1900.] PBOM BEITISH EAST AFBICA. 945 



110. CtCLOPIDES aiJADEISIGNATTJS. 



Cyclopides quadrisic/natus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 670, pi. lx. 

 fig. 9. 



Nairobi forest, March 18 ; Euarka Eiver, April 22, 1900. 



One example shows only three spots in the primaries, the outer 

 subapical spot failing to appear. Mr. Crawshay thinks he took a 

 similar insect on the lower ranges of the Nyika Mountains ; but he 

 certainly never sent this species before, though he did send examples 

 of C. metis with similarly arranged though larger and more 

 numerous spots, and which, in the absence of fresh specimens of 

 C. quadrisignatus, puzzled me somewhat at the time. Since then 

 Mr. Marshall has sent us the same form of C. metis from Karkloof. 



111. Padbaona zeno. 



Pamphila zeno, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 3rd ser ii 

 p. 179 (1864); S. Afr. Butl. in. pi. xii. fig. 2, $ (1889). 



2, Mayi mom flat, Kikuyu, Feb. 10 ; tf, Nairobi forest, 

 March 18 ; $ , Euarka Eiver, April 27, 1900. 



112. GrEGENES LETTEESTEDTI. 



Hesperia lettersteclti, Wallengren, Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Akad 

 Handl. 1857, Lep. Ehop. CafEr. p. 49. 



6 , 2 ? , Eoromo, Oct. 8, Dec. 18, 1899, Jan. 12 & 21 ; 

 d 1 cS , 2 , Nairobi plains, outskirts of forest, March 18 & 28 April 

 12, 1900. r 



S . " Fairly common, though rather difficult to take." 



2 . " Fairly common on Eoromo flat, where the country is 

 open with very short grass." 



2 . Similar remarks, also — " being of dull colour and of most 

 unobtrusive habits, is not very often seen. Its flight is very low 

 a few inches only above ground, and generally limited to a few 

 yards each time." 



113. Paenaea detecta, var. 



Pamphila detecta, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, vol xli 

 p. 141, pi. viii. fig. 12 (1893). 



(J , $ , in coitu, Euarka Eiver, April 25, 1900. 



The specimens now received are rather larger and blacker than 

 S. African examples : neither male nor female shows a spot in the 

 cell of primaries, but this sometimes fails in Southern examples : 

 the female also has seven spots in the discal series, whereas 

 Southern examples generally have only five or six (the first three 

 forming a subapical series). The patterns of this female and of a 

 male obtained by Mr. Crawshay at Kondowi, Lower Nyika, in 

 April 1895, exactly correspond with that of Baoris philippina (the 

 Nyasa specimen having been associated with B.fatuellus). It would 

 therefore seem that P. detecta varies not a little : one of our 

 Mashonaland examples has only two spots on the primaries. 



