1888] FROM EaUATORIAL AFRICA. 69 



72. CaSTALIUS ISIS. 



Papilio isis, Drury, 111. Exot. Eat. ii. pi. 3. figs. 4, 5 (1773). 

 cJ . Stazione Bauri, September 1883; Monbuttu, July and 

 August. 



73. ZizERA KNYSNA, var. 



Lyccena knr/sna, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Sop. ser. iii. vol. i. p. 282 

 C1S62). 



cJ. Wadelai, 13th January, 1887- 



A worn specimen, differing from the normal type in its greyer 

 coloration, with silvery-blue scaling on the basal three-fourths, but 

 most distinctly towards the base. 



74. Lyc^nesthes princeps, 



Lyccenesthes princeps, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 

 vol. xviii. p. 484 (1876). 



2. Tobbo, 22nd May, 1883. 

 Originally described from Abyssinian examples. 



75. Hyreus lingeus. 



Papilio lingeus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 379. F, G (1782). 

 S. Stazione Bauri, September 1883. 



76. Hypolyc^na (Tatura) pachalica, sp. n. 



Allied to H. philippus. Wings above deep rufous-brown, glossed 

 with purple in male examples ; with a black marginal line; primaries 

 with orange basicostal margin, and with greyish fringe, traversed by 

 a darker central line; secondaries with the usual black spots bounded 

 by orange lunules above the tails, the anal spot flecked with pale 

 metallic green ; a simple black spot between them, an abbreviated 

 subinarginal line, alme at the base of the fringe, the fringe, and tips 

 of the tails white ; body black, the head varied with tawny scales : 

 under surface of wings pale stone-grey ; a short bar at the end of 

 each discoidal cell, a band across the disk, and a submarginal stripe 

 bright reddish orange, edged with black and margined with whitish ; 

 a wl)ite submarginal line, separated by an orange line from the black 

 marginal line ; secondaries with an orange subcostal spot at basal 

 third, the discal band elbowed and interrupted at the submedian 

 vein, a short orange marginal band above the abdominal sinus ; a 

 dark grey band (also, less strongly indicated, on the primaries) tinted 

 with orange towards costa, between the submarginal and marginal 

 stripes ; prsecaudal spots nearly as above, but the anal spot flecked 

 with metallic leaden scales, the intermediate spot wanting : body 

 below white, the legs barred with black. Expanse of wings 23-25 

 millim. 



2cS & 1 $. Wadelai, 29th March, 1887. 



A very distinct and pretty little species. 



A worn and broken female example of an apparently new 

 Virachola, allied to V. anta, was obtained at Stazione Bauri in 

 September 1883. 



