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Show 1897.] BUTTERFLIES COLLECTED IN NATAL. 849 73. CHRYSORITIS OREAS, Trimen. Niginya, 6500 feet, Ulundi, Natal, 18th September, 1896. " I expect this very rare species will be new to the Museum collection. Hutchinson discovered it some years ago at a spot close under the main Drakensberg range some ten miles from Ulundi, and has never met with it since. It exhibits strongly the tendency to localization, for we only found it in a limited area of two or three acres on the summit of Niginya. Within this area it was abundant, as we took over fifty there between us, but outside of it not one was to be seen. It is very sluggish, flying very little, it being sometimes quite a difficulty to make it rise off the ground." Mr. Marshall is quite right in his surmise that this species is new to the Museum collection. 74. CRUDARIA LEROMA, Wallgr. Tugela Biver, 2500 feet, 28th October; 3rd, 9th, and 13th November; Frere, 3800 feet, 5th and 6th December, 1896. 75. CHRYSOPHANUS ORUS, Cramer. Estcourt, 8th October ; Frere, 5800 feet, 4th, 9th, and 10th December, 1896. 76. HYPOLYCAENA LARA, Linn. Chuga's Hill, 4000 feet, near Weenen, Natal, 29th October; Tugela Biver, 13th November, 1896. Sooner or later a genus must be made for this species, which has but little in common with typical Hypolyccena. 77. SPINDASIS PHANES, Trimen. Tugela Biver, near Weenen, 21st and 26th October, 1896. Both species of Spindasis sent in this collection are new to the Museum. 78. SPINDASIS MASILIKAZI, Wallgr. Tugela Biver, 2500 feet, 10th November, 1896. 79. APHNAEUS HUTCHINSONII, Trimen. (Plate L. fig. 7.) Tugela Biver, near Weenen, 30th October and 13th November, 1896. I never could comprehend why my friend Trimen refused to separate Spindasis from Aphnceus, the former having only four subcostal branches to the primaries, and the latter five : the style of pattern and coloration on the under surface is also very distinctive. 80. VIRACHOLA ANTALUS, Hopffer. 2 , Estcourt, 4000 feet, 13th October, 1896. " It is a very common insect." |