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KHOPALOCERA. 

 Nymphalid^. 



euplcein^. 



1. LiMNAS CHR-VSIPPUS. 



Papilio chrysippus, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 263 (1764). 



(S $ . Kangasi, 7th and 20th July ; $ . Foda, 26th November, 

 1885, Stazione Gadda, 20th February, 1886; c? $ • Monbuttu, 

 July and August (1886?); Wadelai, 12th January, 5th and 11th 

 March, 1887. 



From this form to its variety L. alcippoides there is a perfect tran- 

 sitional series commencing with a mere whitening of the median 

 branches of the secondaries and gradually increasing to a well-defined 

 white patch. 



Var. ALCIPPOIDES, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 238, pi. xxxi. fig. 1. 



5 $ . Kangasi, 17th and 25th July and 21st November, 1883 ; 

 S . Stazione Gadda, 7th May, 1884 ; 6 2- F(^da, 23rd November, 

 1885 ; Monbuttu, July and August; Wadelai, 12th and 13th Jan- 

 uary, 1887. 



This is also linked by intermediate steps to L. alcippus : the latter 

 therefore, though a good constant species on the West Coast from 

 Sierra Leone northwards, can here, as at Aden, be only regarded as 

 a variety of L. chrysippus. 



Yar. ALCIPPUS, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. cxxvii. E, F (1779). 



6 $ . Tobbo, 21st May; Kangasi, 14th, 17th, 20th, 22nd, 25th, 

 and 27th July ; 12th and 17th October ; 14th, 18th, and 21st No- 

 vember ; Stazione Bauri, September 1883; Stazione Gadda, 26th 

 January, 1884; Foda, 1st November, 1885; Wadelai, 13th and 

 27th January, 1887 ; Monbuttu in July and August. 



2. LiMNAS KLUGII. 



Limnas Hugii, Butler, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 758. n. 2. 



2 . Foda, 17th and 23rd November, 1885. 



Three examples of this species were obtained at Foda ; none 

 elsewhere. No intermediates tending to link it to L. chrysippus exist 

 in the collection, so that probably it does not interbreed with the 

 latter in any of the localities visited. 



3. TiRUMALA PETIVERANA. 



Danais limniace, var. petiverana, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. 

 Diurn. Lep. p. 93, pi. 12. fig. 1 (1847). 



Stazione Bauri, September 1883; Kangasi, 27th July and 14th 

 November, 1883 ; Monbuttu, in July and August. 



This is a common South-western form. 



4. Amaxjris hyalites. 



Amauris hyalites, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 209 (1874). 

 d $. Kangasi, 17th and 27th July, 1883. 



