774 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [NoV. 3, 



45. Belenois lordaca. 



Pieris lordaca, Walker, Entom. v. p. 48. 



Three males, two females. 2nd January. — Thrupp. 



Only one male was taken less than eighty miles south of Berbera. 



46. Synchloe distorta, sp. n. (Plate XLVII. fig. 12.) 



2 . Pale sulphur-yellow ; all the nervures above greyish, owing 

 probably to the semitransparency of the wings, which allows the 

 pattern "of the under surface to be seen ; costal margin of primaries 

 blackish ; a cuneiform and somewhat curved black patch at the end 

 of the cell, uniting on the third median branch with the apical 

 border, which is formed as in S. hellica, and encloses similar oval 

 spots of the ground-colour ; the black spot below the first median 

 branch of *S^. hellica is here only indicated by a minute blackish dot, 

 and the secondaries show no more of the dentate-sinuate submarginal 

 line than in the male of that species. Below, the wings are decidedly 

 yellower than above ; all the veins are grey-brown irrorated with 

 yellow, which gives them an olive tint : primaries with the patch at 

 the end of the cell formed as above, confluent, with a greyish basi- 

 costal border, not black as above, but greyish sprinkled with yellow 

 atoms ; two paler but similarly coloured patches, representing the 

 inner portion of the apical border, but placed further from the 

 margin than in S. hellica ; submedian dot rather larger thnn above : 

 secondaries with the veins more broadly bordered than on the pri- 

 maries, and connected by a submarginal dentate-sinuate yellow- 

 sprinkled grey stripe. Expanse of wings SSrailhm. 



One female. More than eighty miles south of Berbera. — Thrupp. 



Only one female was obtained, which, from its small size and 

 narrow wings, I at first imagined to be only a starved specimen of 

 some well-known species. Upon comparing it, however, with S, 

 hellica and allies, it is clearly seen to be perfectly distinct, the dark 

 veins of the primaries being peculiar to it. The specimen is in all 

 probability somewhat starved, which would account for its small 

 size and narrow wings ; but the other characters would be amply 

 sufficient to distinguish it specifically. 



47- Herp^nia melanarge, sp. n. 



(S . Nearest ioH. tritogenia: smaller, wings blacker, pale markings 

 of a uniform cream-colour ; oblique patch at end of cell less irregular, 

 subapical spots larger ; central submarginal spot smaller ; dot at 

 extremity of first median interspace obsolete ; oblique band from 

 internal margin much nnrrower, more or less divided above the first 

 median branch ; black band from abdominal margin of secondaries 

 differently shaped, widest instead of narrowest at this margin, its 

 inner edge forming a slight regular arch to the subcostal vein ; outer 

 border broader ; apical area of primaries and whole of secondaries 

 below tinted with pink, the markings bronze-brown (not yellowish 

 brown) ; the pale bands being narrower, and the darker ones con- 

 sequently broader than in H. tritogenia. Expanse of wings 

 44 millim. 



