeri, Dewitz, Deutsch. ent. Zeitschr. xxx. p. 429, 

 pi. ii. figs, o, 5 a, 5 6, 5 c (1887); Trim. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 

 1891, p. 88. n. 70. 



A female from Sikuva Eiver (March 4th), and two males and 



^ A description with very carefully executed coloured figures of a very closely 

 allied form (found near Durban, Natal, in March 1893) have been sent me by 

 Mr. A. E. Hunt. In this example the orange-yellow stripes and borders of the 

 underside are reduced to almost linear form, the basal stripe indeed being 

 wanting except for its lower inner-marginal portion in the hind wing, and the 

 subbasal one represented by a discocellular short streak in each wing. The 

 common submarginal series of black spots, and the hind-marginal black spots 

 of the hind wing, are quite as in /. aphnaoidcs ; but the costa of the fore wing 

 has an orange linear edging, and the inner margin of the hind wing bears a 

 small subbasal orange spot. It seems possible that this may prove to be a 

 seasonal variation of/. aphiKBoidcs, but at present I am inclined to regard it as 

 a sport of that species. 



