112 DE. A. G. BUTLBE ON BtJTTBEFMES [Jan. 14, 



19. Pteameis caedui. 



Papilio cardui, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 276 (1761). 

 J , Chilindi (8 miles S . of Karonga), "W. coast of Lake Nyasa, 

 March Ist, 1895. 



"Painted Lady" (iJ. a.). 



20. HyPANAETIA SOHffiNBIA. 



Euretna schaeneia, Trimeu, Trans. Ent. See. London, 1879, p. 329. 

 d , Nyankowa Mt., 6500 ft. alt., April 9th, 1895. 



" Scarlet Admiral " (R. C). 



The colouring of Hypanarda must be very fugitive ; for speci- 

 mens never come to hand with scarlet bands. As I have already 

 suggested, this will probably prove to be a seasonal form of 

 H. hippomenes. 



21. PSBTJDAEGTNNIS HEGEMONB. 



Argynnis hegemone, Grodart. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 258 (1819). 



Jaera duodeeimpicnctata, Snellen, Ti jd. voor Ent. 2nd ser. part 7, 

 pi. i. figs. 1, 2 (1872). 



d, Kondowi, Lower Nyika, W. of Lake Nyasa, April 5th; 

 $ , Kondowi, 4110 feet alt., April 11th, 1895. 



" Silver-tipped Fritillary. 5 full of bright green eggs " (R. G.). 



Nyasa-land appears to be the headquarters of this rare butterfly, 

 which for many years was unrepresented in the Museum collection ; 

 it never comes in numbers, but collections from Nyasa usually 

 contain one or, rarely, two examples, and, as a rule, of the male 

 sex. 



22. Hamanumida DjEdalus. 



Papilio dcedcdus, Eabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 482 (1775). 

 (S , Lower Nyika, W. of Lake Nyasa, Feb. 2nd, 1895. 

 " Dark grey and white Fritillary " {R. 0.). 



23. NePTIS AGATHA. 



Papilio agaiha, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. cccxxvii. A, B (1782). 

 cj, Henga, W. of Lake Nyasa, Jan. 30th; $, Cheni-Cheni 

 Mt., 5700 feet alt., Nyika, April 17th, 1895. 



" White Admiral. $ full of bright green ova " {R. 0.). 



24. Neitis inoongeua, sp. n. (Plate VI. fig. 2.) 



5 . Upper surface dark olivaceous brown, the fringes black at 

 the extremities of the veins, white between them ; primaries with 

 a minute subcostal white point near the end of the cell, two 

 (elongated) immediately beyond the cell, and a fourth below the 

 latter in the lower radial interspace ; seven white spots in three 

 groups crossing the disc much as in N. marpessa — three subapical 

 (the first small), two on the median interspaces, and two, separated 

 by the submedian vein, near external angle : secondaries crossed 

 beyond the middle by a tolerably regular white belt, separated by 



