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34. AljENa amazotila, Boisd. 



Tuf!;ela Eiver, 2500 feet, near Weenen, 1st, 2nd, 3i-d, 5th, 6th, 

 aad 10th November, 1896. 



The examples obtained on the 10th were coupled. 



35. PoLTOMMATUS B.ETicus, Linn. 

 Frere, 3800 feet, 8th December, 1896. 



36. Catochbtsops asopus, Hopffer. 



Tugela Eiver, 2500 feet, 3rd, 14th, and 15th November, 1896. 



37. Catochbtsops pboceea, Trimen. 



2 , Estcourt, 4000 feet, 17th October, 1896. 



" So far as I am a,ware only twelve specimens have ever been 

 taken as yet, and all in this neighbourhood — five by J. M. Hutch- 

 inson 13 years ago, on which Trimen founded the species, two by 

 C. W. Morrison, and five by myself this season." 



38. Ca'xochetsops paesimon, Trimen (not Fabricius). 



d", Chuga's Hill, near Weenen, 4000 feet, 13th November, 1896. 

 The lilac tint of the upperside is wanting in this species. 



39. Catochbysops pateicia, Trimen. 



Estcourt, 27th September and ISth October ; Tugela Eiver, near 

 AVeenen, 28th October, 1st, 3rd, 11th, and 15th November, 1896. 



I expressed the belief, to Mr. Marshall, that this would prove 

 to be onlj^ a form of C. 2U(rsimon ; but he writes : — 



" I cannot concur in your opinion that this is conspecifie with 

 C.parsimon. Both their habits and distribution differ, and as they 

 are both wet-season species, they cannot be seasonal forms." 

 The males appear to be readily separable, but the females of the 

 two species are so similar that Mr. Marshall himself hesitated 

 respecting one of the specimens forwarded, labelling it G. patricia ? 

 However, his note would settle the matter of the distinctness of 

 the two (which, by the way, I never associated together in the 

 Collection), provided that the C. parsimon of Natal were the same 

 as that of the West coast, which I do not admit : the example sent 

 by Mr. Marshall wants the lilac colouring of the AVestern insect. 



The 0. parsimon of Trimen certainly is not the Eabrician species, 

 which we only have from Sierra Leone and Lagos. The type re- 

 ferred to by Fabricius himself as in the Banksian collection from 

 Sierra Leone is undoubtedly the female of our Sierra Leone species : 

 it is a faded example, showing but little blue-shot colouring, and 

 therefore Fabricius described it as brown. The diagnosis indeed 

 fairly well fits his type, although the fuller description was prob- 

 ably taken from a male nearer to Trimen's C parsimon, but 

 immaculate above ; we have such a male from the Scott Elliot 

 collection (Salt Lake to AVawamba). The female type is again 

 indicated at the end of the Fabrician description, " subtus — posticae 

 ad basin punctis quinque atris, anntilo albo cinctis " ; also — "Variat 



