1920] Holland, Lepidoptem of the Congo ^ 213 



Libythea labdaca Aurivillius, 1913, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, PI. Lxia. 



Of this interesting insect, for which the late Dr. S. H. Scudder 

 proposed the generic name Dichora (cf. Report U. S. Geol. Survey, VIII, 

 part 1, p. 470) there are nineteen specimens: six taken at Medje, four 

 in June, one in August, and one in September 1910; three collected at 

 Basoko in July, 1909; three taken at Isangi and one at Stanlejndlle in 

 August 1909; four collected at Avakubi in September 1909; and two 

 badly worn examples taken at Lulnla in the same month and year. 



This butterfly in some years is quite scarce and onlj^ occasional 

 examples are taken; and again it appears in enormous numbers, fairly 

 swarming, as I have been informed l)y collectors resident in Cameroon 

 and on the Gold Coast. 



Lemoniidse 

 Abisara Felder 



(328) 1 . Abisara rogersi Druce 



Abisara rogersi Druce, 1878, Ent. Mo. Mag., XV, p. 101. 



Abisara geryon Dewitz, 1889, Ent. Nachr., XV, p. 105, PI. i, figs. 3, 4. 



A solitary male, captured at Niangara in November 1910. 



(329) 2. Abisara intermedia Aurivillius 

 Abisara intermedia Aurivillius, 1895, Ent. Nachr., XXI, p. 381. 



There are two males of this form, both taken at Medje, one in April, 

 the other in September. With these I associate three females, one taken 

 in each of the months April, July, and September at the same place. 

 They agree with the males on the imder side of the wings. 



(330) 3. Abisara rutherfordi Hewitson 



Abisara rutherfordii Hewitson, 1874, Ent. Mo. Mag., XI, p. 56. 



Abisara rutherfordi Aurivilliu.s, 1913, Seitz, Gross-Schmett., XIII, PI. hxib. 



There are three males and two females of this species captured at 

 Medje, one female in Jime, all the others in August. 



Lycaenidae 



The genera and species of this family known to occur in the region 

 of the Congo are not onh' very numerous, but of the highest interest. 

 The Ethiopian Sub region is the metropolis of some of the most aber- 

 rant forms of this great family, which display to a wonderful degree the 

 phenomena of "mimicry." Many species are gorgeously beautiful and 

 bizarre in their coloring, and in their habits are no less wonderful, quite 

 a large number of them Ijeing in their larval state carnivorous, or cnto- 

 mophagous, and manj' being myrmecophilous. 



