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the species just named possessing from five to seven, but more com- 
monly six or seven on the upper side, and invariably seven on the 
under side.'^ 
As noted by me in the Transactions of the Entomological Society for 1868, 
I discovered this striking form on the eastern border of Natal in 1867. Early 
in March I found it abundantly in the high lying woods at Tunjunibili, over- 
looking the Tugela Eiver. The pure white spots of the fore-wings are very 
conspicuous in flight, and give the butterfly a very diff'erent aspect from that 
of its very close ally, Dendroj)Uilus. The habits of Inclosa are quite like those 
of Dendrophilus, and I noticed little companies of from six to ten settled head 
downwards on the trunks or low branches of trees, especially towards sunset. 
Ko $ s occurred among the individuals I took ; but in 1879 a Transvaal speci- 
men of that sex was received from Mr. T. Ayres and others quite recently 
(April and May 1884) from near Pinetown, Natal, where they were captured 
by Colonel Bowker. The last-named gentleman informs me that he secured 
several fine examples, including one $ , by sugaring the stump of a tree in a 
spot where he had noticed the species ; and also tliat he has observed specimens 
frequenting human excreta and fallen fruit. Colonel Bowker forwarded to me 
a dried specimen of the plant on which he believes Indosa to feed. It is one 
of the Acanthacece, and has been kindly determined by Mr. P. MacOwan as 
Hijpoestes aristata. 
Localities of Lethe Indosa. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — Pinetown {J. II. Boivker). Intzutze River. 
h. Upper Districts. — Tunjumbili (Port Buckingham). Karkloof 
(/. H. Bowker). 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). 
Genus MENERIS. 
Meneris, "Westwood, Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii, p. 296 (1850). 
Imago. — Head of moderate size, densely hairy ; eyes large, clothed 
with short hair ; pal^n of moderate length, ascendant, compressed 
laterally, clothed above and on the sides with a short velvety pile, 
densely hairy beneath, slightly convergent, — the terminal joint very 
small and distinct, short, slender, smooth ; antennm long and rather 
thick, with the club elongate, gradually formed, cylindrical, outwardly 
curved and pointed at the tip. 
Thorax rather robust, elongate-ovate, densely hairy on the back. 
Colonel Bowker, early in February 1 886, found an interesting small variety of Indosa at 
Karkloof, some twenty-two miles north-west of Maritzburg, at an elevation of about 5000 
feet. The two ^s sent to me measure respectively only 2 in. 6 lin. and 2 in. 7 lin. across 
the wings, while the 9 barely expands 3 in. Both sexes, moreover, show a slight approach 
to L. dendrophilus in a slight ochre-yellowish suffusion of the lower spots of the discal row in 
the fore-wings. Colonel Bowker mentioned that this variety was numerous about rotten fruit 
in the garden of a farmer, and that the more active S s flew round in a certain line, and all 
ended by flying into the base of an old quince hedge, where he suspected there must have 
been the pupa of a $ . 
