250 DK. A. G. BUTLBn ON BUTTBRFtlES [Feb. 18, 



6. ACR^A SEIS. 



Acrcea sets, Peisthamel, Ann. Soe. Ent. Trance, 1850, p. 247. 



Somaliland (Capt. Nurse). 



In Mr. Kirby'a Catalogue this species was erroneously recorded 

 as a variety of A. mahela ; consequently it has since been described 

 by Mr. Grose Smith as A. matuapa, by Messrs. Qodman and 

 8alvin as A. calyce, and by Vieillot as A. mhondana ; it is distri- 

 buted over Africa from West to East, and we have one example 

 labelled South ; the ground-colour varies from almost wholly tawny 

 (probably rose-red in life) to an insect having the primaries almost 

 entirely smoky brown. A. sets is the African representative of 

 the Asiatic A. vioke, which it nearly resembles both in form and 

 pattern. 



7. CATocnnysops conxeacta. 



Lampides contracta, Butler, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 406, pi. xxxix. 

 fig. 3. 



<J ? , Shaik Othman, 3rd March {Col. Yerhury), 21st April, 

 1895 {Oapt. Nurse). 



These Arabian examples do not differ at all from those obtained 

 at Candahar, Beloochistan, and Karachi. 



8. AZANUS gamra. 



Lyccena gamra, Lederer, Verb, zool.-bot. Qes. Wien, 1855, 

 p. 189, pi. i. fig. 3. 



d 2 , Shaik Othman, 24th February, 3rd Marcli ; Aden, 7th and 

 18th March, 1895 {Col. Yerbury). 



I think it probable that this may bo the species referred to in 

 my former paper on Lepidoptera from Aden as " A. sujillata," the 

 specimens being in Col. Swinhoe's collection : the two species are 

 nearly allied, but A. siyillala is a small (probably dry-season) form 

 of A. natalensis, and shows black spots and no parallel brown 

 bars on the under surface of the disc of secondaries ; whereas in 

 A. gamra the brown bars i-eplace the extra black spots, 



9. Lto^nesthes amarah. 



Folyommatus amarah, Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss, vi. p. 384, pi. ii. 

 figs. 5, 6 (1847). 



S , Shaik Othman, 24th February, 1895 {Ool. Yerbury). 



The stronger form of wing and the two pencils of elongated 

 scales from the fringe of secondaries show this to be a LycoMesthes 

 and not an Azanus ; the pattern of the under surface is deceptively 

 similar in the two genera. 



10. ZlZERA OAIEA. 



Lyccena gaiJca, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. sei\ 3, vol. i. p. 403 

 (1862). 



tj , Aden, 19th February, 1895 {Cot. Yerbury). 



