1897.] BUTTEBFLIES COLLECTED IN NATAL. 837 



same —the Karkloof being if anything rather more humid. I 

 would also call your attention to the dry-season examples of 

 A. induna, A. caldarena, and A. asema." 



I shall now proceed to give a list of the Butterflies included in 

 these three consignments, with the dates of their capture and 

 other notes of interest, either taken from the envelopes in which 

 they were forwarded or from Mr. Marshall's letters. The complete 

 references to original descriptions and figures in Mr. Trimen's 

 valuable work ' The Butterflies of South Africa ' render it unneces- 

 sary, in most cases,' to repeat them in the present paper. 



1. AmAUBIS ECHEIllA, KoU. 



One typical specimen and four of the prevalent Natal form 

 A. alhimaculata. Malvern, 800 feet, 11th to 16th August '. 



2. LiMNAS CHEYSIPPUS, Linn. 



$ $ Malvern, 10th and 15th August ; Estcourt, 4000 feet, 28th 

 September, J cT 29th September, 13th October ; Tugela E.iver, 

 2500 feet, 27th October, $ 5th November, 1896. 



3. Samanta peespicua, Trimen. 



Malvern, 10th August, 1896 (dry-season form). 



I'he single example forw arded does not bear out Mr. Marshall's 

 view that S. simonsi is the dry form, for it does not differ on the 

 upperside from the typical wet-season form ; Mr. Marshall, how- 

 ever, remarks : — " This specimen is an example of the dry form 

 which prevails along the S.E. coast, the dry form of the interior 

 plateaux being, as 1 have told you, your S. simonsi. I have seen 

 dry specimens from the Shire River v\hic-h are inseparable from 

 the latter on the underside, but retain the brown upperside as in 

 the southern form." 



This is all very well, and I will not dispute the probable identity 

 of the two species ; but the fact that some dry-season examples of 

 iS^. 2)^rsj>icua nearly resemble S. simonsi on the underside does not 

 explain the fact that the latter has the upper surface bright ochre- 

 yellow as in S. eliasis of Western Africa (which is undoubtedly a 

 wet-season form !). 



4. Ypthima doleta. 



Ypthima doleta, Kirbv, Proc. Eoy. Dubl. Soc. (2) ii. p. 336 

 (1880). 



Ypthima asterope, Trimen (not Klug), South African Butterflies, 

 i. p. 66 (1887). 



Estcourt, 4000 feet, 1st and 6th September ; Tugela River near 

 Weenen, 2500 feet, 5th and 9th November, 1896. 



Very great confusion has been made with respect to Y. asterope 

 by many Lepidopterists. It is an insect strictly confined to 

 Arabia ; for, in my opinion, the small examples from Somaliland 



' Mr. Marshall observes that about 6 per cent, of the specimens he took were 

 typical ; the rest were A. albimacidata. 



