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collection. I am glad I insisted, that he should open the box 

 himself, and hand me each specimen in turn; he found 

 that barely half-a-dozen of the specimens were uninjured, the 

 rest were a mass of fragments of wings and bodies, for ants had 

 been at work on them. He himself had no idea of the condition 

 of his so-called collection, till he opened the box. The naphtha- 

 line should be crushed into fine powder, and a little sprinkled 

 into the empty biscuit tin, and then a little more on the top of 

 the last layer of specimens. It should never be placed inside the 

 paper pocket, where it might injure the specimen. A little 

 sprinkled on the top pad of cotton-wool will often suffice to keep 

 ants and other insects away. The beetle collection should be 

 treated in the same way. 



I shall now enumerate the different new species which I have 

 had the good fortune to capture. 



(A) Two butterfiies (described by Miss Emily Mary Sharpe). 

 Vide "Annals and Magazine of Natural History," Ser. 6, 

 vol. xviii. August 1896. 



Amauris ansorgei, sp. nov. (Plate I. fig. 6) . 



It belongs to the family Danaida?, and is allied to Amauris 

 Ellioti Butler, but differs in having the spots on the forewing 

 white instead of yellow. 



Forewing : ground-colour brownish-black with white spots. 

 Expanse : 3.1 inches. 



It was caught at Chagwe in Uganda on December 1894 near 

 a stream. 



Mycalesis ansorgei, sp. nov. (Plate 1. hg. 7). 



It belongs to the family Satyridae, and is allied to Mycalesis 

 rhanidostroma Karsch and Mycalesis saga Butler on the 

 underside. 



Forewing : basal area dark velvet-brown ; a round dark spot 

 or brand close to the cell is marked between the first and the 

 third median nervules. Expanse : 2.1 inches. 



It was caught at Mtebe (Port Alice) in Uganda on July 12, 

 1894, in the little wood which fringes Lake Victoria Nyanza, 

 near the Commissioner's residence. It frequents the shady 

 depths of the wood. Some more were caught at the same 

 place in January 1897. 



