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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
II. Other African Regions. i 
A. South Tropical. ! 
a. Western Coast. — Damaraland {C. J. Andersson and /. A.\BelT), 
" Angola (Po^^e)."— Dewitz. Congo (Coll. Brit. Mus.) " Chin- 
choxo, Loango {Falkenstein)^ — Dewitz. 
h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi {Rev. H. Rowley). — Coll. Hope Mus. 
Oxon. " Querimba." — Hopffer. 
hh. Madagascar ( F. fZe jRokY^arr^). "Bourbon." — Boisduval. Mauri- I 
tins. ''Rodriguez (G. Gulliver)."— A. G. Butler. 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Ashanti and Sierra Leone (Coll. Brit. Mus.) ; 
t. Eastern Coast. — "Shoa, Abyssinia {A7itinori)." — Oberthiir. | 
IV. Asia. 
A. Southern Region. — India (Nepaul, Silhet, Ceylon : — Coll. Brit. ; 
Mus. ; Scinde : — " Kurrachee," C. Swinhoe ; Bengal : — Boisduval I 
and Eelder) ; Burmah (Moulmein :— Coll. Brit. Mus.) " China."— 
Drury and Boisduval. Philippine Islands (Manilla : Lorqum). 
B. Malayan Archipelago. — Java, Borneo, Celebes, and Ceram (Coll. 
Brit. Mus.) 
V. Australia. — Queensland (Brisbane : W. H. Mislcin). 
VI. Oceania. — "Otaheite." — Eabricius and Eelder. 
30. (2.) Melanitis diversa, (Butler). 
Gnojphodes Parmeno^ Trim. 
Butl. 
part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 190, n. 107 (1866). 
part], Cat. Satyr. Coll. Brit. Mus., p. 6 (1868). 
„ diversa, Butl., Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (5), v. p. 333 (1880). 
Exp. al., 2 in. 11 lin. — 3 in. 3 lin. 
Dull-brown, greyish-tinged for the greater part, hut darker externally 
(especially in fore-wing) ; a curved ochre-yellow transverse har crossing 
fore-iving in its darker outer portion. Fore-wing : costa speckled with 
ochre-yellow along its edge ; curved bar commencing rather broadly 
on costa beyond middle, and narrowing to a point at posterior angle : 
its inner edge distinct, with three inter-nervular excavations, its outer 
edge ill-defined below second radial, whence the bar is more or less one 
with a narrow hind-marginal bordering of ochre freckled with short 
blackish lines and atoms. Hind-wing : a very narrow yellow-ochreous 
edging, freckled with blackish throughout, but more thickly so in its 
inferior portion, from costa beyond middle to anal angle ; immediately 
before it, between third median nervule and anal angle, a somewhat 
indistinct clouding of pale-grey thickly hatched with short black lines. 
Cilia of fore-wing brown mixed with whitish; of hind-wing whitish 
with very thin nervular brown interruptions. Under side. — Paler- 
hroiun ; apical area of fore-wing and costal horder of hind-iuing pale 
cream-colour ; the whole surface irregularly hatched and irrorated with 
dark-brown short lines and atoms, more conspicuous on the creamy 
parts. Fore-iuing : costa transversely marked with irregular creamy 
lines uniting into four indistinct cellular fascia ; creamy apical area 
