NYMPHALIN^. 
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Cramer's name of Meleagris so well indicates the guinea-fowl style 
of colouring of Dmdalus tliat it could be wished the Fabrician title had 
not priority. The butterfly has a very wide distribution over the Tro- 
pical parts of Africa, but is seldom met with in South Africa proper. 
From the accounts of collectors who have observed its habits, it appears 
to be an active insect, frequenting open spots as well as woods, and 
often settling on the ground. 
101. (1.) Hamanumida Daedalus, (Fabricius), 
Papilio Dcedalus^ Fab., Syst. Ent., p. 482, n. 174 (1775). 
Papilio Melantha^ Fab, op. cit.^ p. 513, n. 297. 
Papilio Meleagris^ Cram., Pap. Exot., i. t. Ixvi. ff. a, b (1779). 
„ Dru., 111. Nat. Hist., iii. pi. xxvii. ff. 3, 4 (1782). 
„ „ Fab., Ent. Syst., iii. i, p. 128, n. 393 (1793). 
Nyniphalis Meleagris and N. DcGdalus, Godt., Enc. Meth., ix. pp. 387-388, 
nn. 130-131 (1819), 
Vanessa {Adolias) Meleagris, var., Reiche, in Ferr. and Gal. Voy. en Abyss., 
Ent., p. 468, pi. 32, ff. 3, 4 (1849). 
Aterica Meleagris, Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lep,, iii. p. 287 (1850). 
Trim., Rhop. Afr. Aust., i. p. 157, n. 93 (1862). 
Exp. al.^ 2 in. 2 lin — 2 in. 7 lin. 
^oft hroivmsli-grcij^ luitli transverse rows of wJdtc hlach-edgcd sp)ots. 
Fore-wing : in discoidal cell two irregular, zigzag, transverse black 
lines, each more or less conspicuously bordered with white, and enclos- 
ing a luJiite dot at their commencement ; closing cell is a similar 
streak, but annular, and shaped like the figure 8 ; beyond cell, three 
transverse rows of white spots commence on costa, — first row consider- 
ably sinuate, from costa beyond middle to inner margin a little before 
middle, consisting of seven or eight spots (only black-edged on their 
inner side), — second row straighter, consisting of eight spots ringed 
with black, but not extending below submedian nervure, — third row 
close and parallel to hind-margin, small, lunular, only black-edged on 
their inner side (the first spot in $ enlarged so as to form a small 
white tip to wing at apex). Hind-wing : three transverse rows of 
spots in fore-ioing continued across this wing, the innermost and middle 
rows only as far as first median nervule, the outer row to anal angle ; 
a thin black ring in discoidal cell, another closing cell, and a third 
indistinct one touching the latter ring superiorly. Cilia grey, spotted 
with white between nervules. Under side. — Rich ochreous, tinged 
with hrotvn, deeper towards hind-margins ; spots mostly rather larger 
than on upper side, but not so sharply defined ; second transverse row 
of spots grey-margined on their outer edge, making them appear ocel- 
lated ; spots in outer row united to hind-marginal edge by short dark- 
grey streaks. Fore-iuhig : a greyish space at anal angle ; annular 
streak at extremity of discoidal cell enclosing a whitish space. Hind- 
