632 KB. A. G. BUTLEE 01!* BrTTERPLiEs moM [June 18, 



■wings, having on the left-hand -n-ing somewhat the outline oE the 

 letter P ; fringe of abdominal margin of secondaries sordid white ; 

 two black submarginal spots above the anal lobes, that above the 

 taUed lobe large and enclosing a conspicuous metallic ultramarine 

 transverse spot, that above the inner lobe partly enclosing a metallic 

 golden-green spot, tinted along its upper edge with blue ; tail black, 

 tipped with white : body blackish, clothed in front ^^•ith slaty-grey 

 hairs, behind, but especially at the sides, ^^ith silvery bro^^•nish hairs, 

 abdominal segments very slenderly edged with wliitish ; antennae 

 black, slenderly ringed vrith. white to the base of the clavus : palpi 

 long, black with a white lateral stripe, the broad fringes formed of 

 mixed «"hite and black hairs ; pectus and venter white ; legs 

 ^^"hite, barred with black. Wings below chalky white : primaries 

 with an 8-shaped black basal patch (which in the female becomes a 

 3), three clay-reddish bands commencing in partly blackish annular 

 markings on the costa, uniting into a broad argillaceous patch 

 below the cell; all the other markings very nearly as in 

 U. cordatum, Sharpe, but much heavier in character, tlie fourth 

 band of the primaries being also continued across these wings by 

 the addition of two argillaceous spots almost touching the outer 

 edge of the patch of that colour ; the black spot above the tail of 

 secondaries united on its outer edge to a metallic tricoloured 

 U-shaped patch, the projecting parts of which are blue, and the 

 enclosed portion fiery copper, shading at the edges into green ; 

 anal spot edged on one side by an oblique blue and copper dash. 

 Expanse of wings 42 milUm. 



$ slightly larger, more rufous, almost argillaceous, the primaries 

 with the whole surface, excepting the costal and external areas, 

 brilliant MotyJw-hlne ; a transverse narrow 8-shaped bar across 

 the cell, a quadrate patch at the end of the cell, a series of six 

 subconfluent spots across the disc, interrupted at second median 

 nervule, and the outer border black : secondaries with an annular 

 series of blackish spots as follows — two closing the cell, three in a 

 curved series beyond the cell, and one near the base of the 

 subcostal areole ; a few other spots vaguely showing through 

 from the under surface ; margin of wing blackish ; fringes, metallic 

 spots, tails, and pattern of under surface as in the male. Expanse 

 of wings 45 millim. 



Kasungu Mountain, Nyika, west of Lake Xyasa, Sept. 2nd, 

 1893. " Giant Blue " (E. C). 



Mr. Craw shay has the following note on this lovely species : — 

 " No. 2 is a Blue, also from Kasungu, and from nearly the top of 

 the mountain. It seems fairly plentiful, at least I saw perhaps 

 ten or a dozen, of which I took four. It is of rapid, buzzing, 

 humming-bird, moth-Uke flight, and feeds restlessly, hovering 

 almost the whole time. The sunny side of flowering trees and 

 shrubs is its favourite haunt ; as long as the sun is bright it is very 

 restless and active. It is a Blue, and yet does not feed in the 

 deliberate way in which the majority of Blues feed ; its wings are 

 pever at rest," 



