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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {Ty;p. and Var. A.) Victoria Country 
{Typ.) 
h. Upper Districts. — Greytown {Typ.) Estcourt (/. M. Hutchinson. 
-Typ.) 
F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {Colonel II. Tower. — Var. A.) Napoleon 
Valley (/. H. Bowker.—Typ.) 
K. Transvaal. — Potchefstroom District {T. Ayres. — Typ.) Marico 
River {F. G. Selous.—Typ. and Var. A.) 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Damaraland {II. HutcMnsoii, J. A. Bell, and 
IF. Q. Palgrave. — Typ.) "Angola (/. /. Monteiro)." — Druce. 
Congo {Coll. Brit. Mus.) Chinchoxo (Falkenstein)." — Dewitz. 
h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi River {Rev. H. Rowley). " Tette 
(Peifers)."— Hopffer. " Tchouacka {Raffray)." — Oberthiir. 
"Mombas and Lake Jipe (0. Kersten).^' — Gerstacker. 
bi. Interior. — Kama's Country, near Bamangwato {H. Barber. — Typ.) 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — " Gaboon." — Oberthiir. Cape Coast Castle (/. 
M. Pask. — Far. A.) Sierra Leone {Col. Brit. Mus.) " Casa- 
manza." — Feisthamel. *' Senegal." — Drury. 
b. Eastern Coast. — " Somauliland." — Felder. "Samara: Tajurrah 
{J. K. Lord)." — H. Walker. Abyssinia: " Schoa {Antinori)."— 
Oberthur; " Harkeko (/. K. Lord).''—Y. Walker. "Atbara." 
— A. G. Butler. " Nubia. "^Hopffer. 
IV. Asia. 
A. Southern Region. — " Arabia." — Oberthur and Hopffer. India 
(North India) : E. Ind. Mus. Madras : Brit. Mus. Ceylon {E. 
L. Layard). 
Genus NEPTIS. 
Neptis, Fab., " Syst. Gloss.— Illiger's Mag., vi. p. 282 (1807);" Westw., 
Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 270 (1850). 
Neptis and Atliyma, Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. pp. 145, 148 (1862). 
Imago. — Head broad, moderately hairy above and in front ; eyes 
large, very prominent, smooth ; palpi short, slender, acute, not rising 
above level of forehead, scaly, clothed beneath with rather long but not 
dense hair, and above with a little short hair, — second joint rather short, 
— terminal joint long, broad at base, but ending in a very attenuated 
and acute point ; antennm rather short, with a gradually-formed elongate 
but rather thick club, slightly flattened and hollowed inferiorly. 
Thorax about as broad as head, rather short and weak, slightly 
hairy anteriorly, posteriorly, and inferiorly. Fore-wings: elongate, 
rather truncate ; costa but slightly arched ; apex more or less rounded ; 
hind-margin very slightly sinuated, sometimes a little emarginate about 
middle ; posterior angle marked ; inner margin rather convex near base, 
but emarginate in middle; costal nervure very short, ending on costa 
before middle ; first subcostal nervule emitted considerably, second one 
slightly, before extremity of discoidal cell in most species, but occa- 
sionally the latter nervule originates at a little distance bej^ond cell ; 
