Africa, Southern -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Africa, Southern
Alis supra fulvis, puniceo interdum tinctis; anticarum apice late
nigris maculisque 9 parvis nigris, 4 in lineam obliquam pone medium
positis; alis posticis maculis circiter 14 parvis nigris discoidalibus,
margine tenui nigro fulvo-maculato: alis subtus pallidioribus, apice
anticarum lutescenti, fulvo-strigoso; maculis nigris parum majoribus
præsertim in alis posticis, interstitiis rubro-maculatis. Expans. alar.
antic. unc. 2.
_Acr. Oncææ_ affinis sed apice lato nigro alarum anticarum optime
distincta.
Numerous specimens taken at Tati and the Motloutsi River in May.
Family NYMPHALIDÆ.
Genus CHARAXES, Ochsenheimer.
43. (1) CHARAXES PELIAS, Cramer, pl. 3, f. C, D; Godart; Trimen,
p. 175; Butler, Lep. Exot. pl. 10, f. 5.
Near the Seruli River, August 19, 1873; and near the Victoria Falls in
January.
Genus CYNTHIA, Fabricius.
44. (1) CYNTHIA CARDUI, Linnæus.
Taken at the Indunas’ Tree, near the Umvungu River, end of November.
Genus JUNONIA, Hübner.
45. (1) JUNONIA CLELIA, Cramer, pl. 21, f. E, F; Trimen, p. 128.
Bamangwato, Ramaqueban River, Gubuleweyo, and near Tati.
46. (2) JUNONIA ŒNONE, Linnæus: Cramer, pl. 35, f. A, C; Trimen,
p. 125.
Tati, Ramaqueban River, and about the Matengwe River.
47. (3) JUNONIA ORITHYA, Linnæus: Cramer, pl. 19, f. C, D, pl.
32, f. E, F, and pl. 290, f. A, B. Common in India, etc.
This species, not included in Trimen’s work, was taken near the
Victoria Falls in the month of January. The Hopeian collection also has
it from Sierra Leone.
48. (4) JUNONIA OCTAVIA, Cramer, pl. 135, f. B, C; Trimen, p.
130.
Near the Victoria Falls in January.
49. (5) JUNONIA NATALICA, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 106.
_Junonia Hecate_, Trimen, p. 140.
Near the Victoria Falls in January.
50. (6) JUNONIA CLOANTHA, Cramer, pl. 338, f. A, B; Trimen, p.
137.
Near the Dry River, middle of March.
Genus DIADEMA, Boisduval.
51. (1) DIADEMA MISIPPUS, Linnæus.
Fœm. var. _Papilio Inaria_, Cramer, pl. 214, f. A, B.
Near the Victoria Falls; also from Sierra Leone, the Zambesi, and
Mauritius, in the Hopeian collection.
Genus ATERICA, Boisduval.
52. (1) ATERICA MELEAGRIS, Cramer, pl. 66, f. A, B; Drury, Ill.
Exot. Ent. vol. iii. pl. 17, f. 3, 4; Trimen, p. 157.
Indunas’ Tree, near the Umvungu River, in November.
Genus DANAIS, Latreille.
53. (1) DANAIS CHRYSIPPUS, Linnæus; Cramer, pl. 118, f. B, C.
Indunas’ Tree, near the Umvungu River; and near Gubuleweyo in December.
Genus HYPANIS, Boisduval.
54. (1) HYPANIS ILITHYIA, Drury, Ill. Exot. Ent. vol. ii. pl.
17, f. 1, 2; Cramer, pl. 214, f. C, D; Trimen, p. 214.
Tati, Ramaqueban River, Inkwesi River (March 1874), Dry River; and
Indunas’ Tree, near the Umvungu River.
Family SATYRIDÆ.
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