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After carefully comparing specimens from different parts of the world, 
I agree with Hopffer (loc. cit. ) in considering that Telicanus, varying a good 
deal in size, markings, and colouring wherever it is found, presents nowhere 
any constant local race which can be satisfactorily defined as a distinct form. 
There can be no doubt that, as far as is known, the tendency of the butter- 
fly is to be paler and bi'ighter in tint throughout the Ethiopian Region 
proper than in Southern Europe and extra-tropical North Africa, — this being 
chiefly shown in the white markings of both sexes on the under side, and 
the whitish ones of the $ on the upper side. Specimens that I captured in 
Mauritius were, however, as dusky as those usually found on Mediterranean 
shores, and none of either sex exceeded one inch in expanse of wings. Hopffer 
notes that specimens from the Cape, Mozambique, and Guinea are largest, 
and those from Egypt and Arabia the smallest, while European examples 
hold the middle place. 
The nearest ally of L. Telicanus is L. Cassiiis, Cram., an abundant species 
in Central and South America. The under-side dark markings are very 
similar in Cassius, but more attenuated, and the white outer ones largely 
developed and completely confluent, so as to compose a white ground ; the 
two ocelli of the hind-wing are feebly marked, and there is no tail. On the 
upper side the ^ Cassius is much like the same sex of Telicanus, but the 
$ is broadly suffused with white discally, especially in the hind-wing, where 
only the costal and hind-marginal borders are dark. 
Telicanus is common and widely spread in South Africa, frequenting 
gardens and open ground, where it flits rather actively about low flowers and 
grass. I have met with it from the beginning of November to the begin- 
ning of June. I observed the paired sexes at Cape Town on 2d April 1882. 
The $ carries the when flying in copula. 
Localities of Lycmna Telicanus. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
a. Western Districts. — Cape Town. Robertson. Knysna. Plet- 
tenberg Bay. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Port Elizabeth. Grahamstown. East Lon- 
don. King William's Town {J. H. Bowker). 
d. Basutoland. — Maseru {J. H. Boivlxcr). 
D. Kaffraria Proper. — Butterworth {J. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'Urban. Yerulam. Pinetown (/. H. Bowker). 
h. Upper Districts. — Maritzburg. Greytown. Great Noodsberg. 
Estcourt [J. M. Hutchinson). 
F. Zululand. — Napoleon Yalley {J. H. Bowker). St. Lucia Bay {tlie 
late Colonel H. Tower). 
H. Delagoa Bay. — Louren^o Marques i^Mrs. Moiiteiro). 
K. Transvaal." — Potchefstroom District (JT. Ay res). 
II. Other i\frican Begions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Damaraland (C. J. Andersson). "Angola 
{Pogge) . ' ' — Dewitz. 
h. Eastern Coast. — "Mozambique." — Hopffer. 
61. Eastern Central Interior. — Moklontze, Tati, and Zambesi 
Bivers {F. C. Selous). " Tati, Gwailo Biver, and near Vic- 
toria Falls of Zambesi (Oates).^' — Westwood. 
