1899.] BUTTEEFLIES FROM MtTSCAT. 811 



from examples obtained at Candahar ; it appears to hare a wide 

 range. 



6. Tarucus theophbastus. 



Uesperia tlieopltrastus. Fabricius, Ent. Syst. 3. i. p. 281 (1793). 

 A fair series, but in poor condition. 

 This again is a wide-ranging species. 



7. Ltcm;nesthes amakah. 



Poh/onwiatus amarah, Lefebvre, Voy. i\byss. vi. p. 381, pi. xi. 

 figs. 5, 6 (1847). 



A rather small and worn pair. 



8. ZlZERA GAIKA. 



Lycmui f/aika, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. i. p. 403 

 (1862). 



Seven rather worn examples. 



This is a common and widely distributed African and Arabian 

 insect. 



9. Plebeius TKOCHILL'S. 



Lycoena trochilus, Freyer, Neuere Beitr. v. pi. 440. fig. 1 (1844). 

 Three examples. 



10. VlRACHOLA ANTALUS. 



Dipsas antalus, HopfPer, Monatsb. k. Akad. AViss. Berlin, 1855, 

 p. 641. 



Sithon antalus, Hopffer in Peters' Ileise n. Mossamb., Ins. p. 400, 

 pi. XXV. figs. 7-9 (1862). 



2 , slightly broken ; very deep in colour. 



This species is common over a considerable part' of Africa, 

 Madagascar, and the Island of Johanna : it varies somewhat on 

 both surfaces as regards the depth of colour above and definition 

 of the markings below. 



PaI'ILIONID.E. 



11. TeRACOLUS CALAIS, Tar. dyxamene. 



I'ontia di/namene, King, Symb. Phys. pi. vi. figs. 15, 16 (1829). 

 One worn male. 



12. Teracoj.us phisadia. 



Pieris phisadia, Godart, Enc. Metb. ix. p. 132 (1819). 



Three males, two of them much shattered. 



An interesting fact respecting this species is that, whereas all 

 the Arabian males show a wet phase of under-surface and the 

 Arabian females a dry phase, the same species from >."orthern 

 Africa sometimes shows a dry phase in the male ; I ha-\e not seen 

 enough African examples to enable me to say whether a wet phase 

 of female ever occurs. 



