1893.] BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA, 661 



median branch ; a submarginal series of almost confluent olive- 

 brown dashes ; secondaries with three rounded black equidistant 

 spots across the basal area, a black discocellular bar and a double 

 arched series of eight black spots across the disk ; a submarginal 

 undulated line, the first four divisions of which are olive-brown and 

 the remainder saffron-yellow ; beyond this line is a series of more 

 or less defined pale yellow spots, succeeded near anal angle by a 

 single black spot crossed by a metallic blue crescent, a double black 

 spot sprinkled with, metallic blue scales, and a black dot in the angle 

 itself ; body below white. Expanse of wings 40-43 millim. 



$ . Larger tlian the male, the basal area sometimes to beyond 

 the middle suffused with lilac ; a large black spot at the end of 

 tlie discoidal cell of primaries ; primaries below with an additional 

 black discal spot ; in other respects like the male excepting that 

 the female from Zomba has the discocellular bar and the spots at 

 centre of discal series on the secondaries well-defined in black on 

 the upper surface. Expanse of wings 47-54 millim. 



cf cj , Forests of Tiveta and Wasin in coll. B.M. $ 5 , Victoria 

 Nyanza and Zomba; the former in the Museum, the latter in the 

 present series. 



I have long hesitated to describe this very distinct species on 

 account of the more or less dQ,maged condition of all the specimens, 

 and I had hoped Mr. Grose Smith would long since have relieved 

 me from the necessity of doing so, but this I cannot discover that 

 he has done. The species appears to me to come nearest to 0. azureus 

 from Madagascar, of which it is possible that C. hucon, Mab., may 

 be the female, in spite of the extraordinary difference of pattern 

 on the under surface of the primaries. 



87. AZABXrS NATALENSIS. 



Lyccena natalensis, Trimen, South Afr. Butt. ii. p. 77, n. 158 

 (1887). 



Zomba, July 1892. 



88. Tartjcus pulcher. 



Lyccena imlchra, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 524, pi. 10. 

 figs. 7, 8. 



Zomba, July and December 1892, January 1893. 



89. Tatura philippus. 



Hesperia pliilippus, Eabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 283, n. 87 

 (1793). 



$ , Zomba, January 1893. 



90. Tatura c^cxjxtis. 



lolaus ccECulus, Hopffer, Ber. Verh. Ak. Berlin, 1855, p. 642, 

 n. 17 ; Peters's Eeise nach Mossamb. v. p. 402, pi. 25. figs. 12-14 

 (1862). 



$ , Zomba, January 1893. 



