264 SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
number and varying shades (creamy, yellow -oclireous, ferruginous, 
black-and-white) of its transverse bands and chains of spots. 
As will be seen below, I have not been able to separate specifically 
more than one of the many forms of H. Ilithyict (Drury) which have 
been named by different authors, viz., the Malagasy H. Anvatam^ 
Boisd. ; but the form most prevalent in South-Eastern Africa (to 
which Wallengren's name Achelo'ia is given), while it follows the type- 
form in the extreme variability of its under-side colouring, is a suf- 
ficiently recognisable variety. 
H. Ilitliyia is a handsome and conspicuous insect on the wing ; it 
shows much more activity than Eurytela Hiarhas, and though more 
frequent about woods, is often to be found in open ground. It ranges 
over the whole of Africa, and as far eastward as India and Ceylon, its 
near ally, H. Anvatara, appearing to replace it in Madagascar and 
the Comoro Islands. 
The pupa is in form not unlike that of the allied genus Ergolis, 
Boisd., judging from the figure given by Horsfield and Moore {Cat, 
Lejp. Ins. H.E.I.C. Museum^ 1857, pi. vi. f 6a) of the chrysalis of the 
Javan E. Goryta (Cram.) 
86. (1.) Hjrpanis Ilithyia, (Drury). 
Plate Y. fig. 4 (Yar. A. $ ). 
S Pajnlio Ilithyia, Drur., III. Nat. Hist., ii. pi. xvii. ff. i, 2 (1773). 
^ Papilio Folinice, Cram., Pap. Exot., iv. t. ccclxxv. ff. g, h (1782). 
BiUis Ilithyia, Godt. [part], Enc. Meth., ix. p. 327, n. 7 (18 19). 
Hypanis Polinice, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep., i. pi. ix. f. 6 (1836). 
Hyimnis Cora, Feisth., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 1850, p. 249, n. 2. 
Hypanis Ilitliyia, Hopff. [part], Peters' Reise nach Mossamb., Ins., p. 396 
(1862). 
Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 214, n. 124 (1866); 
and Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1870), p. 359. 
Byhlia Ilithyia, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, p. 45, pi. 23, ff. 3, 3a (188 1). 
Yar. a. Achelo'ia, AYallengr. 
Papilio Ilythia, Cram., Pap. Exot., iii. t. 213, ff. a, b ( $ ), and t. 214, ff. 
c, D (^), (1782). 
Bihlis Ilithyia, Godt. [part], Enc. Meth., ix. p. 327, n. 7 (18 19). 
Hypanis Ilithyia, Doubl., Gen. Diurn. Lep., p. 411, pi. 68, f. i (1851). 
Hypanis Ilithya, Wallgrn., K. Sv. Yet.-Ak. Handl., Lep. Rhop. Caffr., 
p. 29 n. I (1857). 
Hypanis Acheloia,V( oWgvw., op. cit., p. 29, n. 2 (1857). 
Hypanis Ilithyia, Hopff. [part], Peters' Reise nach Mossamb., Ins., p. 396 
(1862). 
„ „ Trim, [part], Rhop. Afr. Aust., ii. p. 214, n. 124 (1866). 
Exp. al., I in. 8 J lin. — 2 in. 3 lin. 
$ Warm fiilvous-oclireous, laith black hands and other markings. 
Fore-wing : along costa, from base to a little distance before apex, a 
moderately broad band, emitting downward three rather curved trans- 
verse disco-cellular striae, — a wider, more oblique, subangulated bar 
