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SOUTH-AFRICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
wing: first and second rows of spots botli extending to submedian 
nervure by an additional spot ; black rings in cell enclosing white 
spots. 
In some specimens the ground-colour of under side is more obscured than 
described above, and the white spots are indistinct. This is the form first 
described by Fabricius under the name of Dcedalus. His type-specimen of 
Melantha, too — which I have examined in the Banksian Collection of the 
British Museum — has the under-side spots almost obsolete. In the same col- 
lection there is a specimen with the spots in question well marked ; and in the 
Entomologia Systematica (p. 128) Fabricius describes as Meleagris a specimen 
with the white spots on the under side, and notes, " Mus. D. Banks." 
Mr. Druce [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lo7id., 1875, p. 411) notes that specimens 
from Angola were " very pale-coloured, with the white spots much smaller 
than in specimens from Old Calabar." 
This well-known and widely-dispersed native of Tropical Africa is far from 
common in South Africa proper, to judge from the few examples that have 
reached me. Mr. W. Morant, who took two specimens near Pretoria in March 
1872, wrote to me that one was met with frequenting bare patches of ground 
on the top of a rocky hill, and the other settling on a sandy footpath in low 
ground. These two specimens were of opposite sexes, and both white-spotted 
on the under side, but not conspicuously so. The only example sent by Colonel 
Bowker from D'Urban (February 1883) is also white-spotted beneath; he 
described its habits as like those of Pyrameis Cardui, and noted that it settled 
on a footpath with wings expanded. 
Localities of Hamanwnida Dcedalus. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {M. J. APKen and /. H. Bowker). 
F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {Colonel H. Tower). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Lourengo Marques {Mrs. Monteiro). 
K. Transvaal. — Lydenburg District {T. Ayres). Rustenburg (F. E. 
Noren). Pretoria [W. Morant). Limpopo River (i^. C. Selous). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical 
a. Western Coast. — Damaraland (0. J. Andersson and /. A. Bell). 
"Angola (/. /. Monteiro).'' — H. Druce. 
h. Eastern Coast. — Zambesi Valley {Rev. H. Rowley). " Querimba." 
— HopfFcr. "Kiriama {Kersten).'^ — Gerstacker. 
hi. Interior. — Shashani River {F. G. Selous). "Umvungu {F. 
Oates). " — Westwood. 
B. North Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Cape Coast Castle (/. M. PasJc). Cape Palmas 
{E. Bourke). Sierra Leone {A. N. Innes). 
h. Eastern Coast. — " Abyssinia : Shoa {Antinori)." — Oberthiir. 
Genus HARMA. 
Harma, Westw., Gen. Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 287 (1850). 
Imago. — Head of moderate size, with a tuft of hair on vertex and 
in front ; eyes smooth ; palpi short, scaly, inserted rather widely apart, 
and not or slightly convergent at tips, basal joint hairy beneath, middle 
