1885.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM SOMALI-LAND. 761 



rose-red in life) ; extremities of the veins black : primaries with a 

 black spot at the end of cell in the male ; the female has a black 

 >-shaped marking in the cell and a black dash at the end ; both 

 sexes have an obhque subapical oval white patch on a black ground : 

 secondaries, owing to their transparency, showing a band just before 

 the middle ; in the females, however, part of the black outer edge 

 of this band actuallj' exists on the upper surface ; this sex also shows 

 a small spot in the cell and a larger spot divided by the upper 

 discocelliilar veinlet ; outer border rather narrowly black, with a 

 paler central stripe : head and thorax tawny, the latter sprinkled 

 with whitish scales ; abdomen of male white banded with sulphur 

 yellow, of the female tawny, banded with black and edged with 

 yellow. Primaries below soft tawny, the male with two black discoidal 

 spots, the female with only the terminal black dash of the upper 

 surface ; an oblique oval subapical white patch edged internally 

 with black ; beyond it and towards the outer margin throughout the 

 veins are black broadly bordered with ash-grey and separated 

 towards the apex solely by short black internervular dashes ; secon- 

 daries white ; basal area spotted witli rose-colour ; a black subbasal 

 transverse dash from the costal margin to the cell and two or three 

 black subbasal spots ; an ash-grey subangulated central band, 

 spotted with tawny and rose-red, margined on both sides with black 

 and enclosing a black spot ; veins upon external area black ; the 

 latter in the male has no decided inner edge, but is of a pale buff 

 tint, shading into white towards outer margin ; in the female, on the 

 other hand, it is sharply defined by a black line and is of a silver- 

 grey tint ; in both sexes this area encloses a series of internervular 

 pyramidal orange dashes and is bounded externally by two black 

 lines. Body of male below white, palpi and legs in front buff, sides 

 of pectus spotted with rose-red ; body of female below entirely 

 difTerent, tlie pectus being white, spotted with golden buff similar to 

 the colour of the palpi and front of legs, and the venter golden 

 yellow with two central longitudinal black lines. Expanse of wings, 

 d 37-43 millim., $ 47 millim. 



Three males. Bunder Maria, 27th April, 1884. — Terhury. 



One female. More than 80 miles S. of Berbera. — Thrupp. 



This marvellously distinct and pretty little species belongs to the 

 group to which the name Telchinia has been given, but the banding 

 of the under surface is quite unique. 



Lyc^nid^. 



13. polyommatus b^ticus. 



Papilio bcBticus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 789, n. 226 (1767). 

 cS ? .—Thrupp. 



14. Catochrysops asopus. 



Lyccena asopus, Hopffer, Ber. Verb. Ak. Berl. \Sf)b, p. 642; 

 Peters' Reise n. Mossamb., Zool. v. p. 410, pi. 26. figs. 13-15 

 (1862). 



One male, var. — Thrupp. 



