Page 455 45J5 the mentioned open places overgrown with creepers, one could sometimes see the Salamis temora, which is rare in collections, drawing the frame under measured wingbeats or resting on a leaf. Now and then spreading its splendid, blue and violet-shifting wings. Another form of the same genus. Salamis Anacardii, white and dark. with small red suns surrounded by yellow and bordered by black and in certain lighting shimmering violet. A large and magnificent butterfly, on the other hand, was common and preferred sparse forest. In clear sunlight it gracefully swings up among the treetops, spreads its ostentatious wings, lowers and rises, circling back and forth on outstretched wings. Then he looks down at a leaf or more often at its underside, where he rests with his head turned down and his wings folded. He is not infrequently startled from his resting place when one walks on wider forest paths, at the sides of which he likes to sit. The butterflies mentioned here are generally among the more common ones, which therefore give a certain characteristic touch to the area where they occur. Among them, of course, one sees a number of rarer forms, which, however, in a general sketch like this, would not be appropriate to mention. The areas examined during the trip proved to be rich in butterflies, and Prof. Aurivillius, who has processed the collections brought back from there, writes about this: "If one may judge the fauna of the various African regions according to the lists published so far, Cameroon must be one of the richest regions in Africa in butterflies. During his stay in Cameroon, Sjöstedt collected, as is evident from my now completed list, no less than 392 species of butterflies in the small area between the Cameroon Mountains and the Ndian River. From the very large area, which includes the entire South Atlantic Ocean south of the Tropic of Capricorn, Trimen lists in his excellent work no more than 387 species. From the large island of Madagascar, which has been visited by numerous collectors in recent years, according to Mabille, only 255 species of butterflies are known. Of other local lists, mention may be made of Schauss and Clements from Sierra Leone with 211, Karsch's from Togo with 22< ». and Plöt/.'s list of Buchholz exchanges with