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their twigs or flowers. It was on the wing in February, March, and April ; 
and Colonel Bowker writes that he has taken it also in July. Though 
hitherto not recorded from Kaffraria proper, the insect probably occurs 
there, as Colonel Bowker sent an example from British Kaffraria, and in 
1870 Miss M. Barber gave me two ^ s captured by her as far south as the 
coast of the Bathurst district of the Cape Colony. 
Localities of Aj^Jinwus Masilikazi. 
I. South Africa. 
B. Cape Colony. 
h. Eastern Districts. — Mouth of Kleinemond River [Miss M. 
Barter). British Kaffraria (/. U. Bowker), 
c. Griqualand West. — Yaal River (/. H. Bowker). 
E. Natal. 
a. Coast Districts. — D'TJrban. Yerulam. Pinetown and Mouth 
of Tugela River (/. H. Boivker). 
h. Upper Districts. — Rorke's Drift, Buffalo River {J. H. Bowker). 
F. Zululand. — St. Lucia Bay {the late Colonel H. Tower). 
K, Transvaal. — Potchefstroom {T. Ayres). 
II. Other African Regions. 
A. South Tropical. 
a. Western Coast. — Damaraland (6^. J. Anderssoii). 
b. Eastern Coast. — "Querimba." — Hopffer. 
bi. Eastern Interior. — Shashani and Makloutze Rivers (F. 0. 
Selous). " Near Victoria Falls, Zambesi River (F. Gates)." — 
Westwood. , 
196. (4.) Aphnaeus Ella, Hewitson. 
Aplinceus Ella, Hewits., 111. Diurn. Lep., p. 63, n. ic, pi. 25, f. 6 (1865). 
Aphnmis Chaka, Wallengr., Ofv. K. Vet.-Akad. Ftirh., 1875, P- ^9} ^- 4^* 
Exp. al.^ I in. — I in. 3 lin. 
J Colouring and general iKdtern quite like tlwse of A. Natalensis^ 
Westw. Fore-wiiig : middle ochre-yellow stripe not oblique outwardly, 
but quite transverse, irregularly dentate on its outer edge, narrowed 
inferiorly, and sometimes confluent on median nervure (between first 
and second nervules), with the preceding short ochre-yellow stripe 
crossing discoidal cell ; outer ochre-yellow stripe completely separated 
from, being parallel to, middle stripe, very variable in form and width, 
— its superior extremity very narrow and often indistinct ; its middle 
portion, on third median nervule, partly or sometimes wholly separated 
by the fuscous-brown ground-colour. Hind-iving : two indistinct 
oblique discal darker stripes, and a submarginal one ; bluish-white 
streak close along lower half of hind-margin well developed ; no orange 
at anal angle, but tails of that colour at their base. Cilia whitish 
mixed with brown in fore-wing. Under side. — The stripes not orange 
or orange-ochreous, as in Natcdensis, but of a darker purple than in 
Masilikazi, and differing in form and arrangement from^ those of both 
