48 MR. S. A. NEAVE ON BUTTERFLIES [Jail. 18, 



Aphnveus questiauxi. (Plate II. fig. 4, § .) 



Aph,7iceus questiauxi Auriv. Arkiv Zool. 1903, i. p. 252. 



I captured a pair of this fine species on the Alala plateau, 

 north-east of Broken Hill, ix. Subsequently I found it not 

 uncommon in the Kalungwisi valley and Lake Bangweolo dis- 

 trict also in September. It frequents the edges of patches of 

 forest and sometimes visits mud-holes. It seems to be on the 

 wing only about the month of September. In the cool high 

 plateau country this is the early spring of the year, though 

 some time before the first rains. 



The female of this species seems to be undescribecl. It is larger, 

 length of primary 24 mm. as compared with 18-21 mm. in the 

 male. It has more rounded primaries which exhibit a submarginal 

 flush of reddish chocolate on apex and outer margin ; blue basal 

 flush of primary somewhat more extensive than in male; abdomen 

 dorsally covered with blue scales, not hairy as in male. 



Aphn^eus erikssoni Trim. 



Represented by a single male from the Alala plateau, ix., and 

 another solitary male taken in the same month north of Lake 

 Bangweolo. These specimens differ somewhat from South-African 

 specimens. The upperside apical spots and all the spots and 

 markings of the under surface are much enlarged. 



Aphnveus marshalli, sp. n. (Plate II. fig. 8, $ .) 



A distinct species, somewhat resembling A. erikssoni Trim, on 

 the upper surface, but without the blue wash of that species. 



c? . Upperside. — Primary. Rich chestnut-red ; shoulder of 

 costa same colour ; rest of costa, apex, and outer margin narrowly 

 blackish ; a small semi-transparent discocellular spot ; a subapical 

 row of three whitish, dark-margined spots in areas 6, 5, 4, of which 

 the last is darker than others and placed nearer outer margin ; 

 in some individuals this spot is evanescent, and in one where it is 

 well-marked it is accompanied by similar spots in areas 2 and 3, 

 making a row parallel to outer margin. 



Secondary. Ground-colour as primary, of a duller colour on 

 inner margin and anal lobe, which are covered with long hairs ; 

 outer margin narrowly dusky ; anal lobe bears a deep ferruginous 

 tail. 



Underside. — Primary. Ground-colour rich fawn, paler toward 

 hind margin, bearing the following silver marks and spots, out- 

 lined in black and again more irregularly in ferruginous: — one 

 spot above costa at base, another below it in cell ; a streak across 

 middle of cell ; a discocellular streak ; two confluent subapical 

 spots in areas 5 and 6, the latter slightly invading areas 8 and 9 ; 

 a small spot in area 4 nearer outer margin than last ; an indefinite 

 submarginal spot in 1 b and a still fainter one nearer base in same 

 area (in some specimens the former of these is a definite streak 

 extending from 1 to 2 ; there may also be two additional spots 

 in 2 and 3 and a minute one at junction of 2 with median) ; a 



