I04 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
have above described, which has a very wide Tropical -African range, 
extending northward to the White Nile on the east and to Senegal on 
the west. 
I have examined the types of Jalone and Imperator, Butl., in the 
British Museum, with the result that I do not consider them separable 
as species, or even as marked varieties from lone. The former is a 
^ from the White Nile, with pinkish-tinged under side, and with the 
neuration and other black markings of the upper side (especially the 
macular terminations of the hind-wing nervules) less strongly marked 
than in Reiche's figures (op. cit.) of the Abyssinian Imperator, on 
the other hand, is a ^ from Senegal, rather more strongly marked 
than Reiche's particularly as regards the dusky discal ray of the 
under side of the hind-wings ; and with it are associated (September 
1886) — I think rightly — two ^ s and two deeply yellow- tinged $s 
from Mamboio in Eastern Africa, and a very slightly yellow-tinged $ 
from Madagascar. These two continental ^ s have a very brilliant 
appearance from their sulphur-yellow ground-colour and crimson- 
glossed red apical patch, and have the black markings strongly 
developed, while the Malagasy ^ more resembles the ordinary pattern 
of lone with orange-red apex. 
Hopffer's $ lone {fig. op. cit.) agrees more closely with Butler's 
Imperator than with Jalone, but has the dusky discal ray of the hind- 
wings only feebly represented by four faint brownish marks. Reiche's 
Abyssinian $ and Hopffer's Mozambique ^ agree very nearly, the main 
difference being that the discal ray just mentioned is better marked in 
the former. In four Transvaal $ s the ray in question is even more 
obsolescent than in Hopffer's figure. As regards the ^, Reiche's and 
Hopffer's figures agree in the feeble development (in both forms of the 
sex) of the dusky clouding over the basal areas ; but on the under side 
Reiche's figures exhibit a deeper and w^armer colouring, the $ with red 
apex being pale creamy-ochreous, and that with black apex yellow, 
and both having the macular discal rays broad and diffused. In these 
features of the under side Reiche's figures approach the Natalian 
Speciosus, Wallengr. 
The $ s (red-tipped) that I have seen from the Transvaal and 
Delagoa Bay, while heavily clouded on the upper side, have the under 
side even paler and with fainter markings than Hopffer's figures. The 
$ accompanying the Delagoan $ is, like Butler's Jalone, pinkish-tinted 
on the under side. 
The V %ricty A. of lone above described is only known to me by a 
few examples from Natal, viz., one in the Hewitson collection (in 
1867), another taken by the late Mr. M'Ken in 1869, and three 
captured by Colonel Bowker in December 1884. Their slightly 
smaller size and more restricted apical violet approximate them to 
the ^ Speciosus inhabiting the same district ; but the black neuration 
of the almost pure-white under side shows some resemblance to Phlegyas, 
