422 DR, A. G, BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Mar. 21, 



22. Castalius hintza Trimen. 

 2 , Machako's, 2nd July, 1898. 



23. LYCiENESTHEs LioDES Hewits. 

 c?, Kikiiyu, 19th July, 1898. 



24. I(XCj4:nesthes amakah Lefebvre. 



d d , Machako's, 28th May, 1898. 

 " Taken on bush." (B. C.) 



25. ScoLiTANTiDES STELLATA Trimen. 



d d 5 ? J Ngongo, 6450 feet, Masailand, 3rd and 8th August, 

 1889. 



" Here, at JNTgongo, there is a tiny speckled grey ' blue,' coloured 

 and marked very like the ' Grizzled Skipper,' which I have never 

 seen before, and which is very common." {R. C.) 



On the labels Mr. Crawshay notes two as having been taken 

 from the same blue flowers with a single swoop of the net. It is 

 evident that he has forgotten having captured two examples of 

 the same species in Nyasaland ; but, considering the extent and 

 variety of his collections, this is by no means surprising. 



26. ScoLiTANTiDES CRAWSHAYi, sp. n. (Plate XXV. figs. 2, 2a.) 



cJ . Allied to S. metfiymna, but smaller, the basal area sprinkled 

 with silvery grey-blue scales ; primaries below with the white- 

 edged macular bands narrower, composed of rather small confluent 

 spots scarcely darker than the ground-colour ; secondaries blackish 

 at base, followed by two subparallel series of dark brown white- 

 edged spots, the outer series united, by a conical spot filhng the 

 base of the second median interspace, to a broad internally 

 serrated brown patch which tapers to costa near apex ; a well-defined 

 V-shaped white stripe partly bounding internally an uneven sub- 

 marginal sei'ies of more or less A-shaped dark brown markings ; 

 the usual black spot enclosing a metallic silver-blue crescent on the 

 first median interspace : head below white, terminal joint of palpi 

 and distal fringe black ; pectus and front legs whitish, tarsi greyish ; 

 remaining legs blackish above, whitish below ; venter mostly dark 

 grev, whitish in the centre at base. Expanse of wings 30 millim. 



Machako's, 3rd July, 1898. 



About the size of S. battus, but much nearer to S. methymna. 



27. EvERES KEDONGA. (Plate XXV. figs. 3, 3 a.) 



cJ . Everes kedonga, Grose-Smith, Novit. Zool. v. p. 357 (1898). 



2 . Black-brown above with purplish and bronze reflections ; 

 the basal area of the primaries sprinkled with ashy scales ; a sub- 

 marginal snow-white dash at external angle continuous with an 

 ill-defined submarginal ashy line ; secondaries with the interno- 



