1898.] ON BUTTERFLIES FROM MASHUNALAND. 902 



[From the PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 

 November 29, 1898.] 



On a Collection of Butterflies almost entirely made at 

 Salisbury, Mashunaland, by Mr. Guy A. K. Marshall 

 in 1898. By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, Ph.D., F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., &c. 



The present consignment of Butterflies, with the exception of 

 fourteen examples referable to ten species, was collected at Salis- 

 bury, and therefore is a valuable addition to the Museum series of 

 Mashunaland Butterflies. Mr. Marshall writes : " I think you 

 will find one or two species among them new to the Museum 

 collection, notably a Baoris and a Kedestes, both of which Trimen 

 pronounced to be probably new when I first sent them to him some 

 four years ago ; but, as he has not referred to them in his recent 

 paper, I presume he has changed his mind. This is the only ex- 

 ample of the Kedestes which I have yet seen in Salisbury ; I first 

 met with it in December 1894 in the warm Mazoe valley, where 

 I took several examples settling on low herbage on the summits of 

 kopjes ; in habits it is quite iike K. macomo. 



"I shall be glad to know the name oi" the unidentified Mycalesis ; 

 I have only met with three examples in all round Salisbury, 

 one in April 1895, the others this year. I am somewhat in doubt 

 as to the Teracoli I have sent you labelled 'pallene,' for they are 

 practically indistinguishable from the extreme dry form of omphale ; 

 yet the wet form is certainly not omphale, which I do not remember 

 ever to have seen here, but seems referable to pallene. The larva 



