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



Hesperia vindex Oram. 



A common and ubiquitous species. 



Hesperia mafa Trim. 



Sparingly met with in the Luangwa valley and on the Broken 

 Hill plateau to the west of it. 



Hesperia bettoni. 



Hesperia bettoni Butler, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 415, pi. xxxii. fig. 1. 



The collection comprises a series which I refer with some doubt 

 to the above species. They may perhaps prove to be the wet- 

 season form of it. I met with the species only in the Luangwa 

 valley, ii., iii. 



OXYPALPUS WOLLASTOXI. 



Oxypalpus wollastoni Heron, Trans. Z. S. vol. xix. p. 171. 

 Occurs rarely in forest country on the Lualaba in Katanga, and 

 on the Kalungwisi river in N.E. Rhodesia. 



Oxypalpus rutilans Mab. 



A single individual from dense forest on the Kalungwisi 

 river, x. 



Oxypalpus fulvus. 



Oxypalpus fulvus Lathy, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1903, pp. 203, 204, 

 pi. viii. fig. 11. 



A single specimen of this brilliant little species from the 

 Lufupa river, xi. 



Parosmodes harona Westw. 



Pamphila harona Westw., Oates' Matabeleland, p. 253 (1881). 



Oxypalpus ruso Mab. 



Pamphila 7'uso Mab. C. R. Soc. Ent. Belg. vol. xxv. p. clxxxiii. 

 (1891). 



Oxypalpus ruso Holl. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 130, pi. iii. fig. 13. 



From my field experience I am strongly inclined to think that 

 ruso Mab. represents the wet phase of harona Westw. Both 

 forms are essentially woodland species. In the main ruso is 

 confined to the wet season, but on the high plateau, where the 

 climate is much colder, it may be taken during the first two or 

 three months of the dry season. Both forms are extremely 

 common in their season. 



Parosmodes icteria Mab. 



This is a woodla.nd species which is extremely abundant every- 

 where. 



Parosmodes morantii Trim. 



I found this species, though widely distributed, to be every- 



