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SOUTH-AFKICAK BUTTEEFLIES. 
a central, rather narrow, irregular, transverse bar, yellow in the $ and i 
white in the 
I found this variable butterfly numerous in Natal, but did not meet with 
the rufous-coloured specimens, which (from a of that coloration having | 
been figured and described by Hewitson, the founder of the species) must 
be regarded as the typical form. Although Mr. Hewitson 's specimens are j 
recorded from Natal, the rufous form seems to be uncommon there, as j 
Colonel Bowker has only forwarded one example (and that aberrant), and I 
have noticed but one other in collections formed in that Colony. Further 
southward, however, and as far as King William's Town, Colonel Bowker i 
frequently met with it, and the specimens above mentioned as reared by Mr. j 
Mansel Weale were natives of the last-named locality. In the Hewitson 
Collection there is a $ of this form labelled " Zambesi ; " and in the same 
Collection, and in the Hope Collection at Oxford, I noted wholly white- | 
banded $ s of the variety A. from the same region. 
This is quite a sylvan species, often flying quite m the woods, and some- 
times rather high among trees. I met with several, however, in gardens at 
Pietermaritzburg, Natal. It kept out, and in fair condition, from the ist 
February to the 8th April 1867. In very fresh specimens (as Mr. Mansel 
Weale has also noted in one of his letters) there is a submetallic blue gloss 
over the dark portions of the wings, and a slightly iridescent one over such | 
markings as are white. 
Localities of Planema Esebria. 
I. South Africa. ' 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — King William's Town {W. S. M. U Urban 
and J. H. BowJcer). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Butterworth (/. H. Bowker). Bashee Biver 
(/. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. \ 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Yerulam. Mouth of Tugela Kiver 
(/. H. Boivker). 
h. Upper Districts. — Pietermaritzburg. 1 
F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay (Lieut. -Col. H. Tower). I 
XL Other African Begions. 
A. South Tropical. j 
h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi {Rev. H. Rowley). — In Coll. Hope, 
Oxon. ; also in Coll. Hewitson. 
55. (2.) Planema Aganice, (Hewitson). 
$ Acroea Aganice, Hewits., Exot. Butt, i. pL 29, f. 6 (1852). 
$ Acrcea Agariice, Trim., Bhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 109, n. 69 (1862); and 
Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xxvi. p. 516, pi. 42, f. 2 [(^] (1869). 
Uxp. al, ($) 2 in. 7-1 1 lin. ; ($) 3 in. 3-7 lin. 
^ Brownisli-olach ; a transverse fale-yelloio har cibout middle of each 
iving. Fore-wing : bar rather beyond middle, commencing with two 
