1899.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. - 667 



25. Eteres kedonga Grose-Smith. (Plate LXX. fig. 4.) 



c? c?, Plains N. of the Tana Eiver, Kikuyu, 5th Janviai-y, 1899. 



Mr. Crawshay sent us the female of this extremely pretty 



species in his last collection (see P. Z. S, 1899, pi. xiv. figs. 3, 3 a). 



26. Tarucus FtiNius Fabr. 



2, Athi Valley, 16th December, 1898; 6, Ndya, 4500 feet, 

 Kikuyu, 16th January, 1899. 



Of the female IVIr. Crawshay observes — " Common, and all 

 evidently newly emerged." 



27. ZizEEA KNYSNA Trim. 



$ , Slopes of Nthatha Hill, 4700 feet, Kitwi, 31st December, 

 1898 ; d , $ , Muthambi Eiver, 4500 feet, Ndya, 8th & 10th 

 January, 1899. 



28. ZizERA GAiKA Trim. 



c? d , Tana Eiver, 3800 feet, 2nd January ; Neugia, Kitwi, 7th 

 February, 1899. 



Of the second example Mr. Crawshay observes — " The smallest 

 butterfly I have ever seen." It is a starved specimen. 



29. LyCjEnesthes amarah Lefeb. 



? , Slopes of Nthatha Hill, Kitwi, 4700 feet, 31st December, 

 ] 898 ; d d , Plains N. of the Tana Eiver, 5th January, Tana 

 Eiver, 3800 feet, 16th January, 1899. 



30. Caoyreus lingeus Cram. 



d d , Clue to exact locality and date lost. 



31. PhLYARIA VIRGO Butl. 



2 , Muthambi Eiver, 4500 feet, Ndya, 10 January, 1899. 



" The only specimen I have seen in these parts, and like, if not 

 identical with, another which I used to take in the mountains of 

 Nyika" (B.C.). 



According to ProP. Aurivillius this is the female of the West 

 Coast P. heritsia, but some of the details of marking make me 

 hesitate to accept this dictum until I have seen East-African males. 

 In my opinion the border of the secondaries is too narrow and 

 the markings on the under sarface of these wings too feeble for 

 P. heritsia : I may prove to be wrong, but I very strongly object 

 to putting species together by guess. 



32. Chloeoselas azubea, sp. n. (Plate LXX. figs. 2, 3.) 



Intermediate between 0. tamaniba from Suakin and C. esmeralda 

 from Somali-land ; evidently nearest to the former. It is consider- 

 ably larger than C. esmeralda, the shot-colouring on the upperside 

 of the wings being glistening deep sky-blue instead of emerald 

 shaded with blue : in the primaries this colouring is restricted to 

 the outer half of the internal area and the internal margin nearly 



