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as Pap. Nircus and its allies, with black wings spotted 
or banded with green. The Merope group, with its cream- 
coloured males, spotted with black and furnished with tails, 
is remarkable for having tailless females in South Africa, so 
much unlike their partners as to have been described as 
several distinct species ; whereas in Madagascar the females 
of this group can scarcely be distinguished either in form 
or colours from the males. Lastly, of the Hesperiidse, 
distributed all over the globe, thirteen of the genera contain 
species which are natives of Africa, three of them being 
peculiar to that region — namely Abantis, from Mozambique, 
Ceratrichia, Butler, from Western Africa, and Caprona, 
Walleneren. from Southern Africa. 
LEPIDOPTERA RHOPALOCERA. 
Family Papilionid^. 
Genus Papilio, Auct. 
1. (i) Papilio Demoleus, Linnaus. 
Papilio De/nodoais, Esper. 
Ranges from Western Tropical Africa to the Cape of Good Hope. 
Genus Callidryas, Boisduval ; E. Doubleday, Gen. D. Lep. p. 66. 
Catopsilia, W. F. Kirby, Syn. Cat. p. 481.1 
2. (i) Callidryas Swainsonii, Westw. 
Colias Pyrcne, Swainson, Zool. 111. vol. i. pi. 51. (Not of 
Linnaeus, which is an Indian species, belonging to the genus 
Thestias, Boisduval.) 
Callidryas Pyrefie, Butler, Lep. Exot. pi. 16, f. 8-10. 
Callidryas Florella, Boisduval ; Trimen, Rhopal. Afr. Austr. 
p. 68 ; but not of Fabricius nor Donovan, Nat. Repos. 
III. pi. 90. 
Many individuals of this species were taken at the Motloutsi River, 
varying in having the black spot of the disc of the fore wings, ancl 
the orange spots on the under side of the hind wings. A specimen 
from Guinea, received by Mr. Hope from Mr. Westcrmann of Copen- 
hagen as the Florella, Fabr., is identical with the South African spcci- 
1 Mr. W. F. Kirby has injudiciously sunk Boisduval's generic name for this group, con- 
taining 3;^ species, and adopted in its stead one of Hiibner's four sub-generic names (into 
which he had divided them), which only comprised four of the species. 
