102 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



scutum, scutellum and median area of the postnotum deep black. 

 Pleura and lateral regions of the postnotum light reddish-yellow. 

 Halteres dark brown, the base of the stem paler. Legs with the 

 coxae and trochanters yellow ; femora dark brown with the bases 

 yellowish, these broadest on the fore legs, where they occupy almost 

 the basal half, on the hind legs very narrow ; tibite and tarsi dark 

 brown. Wings subhyaline, the costal margin, the broad wing-apex 

 and a narrow seam along the cord dark brown ; the costal margin 

 includes cells C and Sc and the bases of cells B and M; the wing- 

 apex includes all of cells B 4 and M 2, the inner margin of this area 

 being almost straight, continued obliquely backward from the end of 

 Sc ; the seam along the cord is broadest anteriorly, narrowed to a 

 point at the bend of Cu 2 ; the outer margin of cell Cu 1 is narrowly 

 darkened ; veins dark brown. Venation : Bs short, almost straight, 

 longer than r-m, B 2 + S and i? 4 + 5 arising directly from the end 

 of Bs. The macrotrichise in the distal cells are found in most of the 

 area distad of the cord in cells 2nd M and Cic 1 and along the wing- 

 margin in cell Cu. 



Abdomen with the basal tergite yellow, the remaining tergites 

 shiny black with a narrow yellow ring on the third and another at 

 the base of the fourth segment ; last two segments and the valves of 

 the ovipositor pale brown. 



Habitat. — Southern Nigeria. 



Holotype, ? , Ilesha, September 17th, 1911, caught in house, 

 8.30 a.m. (Capt. L. E. H.Humfrey). 



Type in the collection of the British Museum (Natural 

 History) . 



Ptychoptera africajia is the second species to be described 

 from the Ethiopian region, the other being P. capensis, 

 Alexander, of Natal {' Annals South African Museum,' xvii,. 

 pt. 2, pp. 139, 140, 1917). By the author's key to the species of 

 PtychojJtera (' Canadian Entomologist,' xlv, pp. 197, 198, 1913) 

 the j)resent form would run out at couplet 4. It more or 

 less resembles P. distincta, Brunetti, of India, in the dark costal 

 margin and wing-apex, but is readily told by the yellow thoracic 

 pleura and other characters. 



BUTTEKFLIES IN MACEDONIA. 

 By Herbert Mace. 



(Concluded from p. 64.) 



Pi/rameis atalanta. — I never saw anything of this butterfly 

 until the autumn of 1917, when I was sent to a post in a deserted 

 village which had only been evacuated in the spring of that year. 

 Almost every garden was haunted by one or more Bed Admirals 

 sailing to and fro in the fearless friendly way one associates with 

 this insect. I saw it at intervals down to the beginning of 



