1895.] THE COTTNTBT WEST OT LAKE NTASA. 629 



disc of wing rosy blood-red, with diffused ochreous external edge ; 

 external border jet-black, with white spots on the fringe at 

 extremity of internervular folds : body blackish ; eyes coppery 

 bronze, varied with blue-black ; head deep brown, with two white 

 spots before and behind ; pterygodes and front of thorax bronze- 

 green, sides of thorax clothed with copper-brown hair ; base of 

 abdomen hairy, shot with blue and green. Below differing from 

 E. zacldaehii in the regular creamy bands of the primaries, the 

 inner edge of the subapical band slightly concave, instead of 

 elbowed, the lower half of the first band not incised internally ; a 

 large yellow patch filling the end of the cell of secondaries, and a 

 still larger patch or abbreviated band beyond the cell, commencing 

 at subcostal vein in an elongated subpyriform patch, the inferior 

 portion of which is occupied by an acutely angled, almost "1-shaped 

 streak ; from the first subcostal to the third median nervule the 

 band is of a clearer yellow and gradually widens, its inner edge 

 being unequally trisinuated and not accompanied by black spots : 

 the submarginal spots are uniformly smaller than in E. zacldaehii, 

 but the remaining characters are similar. Expanse of wings 

 80 millim. 



S , Lumpi Eiver, Nyika, west of Lake Nyasa, Sept. 19th, 1893. 

 " Cream, velvet, and crimson " {B. C). 



4. MeTACEEMS ROSA. 



§ . Crenis rosa, Hewitson, Ent Month. Mag. xiv. p. 82 (1877). 

 (S . Crenis pecliuelii, Dewitz, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. vol. xli. 

 pi. xxvi. fig. 1 (1879). 



tS ,Deep Bay, 1500 feet altitude, west of Lake Nyasa, March 4th, 

 1894. " Violet Fritillary " {R. C). 



Mr. Crawshay says of this species : — " I have only seen three, 

 during a year's residence here in 1893 and 1894, and long stays 

 in previous years. It is of swift flight, and very difficult to catch, 

 as it perches on trees, high up, out of one's reach as a rale. I at 

 first took this insect for another which I got at Mweru, and 

 which Mr. Butler was kind enough to name after me — viz., Crenis 

 craivshayi ; but, on closer examination, I see it is not the same 

 except in general tone of colour." 



5. Aegtnnis smakagdifeba, sp. n. (Plate XXXV. figs. 1, 2.) 



S. Intermediate in character between A. lathonia and A. 

 eujphrosyne ; size, form, and general pattern of the upper surface of 

 the latter, but the base of the wings with the basal area broadly 

 greyish green, the marginal spots of the primaries pale yellowish 

 towards apex, and the centre of the secondaries spotted almost as in 

 A. lathonia : wings below perfectly intermediate between these two 

 very distinct species, the ground-colour of the apex of the primaries 

 being characteristic of A. euphrosyne, clear yellow with similar 

 ferruginous patches ; the greater portion of the primaries, however, 

 is of a dull tawny hue ; the subbasal D-shaped black marking in the 



