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Crenis Morantii, p. 253. 

 Additional locality: — Zululaud : Etshowe (^1. M. Goodrich). 



Crenis Jiosa, Hewitson, p. 255. 



(J Crenis PecJmelii, Dewitz, Nov. Act. Leop.-Carol.-Deutsch. Akad. Nat., 

 xli. p. 195, tab. xxvi. f. i (1879). 



(J Crenis Pechuelii, Staud., Exot. Schmett, i. p. 107, pi. 40 (1885). [Female 

 noted in text.] 



I overlooked the fact that C. Pechuelii is unquestionably the ^ of Ilcwitson's 

 earlier C. Rosa, owing partly to the dull colouring and small size of Dewitz's 

 figure, which gives but little idea of the great beauty of the insect. Staud- 

 inger's figure is not much better, but renders more faithfully the warm, rich 

 ochre-yellow of the under side of the fore-wings. Dewitz's types (six ^ s) 

 were taken by Pogge in Angola ("Lat. 10° S., long. 17-22° E."), but Staiid- 

 inger mentions having received a pair from Vivi, on the Congo, and others 

 from the Quango, a southern tributary of the Congo. 



I have lately (1888) had the pleasure of receiving eleven fine (J s from 

 Otjimbora, a locality within the Portuguese boundary of the interior of the 

 province of Mossamedes, just to the north-east of Ovampoland, and situated 

 apparently in about S. lat. 17° 8', and E. long. 17° 27'. These specimens were 

 taken by the well-known hunter and naturalist Mr. A. W. Eriksson, at dates 

 between the 20th November and 3d December 1887.^ I give from these 

 examples the characters distinguishing the $ from the 9 • 



$ Exp. al., 2 in. 5j-7i lin. Violaceous-hlue brighter, suhmetallic, more 

 or less shot toith pink. Fore-ioing : Oblique fuscous bars between extremity of 

 discoidal cell and apex wanting; near apex, from fourth subcostal to lower 

 radial nervule, a transverse row of three small, or very small, fuscous spots, of 

 which the lowest is the largest ; hind-marginal fuscous border very much 

 narrower, almost linear in some examples, its radiation on nervules and on 

 subcostal nervure much thinner ; a submarginal series of very small fuscous 

 spots, extending from costa to between second and first median nervules. 

 Hind-wing : black spots of discal series smaller, not encircled by paler blue. 

 Under side. — As in 9 > but brighter ; the greenish-ivhite markiiigs more glossy, 

 and sometimes ivith a tinge of violaceous-blue. Fore-iving : no trace of inner 

 oblique fuscous bar or of spot below third median nervule ; costal-apical 

 widening of greenish-white edging wanting. Hind-wi7ig : median and pre- 

 niedian greenish-white transverse bands usually coalesce, more or less com- 

 pletely, about median nervure and the base of its first nervule, but in four 

 examples they are completely separated, as in $ . 



This lovely Nymphaline has much the aspect of a magnified Lycaenide, its 

 shot-blue upper side strongly resembling that of various species of Lycaeiia, 

 while the under side in tints and hind-wing ocellate spots strongly recalls that 

 of the European Chrysophanus Hippofhoe. 



Additional localities in South Tropical Africa ; — AVestern Interior. — Mossa- 

 medes Province : Otjimbora (A. W. Eriksson). "Angola (Pogge)." — Dewitz. 

 Congo: " Yivi (Pechuel-Loesche) ami Quango River (Von Mechow)." — Staud- 

 insfer. 



^ Four of the nearly allied and almost equally beautiful C. Benguelce were taken by Mr. 

 Eriksson at the same time and place, and two other examples at Ehanda, considerably 

 farther northward, in September 1887. In 1873 I made a description of two (J s of this 

 Crenis among other butterflies collected at Kabenda, about forty miles north of the mouth 

 of the Congo, by Lieutenant Larconi, R.N. 



