976 DR. A. 6. BTJTLEE ON BTITTEIlFI,rES [NoV. 28, 



6. On a small Collection of Butterflies from the Nandi 

 District, Uganda Protectorate, Eastern side of Lake 

 Victoria ; made by Captain Hobart, of the Grenadier 

 Guards. By Arthur G. Butler, Ph.D., F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., &c. ' 



[Keceived November 1, 1899.] 



The collection of which this is au account is small but 

 interesting, the whole of the specimens having been captured by 

 Capt. Hobart on the march. Among them is a Cymothoe which 

 appears to be quite new, and of considerable interest from its 

 affinity to Western forms ; also Planema j^oggei S , and Acrcea 

 leucographa, an extremely beautiful variation of the Western 

 Acrcea adniatJia. 



NvMPHALID.i;. 



1. AmATJEIS ALBIMACULATA Butl. 



The white spots on the primaries are reduced in size in all the 

 specimens, but we have similar examples in tlTe Museum 

 collection. 



2. Chaeases candiope Godt. 

 One male example. 



3. Cymothoe hobaeti, sp. n. 



The male above vermilion suffused with carmine, the costal 

 and outer margins narrowly black ; primaries with a small apical 

 patch and one subapical spot, sometimes continued indistinctly as 

 a submarginal series ; secondaries with well-defined submarginal 

 black spots commencing with a sagittate spot at apex and ter- 

 minating in an obtusely biangulated linear marking above anal 

 angle; abdominal border pale brown; body bronzy bro«Ti, the palpi 

 and under surface of antennal club tawny. The under surface is 

 of a sandy-brownish hue, with fleshy and weak ohvaceous change- 

 able tints ; the general pattern is that of C. uselcla, the markings 

 on the basal half being sharply outlined in black ; the nearly 

 straight dividing line beyond the middle is dark rich brown in 

 the type, but weakly defined in a second smaller male ; the series 

 of A-shaped markings beyond the dividing stripe are alternately 

 pale pearly pink and olivaceous greyish, the outer series of the 

 latter tint uniting into a continuous wavy submarginal line dotted 

 with blackish between the nervures ; the femora are whitish. 

 Expanse of wings 42 to 58 millim. 



The female nearly resembles that sex of C. adela, excepting that 

 the basal area is internally suffused with olivaceous greyish and 

 externally with pale sandy yellowish, the discal series of sagittate 

 markings is weaker in the primaries and very much more so in 

 the secondaries ; on the under surface the general appearance is 



