LIST OF THE LEPIDOPTEKA COLLECTED IN EASTEliN 

 AFRICA BY DE. W. L. ABBOTT, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 

 SOME APPARENTLY NEW SPECIES. 



By W. J. Holland, Ph. D. 



The collectiou of Lepi(ioi)tera referred to me for determination from 

 tlie U. S. National Museum, contains ninety-one species of Rbopalocera 

 and forty-six species of Heterocera. They had all been pinned and 

 expanded at the National Museum, and a small ticket with the word 

 Zanzibar written upon it afiQxed to the pins in most cases. In a. few 

 cases there was in addition a label in another handwriting, presumably 

 that of Dr. Abbott, giving information as to the exact locality from 

 which certain specimens came. An examination renders it probable 

 that these latter labels are clipped from the envelopes in which the 

 insects were originally packed. In a number of instances it is plain 

 that instead of having come from Zanzibar or its immediate vicinity, as 

 the small labels affixed at the Museum would indicate, they must have 

 come from the interior, and from a relatively high altitude above the 

 level of the sea. The collection contains only a small number of species 

 new to science, the great majority being species well known from other 

 localities, and noticeably from temperate South Africa, many of them 

 species named in the last century. The presence ofaiiAi'gynnis and a 

 CJinjsophanus in tlie collection is ])eculiarly interesting, and suggests to 

 the student the thought that when a more thorough exploration of the 

 lofty heights of Kilimanjaro, Kenia and Ruwenzori shall have been 

 made, there will be some very remarkable, if not astonishing, facts 

 brought to light as to the geographical distribution of animals. 



Suborder RHOPALOCERA. 



Family NYMPHALID^E, Swainson. 



Genus DANAIS, Latreille. 



DANAIS CHRYSIPPUS, Linnaeus, var. KLUGII, Butler. 



Limnas klugii, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 758. 

 Euplwa (Jorippus, var. khcgii, Klug, Syml). Pbys., pi. XLViii, fig. 5. 



There are two females and one male specimen of this species in the 

 collection. The females differ in size, and the larger example exceeds 



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