1900.) INSECTS AXU .IRVCHXIUS FROM: s>0\f ALT LAN' U, 13 



prevalent in that i-egiou. So fur as the evidence of Mr. Peel's 

 collection goes, the reverse is the case. Another remarkable t'ai.-t 

 in the distribution of these parallel forms is that while //. hlugii is 

 extremely rare in India, the corresponding variety of H. misippua 

 2 occurs there not infrequently '. It is also worthy of note 

 that the white-winded West-African form, Limnas alcippus Cram., 

 is accompanied by the ordinary, and not the white-winged, form of 

 JI. misipinis 5 . 



The dates and localities of the pi-esent examples are as follows: — 

 Hargaisa, A])ril 25-28, 1895, 6 c?, 1 $ (ordinary type); Arigu- 

 meret, Farfauyer District, June 20, 1897, in thick bush, 2 cj , 1 ? 

 (var. alcippoides Butl.) ; Bally Maroli, Haud District (North 

 Central JSomaliland), June 25, 1897, in open plain, 14 J; Eyk, 

 Haud District, July 2, 1897, 3 d" • One other male was taken in 

 Central or East Somaliland between Jnue 5 and October 29, 1897, 

 the exact locality being uncertain. 



Hamanumida d^dalus Fabr. 



One male, Hargaisa, April 25-28, 1895. The underside is of 

 the " dry-season " form, though not extreme. 



LyCjE^IIUJE. 

 POLYOMMATUS B.ETICirs Liuu. 



Two specimens, both males. On the thickly wooded banks of a 

 dry river-bed, Haud, Odeweiu, June 21 & 23, 1897. 



Plebeius trochilus Freyer. 



Two females. Gerato Pass, GooUs Range (North-west Somali- 

 land), June 9, 1897. 



AzANtrs JESous Guer. 



Five males. Of these, four were captured on the dry sandy 

 plateau of Edegan in the Haud District (North Central Somali- 

 land), July 9, 1897 ; the remaining one was taken at Joh in the 

 Haweea Country (East Central Somaliland), Sept. 20, 1897. 



AZAXUS THEBANA Stdgr. 



Lyccena macalemja. Trim. S.-Afr. Butterfl. vol. ii. p. 74 (1887). 



Three specimens : 1 c? , 2 2 . One pair from Odewein, Haud, 

 June 21-23, 1897, dry river-bed witli thickly wooded banks; 

 the other female from the sandy plateau of Edegan, in the same 

 district, July 9, 1897. 



LlC^NESTHES PRINCEPS Butl. 



Two females apparently belonging to this form, though some- 

 what smaller than the type, which came from Abyssinia. Edegan, 

 Haud District, July 9, 1897. 



' See Swinhoe, Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vol. xxv. pp. 340, 341. For a 

 summary of the facts at present known with regard to the distribution of tlia 

 forms in question, see Poulton, ' Nature ' July G, 1899, p. 223 



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