1896.] FKOM AEABIA AND SOMALILAND. 249 



quash the suggestion of generic separation at once, even had it 

 not been shown that the same species, when taken in widely 

 distant countries, differs so completely in larval colouring as to be 

 unrecognizable in this stage of its existence. For example, larvte 

 of Agrotis c-nigrum in Ceylon are altogether dissimilar from 

 European larvae of the same species ; the moths, however, are 

 absolutely indistinguishable. 



List of the Species of Rhopalocera. 



1. LlMNAS CHRTSIPPUS. 



$ . Var. dorippm, Klug, Svmb. Phys. pi. 48. figs. 1-4 (1832). 

 cJ . Var. Uugii, Butler, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 758. 

 S.Lahej, 28th March, 1895; cJ , Aden, 6th February, 1895 

 (Col. Yerbury). 



2. Tpthijvia astekopb. 



Ilippaixliia asterope, Klug, Syrab. Phys. pi. 20. figs. 11-14 (1832). 



Shaik Othman, 10th February, and Lahej, 5th to 10th March, 

 1895 {Col. Terhunj); 14th February, 8th and 24th May, 1894; 

 Zaila, SomalUand, 28th May and 4th June, 1895 (CVipi. Nurse). 



3. JUNONIA HEBE. 



Junonia here, Lang, Entomologist, p. 206 (1884). 

 d , Lahej, 26th May, 1894 (Ca/j<. Nurse) ; 2 , 14th March, 1895 

 (Col. Yerbury), 



4. HyPOHMNAS MISIPPU8. 



Papilio misippus, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 2G4 (1764). 



Typical female (resembling Lininas chrysippus). 



Aden, 12th October (Capt. Nurse). 



Yar. alcippoides (resembling L. alcippoides). 



Aden, 27th February, 1895 (Col. Yerhury and Capt. Nurse). 



Var. with white on secondaries (resembling L. dorippus). 



Aden, 2Sth February (Col. Yerhury). 



Var. between typical H. misippus, J , and var. inaria. 

 Shaik Othman, 7th April ; Zaila, Somaliland, 23rd May, 1895 

 (Capt. Nurse). 



Var. inaria (resembling L. Mugii). 



Aden, 24th September, 1894 (Capt. Nurse). 



The whole of the known variations of the female of this species 

 are therefore represented in these two small collections, all the 

 forms having been taken either at or near to Aden. 



6. Byblia aoheloia, var. oastanba. 



Hypanis castanea, Butler, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 759. 



Somaliland (Capt. Nurse). 



