908 BB. A* G. BUTLEE OK BtTTTEEFLIEB [NoV. 29, 



35. Phasis theeo Linn. 



Cape Town, 5th October, 1896. 



A very dwarfed example of this rare species. 



36. ASLAUQA MAESHAILI, Sp. n. 



2 . Allied to A. purpurascens, Holland ; with more pronounced 

 anal lobe to secondaries : upper surface altogether darker, vinous 

 brown suffused with blackish, with faint purple gloss on basal half ; 

 fringes dull white with dusky central band, blacker and somewhat 

 irregular on primaries and interrupting the outer white edging here 

 and there, notably at the extremity of the anal lobe of secondaries, 

 where it becomes quite black : thorax slate-blackish ; head and 

 abdomen mostly brown : under surface fleshy clay-brown, irrorated 

 with darker brown ; internal area of primaries greyish ; fringes 

 rather less strongly banded than above : pectus and base of venter 

 dull white, legs and remainder of venter paler brown than the 

 wings \ Expanse of wings 32 millim. 



Salisbury, 4th June, 1898. 



In the West- African A. purpurascens there is a well-defined 

 brown line across the under surface of the wings and the upper 

 surface is considerably paler. 



37. Thbstoe peotumntts Linn. 

 Simonstown, 30th December, 1896. 



38. Al(eides malageida Trim. 

 Signal Hill, 22nd February, 1897. 



39. Mteina ficedula Trim. 



Salisbury, 26th February and 6th March, 1898. 



40. APHsr^trs erikssonii Trim. 



c? , Gadzima, 13th September, 1895. 



This fine and rare species is quite new to the Museum ; it is a 

 typical ^ji/aice us, although, strangely enough, the usual silver patches 

 are wholly absent from the under surface. 



41. ViEACHOLA LITIA Ellug. 



c? , Salisbury, 15th May, 1898. 



Papilionid^. 



PlEEINiE. 



42. Mtlotheis agathina Cram. 

 S , Salisbury, 19th May, 1898. 



' The sides of the abdomen appear to be banded with black, but this may 

 have been produced by grease. 



