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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
was probably Hottentota, Latr. As fresb reference to Latreille's brief 
description (of the upper side only) convinces me that he had before | 
him a specimen of the ochre-yellow suffused that form now properly | 
becomes typical of the species. 
Mr. Aurivillius {K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1882, xix. p. 125) has shown 
much ground for the opinion that Niso, Linn. — of which he reproduces two 
figures from Clerck's unpublished Rones'^ — is a Western $ of this species. 
But Linn^'s description is so absolutely inadequate for identification (treating 
the insect as probably only a variety of the European Nisoniades Tages), and 
Clerck's figures, except as regards the head and antennae, are so unlike the 
butterfly concerned, that I cannot feel sufficient certainty to warrant niy adopt- 
ing Mr. Aurivillius' conclusion. 
All the specimens I have taken about Cape Town, the few that have been 
met with in the neighbouring Western Districts, at Port Elizabeth, and near 
Grahamstown, are of the typical form. Moschler {Verh. K.K. Zool.-Bot. 
Gesellsch. Wien, 1883, p. 287) notes that at Baziya, in Kaffraria Proper, the 
^ sometimes exhibits the ochre-yellow ground-colour above ; and I have re- 
ceived an intermediate example from the Bashee River. 
This is an active and pugnacious little species, with habits quite like those 
of PampMla Sylvanus and F. Comma in Europe. It haunts by preference 
little hollows and kloofs in hillsides ; the ^ often taking possession of some 
tall flower in an open position, and darting at every insect which approaches 
his perch. It is not common near Cape Town, but I took it numerously at 
Knysna and in Natal, and commonly near Grahamstown. I have met with it 
at various stations in South Africa from the end of September to the end of 
March, and took it at D'Urban, Natal, on 3d August 1865. I captured the 
paired sexes twice at Knysna, and on one occasion at Mapumulo in Natal; 
and Colonel Bowker sent me a pair taken in copidd at King William's Town. 
Mr. W. S. M. D'Urban noted the butterfly as abundant in British Kaffraria, 
occurring from August to May. 
I noted a in a collection made on the Gold Coast in 1873 by Lieutenant 
Bourke, R.N. 
Localities of Pamphila Hottentota. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Vogel Vley, Tulbagh District. 
Palmiet River, Caledon District (T. D. Butler). Knysna — 
[Var. A.]. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Port Elizabeth. Uitenhage {S. D. Bairstoio). 
Grahamstown. King William's Town (/. H. Bowker). Hoije 
Town H. Boivker). 
c. Orange Free State. — Special locality not noted [C. Hart). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Bashee River (/. H. Boivker) — \_Var. A. and 
intermed,]. Heads of St. John's River (J. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban, Verulam, and Mapumulo — [Var. A.]. 
Pinetown (/. H. Boivker)— [Var. A.]. 
h. Upper Districts. — Maritzburg and Greytown — [ Var. A.]. Biggars- 
berg and Rorke's Drift (/. H. Boivker) ~[Var. A.]. Estcourt 
{J. M. Hutchinson). 
1 Mr. Aurivillius wrote to me in 1881, that although the types of Pap. Spio and Pap. 
Niso, L., were unfortunately lost, he felt "quite certain that these" (Clerck's) "figures are 
delineated after the true types of Linne." 
