42 Dr. G. B. LongstafE on 



(ochreous) female as that figured in tiie Symbolae Physicae 

 has been received from Arabia since King's time. Shortly, 

 he thinks that King had before him two nearly alhed 

 species, an Arabian male and an African female. 



Meanwhile Swinhoe described the Aden species as yer- 

 burii, and Dixey is strongly of opinion that it would be 

 convenient for that name to stand, and the name daira 

 to be confined to the African species. Probably King's 

 type (female) of daira came from Ambukol. 



Petherick took this species on the White Nile. Dunn 

 found it on the Bahr al-Zarafa. Loat took it near Kaka 

 and at Mongalla. Selous took two males at Tawila and 

 other two near Tawfikiya. The Swedish expedition sent 

 home four males and four females, from Abba Island, 

 Renk and Kaka. 



In 1909 I took a male at Khartum, six males and four 

 females at Ad-Duwem, a female at Hillet Abbas, and three 

 males and two females at Tawila. 



In 1912 I captured a male between Soba and Khartum, 

 and met with it more or less commonly all the way up the 

 White Nile to Rejaf. My specimens vary in colour and 

 even more in size, but the dwarfs were not localised, e. g. 

 at Malek two males were taken, one of them described as 

 " a dwarf with very little black," the other as " a fine 

 large specimen with much black." One male was yellowish 

 in ground-colour ; in some females there is an orange-red 

 flush before the tip, but in a large specimen this is quite 

 absent, the tip being broadly black. 



Mrs. Waterfield took a number at Port Sudan, where I 

 found one of each sex. Rothschild took it on the Atbara, 

 also at Shendi. Cholmley took a female " below Shelal 

 mountain." 



It occurs in Abyssinia, Somaliland and British East 

 Africa. 



58. Teracolus evagore, Klug. 



The type is said to have come " ex Arabia deserta." 

 Dr. Dixey considers T. nouna, Lucas, T. saxeus, Swinhoe, 

 T. glycera, Butler, T. demagore, Felder, and T. heuglini, 

 Felder, to be all synonyms of this variable species, which 

 has a wide distribution almost throughout Africa, and 

 extending to S. Arabia. 



Petherick took a male on the White Nile, also a female 

 which Butler referred to demagore, Feld. Dunn took it on 



