SOUTH-AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
ing only the tliin part between first subcostal and radial nervales, and 
occasionally complete but macular. 
Aberration. — J Apical patch not orange, hut sericeous pinJcish- 
grey, with a thin line of dnll-orange along its inner edge, and also on 
costa and third subcostal nervule ; inner black spot of apical patch very 
small ; no longitudinal blackish stripes ; under- side tint creamy, rather 
densely irrorated with dark-grey. 
Hob. — Estcourt, Natal {J. 31. Hutchinson). 
I think that there can be no doubt, on carefully comparing the 
descriptions given by Boisduval, of the species-identity of his Antigone 
and Delphine, the former being a West- African with the longitudinal 
dark stripes very faintly marked and the under side of the hind-wings 
whitish, and the latter the more prevalent South- African $ and ^, with 
reddish-creamy under side of hind-wings, — the $ without, the $ some- 
times with, the longitudinal dark stripes. 
I have been enabled to identify the Eucharis $ of Wallengren with 
this species by means of a coloured drawing of the type-specimen 
kindly obtained for me by Mr. Chr. Aurivillius. It is a ^ in which 
all the blackish markings of the upper side are very small and attenu- 
ated, but there exists an extremely faint inner-marginal spot indicating 
the termination of the longitudinal stripe of the fore-wings, while the 
under side of the hind-wings is creamy with partial dark irroration and 
a costal spot indicating the commencement of the discal ray. I possess 
an almost identically marked $ from Estcourt in Natal, only wanting 
the inner-marginal spot in the fore-wings. 
The most painstaking examination — in 1 8 8 I , and renewed in 
1 8 86 — of the types of Mr. Butler's six species above named has 
brought me to the conclusion that they are really inseparable from 
each other and from Antigone, Boisd., being founded on individual 
variations prevailing in both sexes in respect alike of size, marking, 
and colouring. As regards the $ s, there is a regular gradation from 
Suhfumosus, which has no trace of dark longitudinal stripes, through 
Flaminia, Lycoris, and Friga, to Galathinus, in which those markings 
are well developed ; and Lyoeus, though larger and with fainter stripes, 
is quite of the Galathinus character. The specimens of $ s respectively 
assigned to the ^ s of this series cannot be clearly discriminated, vary- 
ing too much to be with any consistency grouped in any order corre- 
sponding with that of the $ s. All the specimens on which these six 
presumed species are founded were collected by the late Mr. E. 0. 
Buxton in Swaziland. 
The specimens in which the blackish stripes are best developed 
certainly exhibit close resemblance to Fhlegetonia,' Boisd., and it seems 
not improbable that eventually the latter will be ascertained to be 
conspecific with the series included under Antigone. 
I have only once met with this widely-distributed Teracolus, which appears 
to be less numerous than PJdegetonia in the eastern tracts of South Africa, 
