1899.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 965 



species on the 6th January, of which he caught two then, and 

 the third a week later. 



14. Btblia iliythia Drury. 



Wet phase. — Machakos to Neugia, 16th December, 1898. 



Intermediate and dry phases. — Neugia, 31st January, 1899. 



" Quite the commonest butterfly hereabouts these days ; indeed 

 I have never anywhere else seen this insect in such numbers " 

 {R. C). 



15. ACRyEA OABIEA Hopff. 



Clue to exact locality and date lost. 



An example leading to the variety A. apecida. 



16. AcE^A LYCIA Fabr. (vars. sganzini and daira). 

 Muthambi River, Ndya, 7th & 11th January, 1899. 



17. ACR^A ONERATA Trim. 



cj" § w copula, Neugia, Kitwi, 11th Februarv, 1899. 

 The sexes are remarkably alike, the wing-borders of the female 

 slightly heavier and the body spotted. 



18. AcE.EA ACEiTA, var. PUDOEiNA Staud. 



S S, Neugia, Kitwi, 16th February, 1899. 



JjYC MNm M. 



19. Lachnocnema bibulus Fabr. 



Ndya, Kikuyu, -loOO feet, 6th January, 1899, 



20. AxiocERSES HAEPAX Fabr. 



2 , Kitwi, 18th January, 1899. 

 " Grass-green ova " {B. C). 



21. Teriomima pallida Trim. 



E. of Athi Eiver, about 4300 feet, 18th December, 1898. 



Mr. Crawshay regarded this as a worn example of T. hildegarda, 

 to which it certainly is very closely related, but the small and 

 inconspicuous spots on the under surface of the secondaries give 

 it a somewhat different aspect ; it would not surprise me to find 

 that it was only another variety of that variable species. 

 Mr. Crawshay says he took it for a moth until it was in the 

 killing-bottle. 



22. Catocheysops peculiaeis, var., Eogenh. (Plate LXX. 

 fig. 1.) 



$ $ , Neugia, Kitwi, 24th & 29th December, 1898. 



Of the first example Mr. Crawshay writes — " A hardly won 

 capture. Caught in my Terai hat when out shooting, and kept 

 under this on the ground, while I covered my head from the 



