250 DR, A, G, BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Feb. 18, 
6. ACRA SEIS. 
Acrea seis, Feisthamel, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1850, p. 247. 
Somaliland (Capt. Nurse). 
In Mr. Kirby’s Catalogue this species was erroneously recorded 
as a variety of A. mahela; consequently it has since been described 
by Mr. Grose Smith as A. matuapa, by Messrs, Godman and 
Salvin as A. calyce, and by Vieillot as A. mhondana; it is distri- 
buted over Africa from West to East, and we have one example 
labelled South; the ground-colour varies from almost wholly tawny 
(probably rose-red in life) to an insect having the primaries almost 
entirely smoky brown. A. seis is the African representative of 
the Asiatic A. violw, which it nearly resembles both in form and 
pattern. 
7. CATOCHRYSOPS CONTRACTA, 
Lampides contracta, Butler, P. ZS. 1880, p. 406, pl. xxxix. 
fig. 3. 
3 @, Shaik Othman, 3rd March (Col. Yerbury), 21st April, 
1895 (Capt. Nurse). 
These Arabian examples do not differ at all from those obtained 
at Candahar, Beloochistan, and Karachi. 
8. AZANUS GAMRA. 
Lycena gamra, Lederer, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1855, 
p. 189, pl. i. fig. 3. 
3 Q, Shaik Othman, 24th February, 3rd March ; Aden, 7th and 
18th March, 1895 (Col. Verbury). 
I think it probable that this may be the species referred to in 
my former paper on Lepidoptera from Aden as ‘A. sigillata,” the 
specimens being in Col. Swinhoe’s collection: the two species are 
nearly allied, but A. sigillata is a small (probably dry-season) form 
of A. natalensis, and shows black spots and no parallel brown 
bars on the under surface of the dise of secondaries; whereas in 
A, gamra the brown bars replace the extra black spots. 
9. LycHNESTHES AMARAH. 
Polyommatus amarah, Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss. vi. p. 384, pl. il. 
figs. 5, 6 (1847). 
$, Shaik Othman, 24th February, 1895 (Col. Yerbury). 
The stronger form of wing and the two pencils of elongated 
scales from the fringe of secondaries show this to be a Lycenesthes 
and not an -Azanus ; the pattern of the under surface is deceptively 
similar in the two genera. 
10. ZizBRA GAIKA. 
Lycena gaika, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. i, p. 403 
(1862). . 
3, Aden, 19th February, 1895 (Col. Yerbury). 
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