28 Dr. A. G. Butler on Butterflies from 
Var. tHHoane, Waller. 
3 3, Chaengombe, 23rd April; Rabai, 6th and 7th June ; 
Mombasa, 23rd 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 fiery mahogany colouring of 
the primaries being somewhat reduced in var. perton, more so 
in var. Yoane, 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 does not extend above the 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. crwsus 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. 
of, “ Frere?” Town, 12th May ; Rabai, 8th June, 1900. 
Mr. Rogers numbers this (159), ae remarks as follows :— 
“T 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 think only occurs at Rabai.” 
Considering the variability of the primaries in both A. har- 
pax and A. amanga, it is not surprising that confusion should 
have arisen. I strongly suspect that A. 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 patch, but this 
appears not to be the case in the type of A. mendeche. 
46. Argiolaus lalos, var., H. H. Druce. 
? , Chaengombe, 23rd April, L900. 
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. (alos. 
