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is in both wings more limited, and the subapical white spots of the fore-win^ 
are differently arranged. The under side is altogether different in the two 
species. 
Mr. Morrison most liberally allowed me to retain one of the two specimens 
above mentioned ; it is noted as captured on 4th November 1888. He informs 
me that he took what appeared to be a $ on the same date, not differing from 
the ^ except in its larger size and squarer wings. During the four seasons of 
Mr. Morrison's acquaintance with this brilliant species, he has not met with it 
before 15 th October or after 7 th November. 
Aphnoeus JVatalensis, p. 150. 
Fig. of Aphnceus Natalensis, Stand., Exot. Sclimett., i. pi. 95 (1887). 
Aphnceus Masilikazi} ^. 154. 
Additional locality in Zululand : — Etshowe {A. M. Goodrich and T. Vachell). 
Aphnceus Ella, ^. 154. 
Additional locality in Transvaal : — Eureka, near Barberton {C. F. Palmer). 
The single specimen ( $ ) received from Mr. Palmer is noted by him as 
having been captured about " teak " trees on a stony ridge'on 12th April 1888. 
Aphnceus Phanes, p. 156. 
Additional locality : — Transvaal : Eureka, near Barberton (C. F. Palmer). 
Aphnceus pseiido-zeritis, p. 160. 
^ Chloroselas Esmeralda, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885 [publ. 1886], 
p. 765, pi. xlvii. f. 4. 
Additional localities : — Natal : D'Urban (A. D. Millar). Eastern Interior 
of South Tropical Africa {F. C. Selous). Eastern Interior of North Tropical 
Africa: " Somaliland : Bunder Maria (Fer&wr?/)." — Butler. 
9 Wholly dark-hrown, ivithout any trace of blue ; orange spot at anal angle 
of hind-wing as in ^ . Under side as in ^ . (Specimen received from Mr. 
A. D. Millar, who took it near D'Urban in December 1887.) 
On careful comparison of two ^ s taken by Mr. Selous — which quite agree 
with Mr. Butler's description of C. Esmeralda — and of three very fine 
^ Mr. A. G. Butler {Ent. M. Mag., xx. pp. 250-251, 1884) has described two near allies of 
this species — one from Lake Nyassa {A. Nyassce) and the other from the Victoria Nyanza 
{A. Victorice). I have not seen the former, but a ? example of the latter has occurred in a 
collection recently formed in the Western Interior of South Tropical Africa by Mr. A. W. 
Eriksson, having been captured on the Omrora, " a river between Ovaquenyama and 
Ombuela," to the north of Ovampoland, in November 1887. It is very like Masilikazi ? on 
the upper side, but on the \mder side the fore- wing exhibits a very strongly flexuose 
(instead of straight) subapical fascia, the lower portion of which is connected with the median 
fascia by an oblique similarly-coloured mark lying between second and third median nervules 
— and in the hind-wing the long fascia angulated before anal angle is much more flexuose 
and distinctly composite of six unequal portions, while the short outer subapical fascia is 
distinctly composed of two very unequal portions, a small part on costa projecting beyond 
and almost apart from the rest of the marking. These and some minor distinctive markings 
noted by Mr, Butler fully warrant the separation of A, Victorice from A. Masilikazi. 
