10 MB. 0. T. A. PEEL AND OTHERS ON [Jail. 23, 



Fam. Muscidz 

 Glossina Wied. 

 Glossina longipennis Corti. 



Glossina longipennis, Corti, Aun. Mus. Civ. Genov. xxxv. (1895) 

 p. 138. 



A single $ , West Somaliland, June 23-25, 1895. 



Mr. Peel's note on this specimen says : — " Fly-belt sharply 

 defined from Biermuddo to Boholo Deno." 



This species, which is the Somaliland Tsetse-fly, was described 

 from a male specimen obtained by Capt. Vittorio Bottego in June, 

 1893, on the Uelmal River, in the Boran Galla country. The 

 British Museum possesses four examples from Somaliland (the 

 exact locality not being known), collected and presented by 

 Mr. Th. Greenfield. 



Corti states (loc. cit. p. 139) that G. longipennis is " related to 

 G. tacJiinoides, Westw., but differs in having the antennae yellowish 

 and not brown." It is, however, much more closely allied to 

 G. tabaniformis, Westw., in which the length and size of the wings 

 are even greater. 



3. LEPIDOPTERA EHOPALOCEEA. 

 By P. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., Fellow of Wadhain College, Oxford. 



Danain^e. 

 Limnas chrysipptts Linn. 



Twenty-two specimens : 16 <$ , 6 $ . It is remarkable that not 

 one of these is of the type form, 14 <J and 6 $ being var. Mugii, in 

 which the black and white of the apical portion of the fore wing 

 are wanting ; while the remaining 2 <5 are var. dorippus, which 

 resembles var. Mugii in every respect except that both surfaces of 

 the hind wing are more or less suffused with white as in the 

 alcippoides form of the type. The dates and places of capture 

 were as follows : Hargaisa (North-west Somaliland), April 25-28, 

 1895, Jclugii, 4 <J, 1 J, dorippus, 1 S ; Arigumeret, Farfanyer 

 District (Central Somaliland), June 20, 1S97, in thick bush, Mugii, 

 4 c? , dorippus, 1 S; Haud, Odewein (North Central Somaliland), 

 June 23, 1897, in dry river-bed with thickly wooded banks, 

 Mugii, 1 d\ 1 2 ; Hand District, Eyk (North Central Somaliland), 

 July 2, 1897, Mugii, 1 <5, 1 §; Habr Heshi, Marehan Country 

 (East Central Somaliland), Aug. 26, 1897, in thick bush, Mugii, 

 4 c?,3 ?. 



The ground-colour of the present specimens varies, the majority 

 being of the usual light reddish amber seen in Oriental specimens 

 of the type. Two or three of the Mugii are of a pale dull fawn, 

 and one or two approach the duller and darker ground-tint of the 

 African chrysippus. These differences are not sexual, and there 

 are transitional forms. The marginal white spots of the hind wing 



