18 Mil. It. 'IRIMEIS ON BUTTERFLIES EROM [Jail. 16, 



cenea. Auioug the rarer aud more interesting species are : — Fhy8- 

 cceneura pione and Melanitis libya (both hitherto represented by 

 single specimens) ; Pseudonympha vigilans, previously unknown to 

 extend into the tropical area ; Acrcea asema and A. acrita ; Planema 

 jnhnstoni, not hitherto known from south of Usambara ; Precis 

 simia (of which only the type and one other South-African example 

 had before been recorded) ; Precis artaxia ; Gharaxes lasti ( $ ), 

 G. azota, C. pollux (not apparently received before from any part 

 on or near the East Coast), and G. yuderiana ( $ ) ; Lyccena antinorii 

 and L. poygei ; Teracolus celimene ; Thymelicus capanas ; Abantis 

 zambesina ; and Hesperia unicolor. 



The apparently undescribed species are the following, viz. : — 



Nyinphalidae. 

 (Nymphalinse.) 



Charaxes manica, p. 43. 

 ,, selousi, p. 45. 



Lyctenidae. 



Lyccena exclusa 1 , p. 47. 

 Lyccenesthes lunidata, p. 51. 

 Chrysorychia cruenta, p. 55. 

 Durbania puellaris, p. 59. 



Hesperidse. 



Gyclopides mineni, p. 72. 

 Pamphila zimbazo, p. 74. 

 „ chirala, p. 76. 



Mr. Selous personally brought down his collections towards the 

 close of last year, and I thus had the advantage of obtaining and 

 writing down his notes on the habits of each species as I unpacked 

 the specimens. 



Family Nymph a lid jE. 

 Subfamily DastaiNjE. 

 Genus Danais, Latr. 



1. Danais chrysipptts (Linn.). 



Three of the four specimens are of the ordinary typical form, 

 but the fourth, taken at Sarmento on the Pungwe River, is of the 

 var. alcipjms, Cram., and has the white area in the hind wings 

 almost as largely developed as in the West-African specimens. 



Genus Amaueis, Hiibn. 



2. Amauris echeria (Stoll). 



The two specimens (male and female) were taken at Christmas 

 Pass in February. They belong to the var. albimaculata, Butl., 



1 In ti footnote (p. 48) I have described as Lyccena mashuna a close ally of this 

 species previously discovered by Mr. Selousinthe adjacent district of Mashuna - 

 land. 



