

1898.J ON LEPIDOFIERA FROM PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA. 49 



[From the PROCEEDINGS or THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY or LONDON, 

 February 1, 1898.] 



On a Collection of Lepidoptera made by Mr. F. V. Kirby, 

 chiefly in Portuguese East Africa. By ARTHUR G. 

 BUTLER, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., Senior Assistant- 

 Keeper, Zoological Department, British Museum. 



The collection of which the following is an account is chiefly of 

 interest because of the care with which most of the specimens have 

 been labelled, and from the fact that the supposed dry- and wet- 

 season forms of some of the species were both secured. There are 

 also several forms which are by no means common in collections, 

 and an interesting extreme form of Alcena nyasscc, var. ocJiracea, 



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