732 DB. A, 6. BtTTLBB ON LEPIDOPTERA [NoV, 19, 



almost obliterated, sho-wing only above the spot at external angle 

 as a diffused ochreous nebula, the spot referred to also ochreous ; 

 belt across secondaries ochreous. 



2 , Kampala and Uganda, Feb. 1894. 



Although Mr. Eotbschild tells me he believes this may belong 

 to a distinct species, I feel tolerably sure that it will prove to be 

 only a form of Planema lycoa ; the allied P. johnstoni varies in 

 much the same way ; the chief apparent difference really consists in 

 the union of the subapical spots into an oblique band, but one of our 

 female examples shows this character in the white spots. I am 

 fully prepared to find, when these African Acrcein(B are better 

 understood, that the example set by Mr. Trimen in associating 

 P. esebria and P.protea as varieties will have to be followed through- 

 out this section of the genus. 



55. POLTOMilATUS B.ETICUS. 



Papilio bceticus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 789 (1767). 

 A mere fragment from Euwenzori, 5600 feet. 



56. Catochetsops paesimon. 



Papilio parsimon, Tabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 526 (1775). 



^ , Salt Lake to Wawamba. 



We have two females of this species from the typical locality — 

 Sierra Leone — in the British Museum collection. Speaking of the 

 distinction between his Lyccena patricia, and L. parsimon, my good 

 friend Trimen says : — " the only constant distinction being in the 

 subbasal row of spots on the underside of the hind wing, which 

 in patricia has one spot less than in parsimon, as the third 

 (between median and submedian nervures) is wanting." Now, 

 Mr. Trimen mentions one of our females from Sierra Leone as 

 belonging to C. parsimon and yet it and our second specimen 

 from that locality have only three spots in the subbasal row on 

 the underside of the hind wings. The male now received agrees 

 perfectly with the male described by Mr. Trimen on the upper 

 surface, but again has only three spots in the subbasal row on the 

 under surface*. I have not the least doubt myself, though it 

 requires to be proved by breeding, that C patricia is a seasonal 

 form of C. parsimon and that the number of spots in the subbasal 

 row on the underside varies. 



57. Etebes jobates. 



Lyccena johates, Hopffer, Peters' Eeise n. Mossamb. pi. xxvi. 

 figs. 9, 10 (1862). 



Kampala and L^ganda, Feb. 1894. 



' There is, howeTer, one peculiarity about this example which is significant : 

 on the left-hand side of the under surface the third spot is missing, as in 

 C. patricia ; but on the right-hand wing the first spot is absent and the third 

 is present ; we also have an example from Natal in which the third spot is 

 klmost gone. 



