2o6 SOUTH- AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
above spiracular line ; head black ; legs, pro-legs, and spines as in 
brown form. 
Described from drawings by Mrs. Barber of specimens found near 
Grabamstown. Mrs. Barber wrote that the black-and-white second 
form was very much rarer than the other, and fed lower down among 
the branches of its food-plant, and that it always produced the while 
the commoner brownish form, she believed, produced 6 s only. 
I feel some uncertainty about this case, because at the time the 
drawings were made I had in error, in my work on South- African 
BuUcrflics, treated the $ E. Scli<micia^ mihi, as that of Hippomene ; 
and it seems possible that the differing larvge might really be tliose of 
two distinct species. It is true that Sehceneia has not hitherto, to my 
knowledge, been met with near Graham stown, but it has occurred at 
the Kowie River-mouth, a distance of under thirty miles. 
Pupa. — Ochreous-yellow ; a lateral ferruginous brown streak along 
abdomen from pedicel almost to wing-covers. 
Described from a dead specimen forwarded by Mrs. Barber. 
This is an active, rapidly-flying insect, having quite the habits of Pyrameis 
Cardui and its congeners. It is fond of settling on flowers in gardens, prefer- 
ring those of Lantana. The male is often to be seen basking on a twig or leaf, 
especially in open places on the outskirts of a wood, and darting off to pursue 
the female or a rival of his own sex, only to return to his perch almost imme- 
diately. At Highlands, near Grahamstown, I took, on i5tli February 1870, a 
female laying its eggs on a nettle ; and Mrs. Barber, who had reared the larvae, 
informed me that this plant {Urtica mitis) was in that locality the habitual 
food-plant of the species. The butterfly is on the wing from October to April. 
It seems to be nowhere abundant, but commoner in some seasons than in 
others. 
Localities of Eurcma Hiirpomene. 
1. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Knysna {Miss Weyitivorth). 
h. Eastern Districts.- — Port Elizabeth {J. H. Bowlxer\ Grahams- 
town. Bedford {J. P. M. Weale). King William's Town {W. 
S. M. D'Urhan). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. 
Butterworth and Bashee River (/. //. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban (/. H. Boivker). Mapumulo. 
h. Upper Districts. — Pietermaritzburg {Miss Colenso). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
hh Madagascar. — " Fianarantsoa {Rev. W. Deans Cowan).^^ — A. G. 
Butler. 
B. North Tropical 
h. Eastern Coast. — " Abyssinia : Shoa {Antinori)" — Oberthiir. 
