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covery of the South- African LibytJiea, however, and especially looking to the 
fact of its occurrence at Quilimane, not far north of the Zambesi Delta, I 
have little doubt that Mr. Waller's specimen was probably referable to Lams, 
and not to Cinyras. 
In December 1869, Mr. Walter Morant sent me the first evidence of the 
occurrence of a Libythea in Natal, in the shape of a coloured drawing of a $ 
taken by him on the 9th of that month at Avoca, Victoria County ; but I 
heard nothing more of the species until 1873, when the late Mr. E. C. 
Buxton met with it near D' Urban, and sent me a photograph and a much 
injured $ specimen. Colonel J. H. Bowker, F.Z.S., in September 1878 
landed at Quilimane, and there took six examples of the same species, which 
he forwarded to the South- African Museum ; and he and Mr. P. F. Payn of 
D' Urban have subsequently taken several specimens of both sexes at Pine- 
town, Ulovo, and other localities in the coast region of Natal. From these 
latter specimens, mostly in fine condition, my description is drawn up. 
Mr. Morant noted his example as taken on the top of a small tree in a 
waggon-road through thick bush ; " while Colonel Bowker describes the 
individuals captured by himself in April 1879 as taking short flights, like 
those of a Skipper," from one flower to another. The latter further wrote 
in December 1879 as follows, viz. : — "I think the Libythea spoil themselves 
by their fighting ; the eight that I have taken were all about the tops of the 
same trees, actively flying around, and settling with open wings at the ends 
of the twigs. Mr. Payn says that his examples were captured under similar 
circumstances. It is curious how nearly in appearance the Libythea resembles 
Cre7iis nataleiisis when at rest ; both settle head downward with closed wings 
on the bark of the same species of tree, and it is then hardly possible to 
distinguish them from each other. This has probably led to the Libythea 
being not often taken by the Natal collectors." 
Localities of Libythea Laiiis. 
I. South Africa. 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban {E. C. Buxton). Umgeni, Pinetown, 
and junction of Umlaas and Isipingo Bivers {J. 11. Bowker). 
Avoca {W. Morant). Ulovo (P. F. Payn). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
b. Eastern Coast. — Quilimane (/. H. BowJcer), 
Family III.— LYO^NID^. 
LijccEnida, Leach, " Edinb. Encyc, ix. p. 129 (1815)." 
Lycmnidce, Stephens, " Ulustr. Brit. Ent., Haust., i. p. 74 (1827)." 
Eumenides and Lycenides, Boisd., Sp. Gen. Lep,, i. pp. 163-164 (1836). 
Erycinidce (part), Swains. , Hist, and Nat. Arrangem. Ins., p. 94 (1840). 
Lyccenidte, Westw., Intr. Mod. Class. Ins., ii. p. 358 (1840); and Gen. 
Diurn. Lep., ii. p. 468 (1852). 
Imago. — Head of moderate size or rather small; eyes naked or 
hirsute ; palpi usually rather long, sometimes very long, scaly, seldom 
hairy,— the terminal joint slender, distinct, often longer in $ than in 
^ ; antennm variable in length, but usually rather short, — the club 
commonly somewhat abruptly formed, but sometimes very gradually. 
