842 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [Nov. 17, 
This pretty species varies a good deal on both surfaces; the 
black longitudinal streak on the primaries above is frequently 
divided longitudinally by an ochreous median vein, and trans- 
versely by an orange-ochreous bar just before the end of the cell; 
the ochreous longitudinal stripe of the secondaries is sometimes 
expanded so as to leave only a narrow black costal border; on 
the under surface there is occasionally a subapical decreasing series 
of five cream-coloured spots divided only by the nervures (which 
are dull orange), and the secondaries are cream-coloured, with 
orange-tawny veins and internal streak: intergrades between the 
extremes occur. 
116. CycLopIDES PEREXCELLENS. (Plate XLII. fig. 2.) 
Cyclopides perexcellens, Butler, Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, 
vol, xviii. p. 161 (1896). 
Kasungu Mountain, 7425 feet alt., Nyika, March 2nd and 5th, 
1896. 
117. CYCLOPIDES QUADRISIGNATUS. 
Cyclopides quadrisignatus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 670, pl. Ix. 
fig. 9. 
Kasungu Mountain, 6200 feet alt., March 1st; 7425 feet, 
March 2nd, 3rd, and 6th, Nyika. 
Every fresh collection brings additional evidence of the varia- 
bility of this species. The example obtained on March 6th has the 
two obliquely-placed orange spots just beyond the middle of the 
primaries unusually large and confluent, two small costal spots 
being only separated from them by the subcostal nervure. At 
first sight this variety might be taken for a modification of 
C. midas, but it is net only too dark, both in ground-colour and 
spots, but the inner of the two costal spots (which doubtless 
represents the basal orange dash in C. midas) is much too far trom 
the base to be characteristic of that species, whilst the absence of 
the spot in the discoidal cell of the secondaries is characteristic of 
C. quadrisignatus. 
118. CycLoprprEs MIDAS. 
Cyclopides midas, Butler, P. Z. 8. 1893, p. 671; 1895, p. 265, 
pl. xv. tig. 6. 
Chuona River (Mwewe’s), Unyika, August 26th, 1895. 
The damaged aberrant examples recorded under this species in 
my paper on Mr. Scott Elliot’s collection prove to be extreme 
forms of the preceding species: I had thought it impossible that 
C. quadrisignatus could vary so much. C. midas is tolerably 
constant. 
119. GnGENES LETTERSTEDTI, 
Hesperia letterstedti, Wallengren, Kongl. Svensk. Vetensk.-Akad. 
Handl. 1857, Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 49. 
