1897.] ox BTJTrERFLIES COLLECTED IX XATAL. 835 



M'iNxosH, AV. C. 1890. " St. Andrews Mar. Lab. Eeport, No. xi." 



Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. v. pp. 296-306. 

 Plessis, G. DU. 1878. ^'^ lEtude suv \& C'osmetira salinarum ." Bull. 



Soc. A'audoise So. Nat. ser. 2, vol. xvi. pp. 38-45, pi. ii. 



(Lausanne.) Transl. by Dallas in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, 



vol. iii. pp. 385-389. 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate XLVIII. 



Fig. 1. Cyi(Bandra areolata (sp. ?), an early stage, X 30 ; p. 817. Plymouth, 



lb93. 

 Eig. 1 a. Diagram of the margin of the umbrella. 

 Fig. 2. Cytisandra areolata, SiA\A\., X 10; p. 818. Port Erin, 1894. 

 Fig. '6. Bipleurosoma hemispharicum, an intermediate stage, X 10 ; p. 826. 



Valencia. 1896. 

 Fig. 3 a. Diagram of the margin of the umbrella. 



Plate XLIX. 



Fig. 1. Aglantha rosea, adult, X 5 ; p. 833. Valencia, 1895. 

 Fig. 1 a. Diagram of the margin of the umbrella. 

 Fig. 1 6. A portion of the margin between two radial canals. 

 Fig. 2. Dipurena halterata, adult ^J, x 4; p. 81tJ. Valencia, 1896. 

 Fig. 2 a. Terminal bulb of a tentacle expanded. 

 Fig. 2 b. Terminal bulb of a tentacle contracted. 

 Fie. 3. A Leptomedusa (gen. ? sp. ?), x 35 ; p. 832. Valencia, 1896. 

 Fig. 3 a. Diagram of the margin of the umbrella. 



Fig. 4. Laodice calcarata (sp. ?), a portion of the margin of the umbrella, 

 enlarged, p. 823. Valencia, 1896. 



2. On three consignments of Butterflies collected in Natal 

 in 1896 and 1897 by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall, F.Z.S. 

 By Arthur G. Butler, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., Senior 

 Assistant-Keeper, Zoological Dejjartmeut, British 

 Museum, Natural History. 



[Eeceived July 26, 1897.] 

 (Plate L.) 



Since his return to South Africa, Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall has 

 most liberally fulfilled a promise which he made me when in 

 England to collect Lepidoptera for the Museum : indeed, so rapidly 

 has one consignment followed another that it has been impossible 

 to mount the specimens so fast as received. The notes which 

 accompany many of the species are of considerable interest to 

 Lepidopterists generally : therefore, as the first three consignments, 

 consisting of 667 examples, are now all set, I think it best to deal 

 at once with these, leaving a further consignment just received for 

 a supplementary paper. 



Mr. Marshall is an admirable and indefatigable collector, and 

 knows the South-African Butterflies so well that he has been able 

 to add many desiderata to the National Collection, some of them 



