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ON A SMALL COLLECTION OF LEPIDOPTERA FROM 

 PEMBA ISLAND. 



By W. L. Distant. 



Pemba is a small island situate a little north of Zanzibar, and, 

 by the good offices of Mr. T. P. Newman, Mrs. Theodore Burtt, 

 whose husband is engaged in missionary work on that spot, has 

 sent me a small collection of Lepidoptera. The seventeen species 

 of butterflies are all old friends, being well known on the east 

 coast, and many from the Transvaal. Acrcea zetes is also a west 

 coast species, and Baoris mathias is eastern in distribution, being 

 also found in the Oriental and Malayan regions. The few moths 

 call for little comment. Pitthea trifasciata was described by 

 Dewitz from Zanzibar; and a species of Syntomis appears to be 

 nondescript, and is here described. 



EHOPALOCERA. 

 Nymphalid^. 

 Acrceina. 

 Acrcea zetes, Linn. 

 A. natalica, Boisd. 

 A. acara, Hew. 

 A. neobule, Doub. & Hew. 

 A. buxtoni, Butl. 

 A. encedon, Linn. 



Nymphalince. 



Junonia cebrene, Trim. 

 J. clelia, Cram. 

 Precis elgiva, Hew. 

 P. natalica, Feld. 

 Hypolimnas misippus, Linn. 



Papilionid^. 

 Pieri7icB. 

 Terias zoe, Hopff. 



Catopsilia jiorella, Fabr. 

 Belenois mesentina, Cram. 



Papilionince. 

 Papilio demoleus, Linn. 



Hesperiid.e. 

 Gegenes hottentota, Latr. 

 Baoris mathias, Fabr. 



HETEROCEEA. 

 Syntomid^. 

 Syntomis hurtti, sp. n. 

 EiLchromia lethe, Fabr. 



Arctiad^. 

 Argina astrea, Dru. 



Geometric^. 

 Pitthea trifasciata, Dewitz. 



Syntomis burtti, sp.n. 

 Head and pronotum fuscous, anterior and lateral margins of pro- 

 notum broadly ochraceous ; abdomen above ochraceous ; body beneath 

 ocbraceous ; antennfe, eyes, legs, and apex of abdomen fuscous. Wings 

 fuscous ; anterior wings with two subquadrate ochraceous spots near 

 base, the first in cell, the second immediately beneath it ; two large 

 pale subhyaline spots on apical area each divided by a nervure, the 

 upper spot longest and narrowest ; posterior wings with a central 

 ochraceous spot joined to abdominal margin, which is also ochraceous 

 for about half its length from base. Exp. wings: ^, 22 mm. ; ? , 

 24 mm. 



Hab. Pemba Island (Mrs. Theodore Burtt). 



