122 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Jan. 14, 



borders, a transverse patch over the discocellulars, and a macular 

 subapical bar, sometimes confluent with the external border, black : 

 secondaries with a black external border, its inner edge slightly 

 irregular, two metallic-blue submarginal spots, between which at 

 extremity of first median branch the usual tail, black tipped with 

 white, is emitted ; fringes spotted with white : body black, margins 

 of eyes and a transverse line on the vertex white ; antennae ringed 

 with white. Under surface pure white, with black markings nearly 

 as in H. juba, but more sharply defined, the central irregular band 

 across the secondaries only represented by a black Y-shaped costal 

 patch, with the V portion filled in ; the marginal border barely 

 indicated, excepting towards anal angle, where the black spots 

 touched with blue and green metallic scales are well-defined, as 

 well as an irregular zigzag line at the back of them. Expanse of 

 wings 33 mi Him. 



$ $ , Cheni-Cheni Mt., 4500 feet alt., Nyika, April 18th, 1895. 



" Black-bordered white Blue" (R. <?.). 



Two examples of this very fine species were obtained; one of 

 which, however, was much shattered. 



60. URANOTHAUMA CRAWSHAYI. 



Uranothauma crawshayi, Butler, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 631, pi. xxxv. 

 figs. 6, 7. 



rf rf, Nyankowa Mt., 6500 feet alt., Nyika, April 9th, 1895; 

 $ , Kantorougondo Mt., 5900 feet alt., Nyika, April 15th; tf, 

 $ $ , 6975 feet alt., April 16th, 1895. 



" Giant Blue " (JR. <?.). 



61. SPIKDASIS CAFFER. 



Aphnceus ca/er, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1868, p. 88, 

 and 1870, p. 368. 



Aphnceus natalensis, Hewitson (not Westwood), 111. Diurn. Lep. 

 p. 62, pi. xxv. figs. 1, 2 (1865). 



c? , Henga, west of Lake Nyasa, Jan. 22nd, 1895. 



" Orange and black-barred Blue" (R. <?.). 



In his * South African Butterflies,' vol. ii. p. 150, Mr. Trimen 

 follows Hewitson in regarding this as S. natalensis of West- 

 wood on the ground, principally, "of the large size of the 

 orange anal-angular marking in the hind wing." We, however, 

 possess what is clearly the original of the figure in the * Genera/ 

 a worn female with unusually large anal patch ; it was obtained in 

 1846, labelled " Theda natalii, Ft. Nat.," and agrees in all details 

 of marking with the original figure. With regard to " the small 

 development of the hind marginal lunulate whitish streak," also 

 referred to by Trimen, the figure and specimen are both faulty, 

 the latter being badly rubbed on one hind wing, and the same part 

 broken away on the other ; the imagination of Hewitson was not 

 lively enough to enable him to supply this deficiency in the 

 whitish streak. 

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