1898.] ON BUTTERFLIES FROM THE HARAR HIGHLANDS. 



[From the PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 

 November 15, 1898.] 



A List of Butterflies obtained in the Harar Highlands by 

 Capt. H. G. C. Swayne, R.E. By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, 

 Ph.D., F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



The small collection of which the following is an account was 

 somewhat hurriedly made, all the specimens having been secured l 

 in about three days, at an elevation of from 4000 to 8000 feet on 

 the Harar Highlands. It is therefore not surprising that most of 

 them are a good deal shattered ; some of them are nevertheless very 

 acceptable additions to the Museum collection : one species is new. 



So little is known even now of the Lepidopterous fauna of 

 this part of Africa that every consignment received thence is of 

 importance and is worthy of careful record, even though many of 

 the examples may have no further value when that record has 

 been published. 



1 They do not appear to hare been netted, but rather knocked down and 

 captured by hand. 



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