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11. other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast.— " Angola [Hewitson Coll.]."— W. F. Kirby. 
h. Eastern Coast. — " Querimba (Peters).'' — Hopffer. 
B. North Tropical. 
b. Eastern Coast. — " Massowah {Raffray).'' — Oberthlir. 
hi. Eastern Interior. — Abyssinia : " Shoa (Antinori)." — Oberthiir. 
297. (3.) Eronia Buquetii, (Boisduval). 
^ CalUdryas Buquetii, BoiscL, Sp. Gen. Lep., i. p. 607, n. i (1836). 
Eronia Buquetii., Boisd., App. Voy. de Deleg. Afr. Aust., p. 588 (1847). 
$ ? Eronia Buquetii, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 66, n. 44 (1862). 
Eronia Buquetii, HopfF., Peters' Reise Mossamb., Ins., p. 363 (1862). 
Exp. aL, ($) 2 ill. 2^-6 lin. ; (?) 2 in. 2-6^ Im. 
^ Greenish-ivliite ; fore-wing loith an apical-hindmarginal fuscous 
herder, varying in development from an almost linear edging to a hand 
very broad cot apex, and tapering gradually to posterior angle. Fore- 
wing : costa with a very fine linear fuscous edging ; costal margin nar- 
rowly irrorated with reddish-brown and fuscous, — the irroration in 
specimens with very reduced apical-hindmarginal edging not extend- 
ing beyond middle ; inner edge of apical-hindmarginal border (of 
whatever width), from its origin on costa beyond middle to its ter- 
mination on hind-margin or at posterior angle, dentated on nervules and 
excavated between them ; in its most reduced condition this border 
is better expressed on costa than on hind-margin, where it is very 
attenuated and scarcely extends beyond third median nervule. Hind- 
loing : without markings. Under side. — Hind-iuing and moderate- 
sized apical space of fore-iuing dull greenish or yellowish-ivliite (some- 
times with a faint tinge of oehreous) shot ivith a pale hluish-violaceous 
gloss, and more or less indistinctly irrorated and partly striolated with 
Irownish-grey ; on hind-7narginal edge a series of minute nervidar black 
spots, scarcely perceptible in fore-wing. Rind-wing : costa tinged with 
pale-green on basal lobe ; at extremity of discoidal cell a well-marked 
elongate-ovate ferruginous-brown whitish-centred spot, bounded ex- 
ternally by an ill-defined small whitish mark ; sometimes a faint 
indication of a discal series of very small brownish-grey spots. 
$ Like $, but rather less greenish in tint. Undek side. — Hind- 
wing and apex of fore-wing usually deeper and more yellowish in tint ; 
terminal disco-cellular spot rather larger and rounder, with a better 
developed whitish centre. 
Hopffer (op. cit.) has noted three varieties of this butterfly, in 
addition to the conspicuously black-bordered type-form from the West 
Coast of North Tropical Africa, viz., Yar. ^, Arahica, Var. y, Gapensis, 
and Var. ^, Mossambicensis, respectively inhabiting the regions indi- 
cated; and Mr. Butler (Proc. Zool. Boc. Lond., 1884, p. 493) observes 
that these local forms are permanent and should be kept distinct. Were 
the Cape Colony only in question here, I should be disposed to treat 
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