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TWO NEW AFEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



By K. JORDAN, Ph.D. 



1. Pseudacraea kuenowi hypoxantha snbsij. no v. 



In a paper read at the Entomological Congress at Brussels I referred, inter alia, 

 to the similarity obtaining between the Nymphaline genus Pseudacraea and the 

 Acraeine genus I'lanema, and showed a nnmber of the forms belonging to these two 

 genera. Among them was a Psemhu-J'uea from Uganda which in literature and 

 collections is generally identified as P. kuenowi Dew. (1879). The insect, however, 

 is not true Iiucnowi, but a markedly different race which has as yet no name. As the 

 committee of the Congress does not deem it advisable to publish new names in the 

 Comj/tcs Rendus — now in press— I take the present opportunity of describing and 

 naming the new Pseudacraea. 



<S ? . Smaller than true kuenowi. Sexes practically alike in colour ; the ? 

 rather larger than the c?, its forewing being more elongate and the distal margin of 

 its hindwing less rounded. Band of forewing paler yellow than in kuenowi from 

 Angola and the Congo, being bright buflfish orange, not ferruginous orange as 

 in kuenowi (Dewitz describes the band as "fulva" and as "gelb"; in our two 

 specimens, SS, the colour is as stated above); the band, moreover, is broader 

 than in true kuenowi and more sharply defined, being less invaded by black from 

 the distal margin, the spot R^— M' as long as the next two, all three reaching 

 close to the margin and being well defined also on the proximal side, the 

 anterior portion of the band from W to upper angle of cell half as broad 

 again as in true kuenowi. Anal angle of hindwing paler yellow ; the white 

 band on the whole broader.. 



Underside paler than in kuenowi. 



Fairly common in Uganda ; name-type from Entebbe, June 1002 (Major 

 Rattray). 



2. Charaxes protoclea nothodes subsp. nov. 



Herr R. Graner, from whom we have received some small but very interest- 

 ing collections of Lepidoptera, discovered in the hills to the west of the north end 

 of Lake Tanganyika, a form of Ckaraxe.-i which so completely links the West 

 African protoclea Feisth. (18.50) with the East African azota Hew. (1877) that 

 these insects must now be regarded as being geographical forms of a single 

 species. The trne protoclea extends as far east as the Manyema country at the 

 Upper Congo. Between this country and the Lake the new race notkodes occurs, 

 and further east and south azota is found. 



c?. Head, prouotum, and base of forewing at costal margin more or less 

 distinctly chestnut. Forewing, above, with a marginal and a snbmarginal series 

 of orange spots ; the snbmarginal row extends from SC* to the hindmargin, the 

 spots being clearly marked in two specimens, the first spot absent from one 

 example and the five anterior spots more or less obsolescent in two other 

 specimens ; the marginal row also extends to ISC'*, the four anterior spots being 

 small or more or less obsolescent; the two rows are confluent posteriorly, this 



