^^^8 ] FROM EQUATORIAL AFRICA. $9 



72. Castalius ISIS. 



Popilio isis, Drury, 111. Exot. Eat. ii. pi. 3. figs. 4, 5 (1773). 



J. Stazione Bauri, September 1883; Monbuttu, July and 

 August. 



73. ZizERA KNYSNA, var. 



Lyccena knysna, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Son. ser. iii. vol. i. p. 282 

 C1S()2). " ^' 



6 ■ Wadelai, 13th January, 1887. 



A worn specimen, differing from the normal type in its grever 

 coloration, with silvery-blue scaling on the basal three-fourths, but 

 most distinctly towards the base. 



74. Lyc^nesthes princeps. 



Lyc(P.nesthes princeps, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist ser 4 

 vol. xviii, p. 484 (1876). '. ' 



?. Tobbo, 22nd May, 1883. 

 Originally described from Abyssinian examples. 



75. Hyreus lingeus. 



Papilio lingeus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 379. F, G (1782). 

 S . Stazione Bauri, September 1883. 



7Q. HyPOLYC^NA (TaTURA) PACHALICA, sp. n. 



Allied to H. philippus. Wings above deep rufous-brown, glossed 

 with purple m male examples ; with a black marginal line; primaries 

 with orange basicostal margin, and with greyish fringe, traversed by 

 a darker central line; secondaries with the usual black spots bounder] 

 by orange lunules above the tails, the anal spot flecked with pale 

 metallic green ; a simple black spot between them, an abbreviated 

 submarginal line, a line at the base of the fringe, the fringe and tips 

 of the tails white ; body black, the head varied with tawn'v scales • 

 under surface of wings pale stone-grey ; a short bar at the end of 

 each discoidal cell, a band across the disk, and a submarginal stripe 

 bright reddish orange, edged with black and margined with whitish • 

 a white submarginal line, separated by an orange line from the black 

 marginal line ; secondaries with an orange subcostal spot at basal 

 third, the discal band elbowed and interrupted at the submedian 

 vein, a short orange marginal band above the abdominal sinus • a 

 dark grey band (also, less strongly indicated, on the primaries) tinted 

 with orange towards costa, between the submarginal and marginal 

 stripes ; praecaudal spots nearly as above, but the anal spot flecked 

 with metallic leaden scales, the intermediate spot wantino- • body 

 below white, the legs barred with black. Expanse of winsTs 23-25 

 millim. ° 



2d' & 1 $. Wadelai, 29th March, 1887. 



A very distinct and pretty little species. 



A worn and broken female example of an apparently new 

 Virachola, allied to V. unta, was obtained at Stazione Bauri in 

 September 1883. 



