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Lepidoptera from the Eastern Congo. — Mr. Talbot on 

 behalf of Mr. Joicey exhibited the following Lepidoptera 

 collected by Mr. T. A. Barns on an expedition through the 

 region of the Eastern Congo to Ruwenzori and the Ituri. 

 Papilio mackimioni Shpe., a new race from S.E. Congo Dist. ; 

 Mylothris ruandana Grunb., the cj and hitherto unknown ? 

 from the Ruanda Dist. ; Belenois solilucis ButL, c^ ?, from 

 Semliki — the ? represents a new colour form ; Acraea disjuncta 

 Gr.-Sm., typical form from Ruwenzori together with the 

 mimetic Neptis ochracea Neave, taken with it ; a new form 

 with broad and continuous band on the fore-wing from the 

 Ituri Dist. ; Acraea sp. nov. near leucopyga, from Upper Congo ; 

 Acraea sp. nov. allied to goetzi, from the Kivu Dist. ; Acraea 

 butleri Auriv., four forms from the Kivu Dist.; Amaurina 

 ellioti ButL, from the Kivu Dist. ; Euptera hirundo Stgr., 

 subsp. nov., from the S.E. Congo Dist., a new $ form; 

 Euphaedra eleus Dry., subsp. nov., from S.E. Congo Dist.; 

 Euxanthe crossleyi Ward., typical form (Cameroons), form 

 transitional to ansorgei (Kasai Dist.), form with much en- 

 larged strijDcs (Ituri Dist.), f. ansorgei Roths. (Uganda); 

 Semioptila sp. nov., from S.E. Congo Dist. ; Dovania poecila 

 R. & J., a very rare Sphingid, from the Kivu Dist. ; Papilio 

 dardanus ? f. niohe Auriv., from Ituri; P. dardanus ? f, 

 trophonissa Auriv., from the Kivu Dist. ; P. ridleyanus Ward, 

 and Acraea perenna Doubl., taken feeding together; P. 

 jacksoni Shpe. ?, and model Amauris egialea, subsp. nov., 

 from Kivu Dist. ; Charaxes etheocles $ f. cedreatis Hew., taken 

 whilst feeding on tree gum ; resembles the $ of C. numenes 

 Hew., occurring in same region ; Planema schubofzi Grunb., (^ $, 

 from Ituri Forest, and mimicked by Pseudacraea eurytus ah, 

 hicolor Auriv. ; Planema macarista Shpe., a new form with cell- 

 spot on fore-wing, mimicked by Pseudacraea eurytus, f. hohleyi 

 Neave, from the Ituri Forest ; P. JioUeyi shows the hind-wing 

 band very sharply defined distally, which is not the case 

 with Uganda specimens he had seen; Acraea oberthuri ButL, 

 mimicked by Mimacraea landhecJci Druce, from Upper Congo 

 and Ituri Dist. ; Acraea uvui Gr.-Sm. $, mimicked by Vanes- 

 sula milca Hew., from Ruwenzori, found flying together; 

 Acraea bonasia Fbr., mimicked by 2 Telipna sp. ? from Upper 



