56 MR. S. A. NEAVE ON BUTTERFLIES [Jan. 18, 



Castalius calice Hopflf. 



This species seems to be ubiquitous and occurs at all seasons. 



Castalius mel^ena Trim. 



This species, which seems to be doubtfully distinct from the 

 last, occurs nearly everywhere simultaneously with calice, but, 

 strange to say, seems to be absent from the Luangwa valley, 

 although calice is common there. 



Castalius isis Drury. 



I met with this species only in Katanga, where it was not 

 uncommon. It delights in hot, dry, and bare spots. 



Tarucus telicanus plinius Fabr. 



This species is everywhere enormously abundant. Ninety per 

 cent, of the large numbers of small Lycpenidse at mud-holes were 

 generally of this species. 



Tarucus pulcher Murray. 



Lyccena pulchra Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 524, 

 pi. x. fig. 7 non 8. 



I find in the collection eight males and six females of -what I 

 believe to be this species. It is impossible to say with certainty, 

 as Murray does not figure the underside of the male and has 

 figured as the female of the species one of the highly marked 

 females of the common telicanus Lang. My specimens agree 

 with the figure of the male in their uniformly small size and 

 peculiar amethyst tint on the upper surface. The underside 

 markings are always of a pale fulvous colour, never dusky, and 

 the striae are more broken up and rounded than in telicanus, and 

 in the secondaries the markings within the submarginal line are 

 more or less evanescent. The females agree closely with the 

 males in the above-mentioned differences from telicanus, and 

 have in a reduced form the same amethyst wash on the upper 

 surface and the same small size. They are somevhat whiter on 

 the upper surface than those of telicanus. I took this species 

 over a fairly wide area, chiefly in low-lying river-valleys. It 

 occurs mixed up with telicanus, and was especially common on 

 Lake Bangweolo. 



Azakus moriqua Wallengr. 

 Azantts sigillatus Butler*. 



Azanus jesous Guer. 



Both these species, especially the latter, seem fairly common 

 everywhere. 



AZANUS MIRZA Pltitz. 



I found this a common species in the Luangwa valley. 

 Scarce on the plateau and absent from Katanga. 



* For this synonymy, vide Trimrn, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1906, p. 79 note. 



