28 Dr. A. G. Butler 07i Butterjlies from 



Var. /JoanCf Wallgr. 



(^ (^ , Chaon,o:ombe, 2ord April ; Rabai, 6th and 7th June ; 

 ]\Iombasa, 23rci June. 



Two examples of the variety are numbered (8), like the 

 typical form, and two (180). A. harpax appears to be an 

 extremely variable species, the tiery mahogany colouring of 

 the primaries being somewhat reduced in var. perion, more so 

 in var. ijoaiie, and wanting or nearly so in var. punicea. 

 Similar variations occur in the males of A. amanga, examples 

 from Abyssinia having the belt on the primaries narrowed 

 and interrupted, whilst in British Central Africa it is usually 

 cone-shaped, with a separate spot for the apex of the cone, 

 and docs not extend above tlie second median branch ; never- 

 theless we have one normal male from Nyasaland. 



Another example is also numbered (180), and is doubtless 

 a form of var. crcesus with the basal area of the primaries 

 very black, so that the central reddish area represents a 

 narrow and irregular tapering band, divided externally below 

 the first median branch by a transversely oblique black bar ; 

 this specimen was caught at Rabai on the 8th June. 



45. Axiocerses amanga, Westw. 



c^ c? , " Frere ? " Town, 12th May ; Rabai, 8th June, 1900. 



Mr. Rogers numbers this (159), and remarks as follows: — 

 " I am afraid there is some confusion amongst these ; (8) is 

 common, (159) is not common, but occurs both at Rabai and 

 here ; (180), if distinct?, 1 tiiink only occurs at Rabai. -"^ 



Considering the variability of the primaries in both A. har- 

 pax and A. amnnga^ it is not surprising that confusion should 

 have arisen. I strongly suspect that ^1. mendeche from Mom- 

 basa is only an example of A. amanga in which the belt on 

 the primaries is bounded by vein 4, which I should imagine 

 is the vein indicated in the description ; as a rule when this 

 is the case the band is converted into a conical patcli, but this 

 appears not to be the case in the type of A. mendeche. 



46. Argiolaus lalos, var., H. H. Druce. 



? , Chaengombe, 23rd April, 1900. 



The white patches on the upper surface are rather smaller, 

 the red more vivid and rather more restricted on the second- 

 aries : below, the red markings are deeper, the anal patch 

 extending further inwards ; the black markings stronger and 

 only extending to the second median branch. I think this 

 will prove to be only a well-nourished example of A. lalos. 



