]898.] FROM MASlll'XAl, AM). {M IS 



35. PIIASIS TIIKRO Linn. 



Capo Town, 5th October, 1S96. 



A very dwarfed example of this ran; species. 



3(5. ASLAUQA MAJISIIALLI, sp. n. 



Allied to A. po'/mmsce/i. 1 ?, Holland ; \villi more pronounced 



anal lobe to secondaries : upper surface altogether darker, vinous 

 brown suffused with blackish, with faint purple gloss on basal hull'; 

 fringes dull white with dusky central band, blacker and somewhat 

 irregular on primaries and interrupting the outer white, edging here 

 and there, notably at the extremity of the anal lobe of secondaries, 

 where it becomes quite black: thorax slate-blackish; head and 

 abdomen mostly brown : under surface fleshy clay-brown, irrorated 

 with darker brown; internal area of primaries greyish; fringes 

 rather less strongly banded than above: pectus and base of venter 

 dull white, legs and remainder of venter paler brown than the 

 wings l . Expanse of wings 32 millim. 



Salisbury, 4th June, 1898. 



In the West-African A. purpurascens there is a well-defined 

 brown line across the under surface of the wings and the upper 

 surface is considerably paler. 



37. TIIESTOU PEOTUMXUS Linn. 

 Simoustown, 30th December, 1S9G. 



38. ALCEIDES MALAGRIDA Trim. 

 Signal Hill, 22nd February, 1897. 



39. MYRIXA FICEDULA Trim. 



Salisbury, 26th February and 6th March, 1898. 



40. APIIXJEUS ERIKSSONII Trim. 



c? , Gadzima, 13th September, 1895. 



This fine and rare species is quite new to the Museum ; it is a 

 typical Aj_)linceus, although, strangely enough, the usual silver patches 

 are wholly absent from the under surface. 



41. VlRACIIOLA LI VIA Ivlug. 



d" , Salisbury, loth May, 1898. 



P API LION I I) .!:. 

 PlEIU]SM\ 



42. MYLOTIIIUS AGATIIIXA Cram. 

 rf, Salisbury, 19th May, 1898. 



1 The sides of the abdomen appear to be banded with black, but this may 

 have been produced by grease. 



