1893.] BEITISH CENTEAIi AJPBICA. 645 



alcippoides was in the Zomba series, it is only reasonable to suppose 

 that L. alcippus also occurs there. 



5. MELA^-ITIS SOL^VIfBEA. 



Papilio solandra, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 500, n. 244 (1775). 



Zomba, December 1892 and January 1893. 



This is one of the forms of M. leda which is not found in India. 

 As already stated, I think the Indian type is, to all intents and 

 purposes, a species distinct from the riifescent form named by 

 Linnteus : when two variable and aUied species exhibit similarity 

 witliout identitj/ in one of their many sports, they must still be 

 considered distinct. 



6. Melanitis libta. 



Melanitis lihja, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. x. 

 p. 405 (1882). 



2 , Zomba, January 1893. 



The colouring of the under surface evidently differs from that 

 of the type ; but, in a genus in which both the colouring and 

 pattern of that surface vary indefinitely, this is unimportant, 



7. GXOPHODES DIVEESA. 



Gnopliodes diversa, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. 

 p. 333 (1880). 



Zomba, July 1892. 



8. MtCALESIS (MoifOTEICHTIS) EHACOTIS. 



Mycalesis rhacotis, Hewitson, Ex. Butt, iii., Mi/c. pi. 8. fig. 50 

 (1866). 



Lake Mweru ; Zomba, July 1892, January 1893. 



9. Mycalesis (Monotkichtis) eusieus. 



Mycalesis eusirus, HopfEer, Ber. Verb. Ak. Berl. 1855, p. 641, 

 n. 13. 



Lake Mweru ; Zomba, July 1892, January 1893. 



I think it doubtful whether this is more than a form of the 

 preceding species, which, however, it would of course supersede 

 if not distinct. 



10. Mycalesis (Monoteichtis) mieiam. 



Papilio miriam, Eabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 242, n. 754 (1793). 



Zomba, July and December 1892. 



This species varies considerably in size and the greater or less 

 regularity of the outer line of the central belt ; examples from the 

 "West Coast of Africa in the Museum Collection show a more 

 dentate-sinuate character in this line, especially on the primaries, 

 than those in the present series ; but in all other details they 

 correspond. 



