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known as L. plinius, Fabr., is identical with L. telicanus, and that 

 accordingly the range of the latter species must be extended from 

 Aden eastward over all the Oriental Region to Formosa, and also 

 to the Solomon Islands. The distribution of this Butterfly over 

 the Old World is thus rendered almost coextensive with that 

 of L. bcetica. 



83. Lyc.ena lingeus (Cram.). 



Papilio lingeus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. t. ccclxxix. figs. F, G 



(1782). 



Three examples from Christmas Pass. 



84. LYCiENA antinorii, berth. 



Lyecena antinorii, Oberth. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xviii. p. 731, 

 t, ix. fig. 3 (1883). 



The only individual captured is a male, met with in Christmas 

 Pass on 6th March. This specimen differs in one point from 

 Oberthiir's figure of the type, viz. the two series of submarginal 

 brownish-fuscous lunules are much less regular, especially in the 

 fore wings, and are interrupted in two or three places. 



It is interesting to find this little-known Lyecena, which was 

 discovered in Shoa, Abyssinia, by the late Marquis Antinori, in 

 1879, occurring so far to the south as Manica. The female appears 

 to be still unknown. From the pattern of the underside, this 

 species is clearly related to the group of L. juba, Fabr., but the 

 violaceous tint of the upperside is most like that of the male 

 L. lingeus. 



85. Lyc^ena poggei (Dewitz). 



S . Plebeius poggei, Dewitz, Nov. Act. Leop.-Carol. Akad. 

 Naturf. xli. p. 205, pi. xxvi. fig. 7 (1879). 



Of this remarkable species, founded on a single male discovered 

 by Dr. Pogge in Angola, there are four males in the collection, all 

 taken at Christmas Pass, on the 6th March, drinking at the edge 

 of water. 



The ochraceous pink-shot upperside, with the very strongly 

 marked discal series of seven unequal longitudinal black streaks 

 between the nervules of the fore wings, renders this species easily 

 recognizable ; the underside nearly resembles that of L. antinorii, 

 but is more heavily marked. A near ally is L. artemenes, Mabille, 

 from Madagascar, which, judging from the figures (3 and 4) on 

 pi. xxvii. of the " Lepidoptures " volume of Graudidier's 'Histoire 

 Physique etc. de Madagascar,' has the black streaks much thinner 

 and longer, and the cilia very feebly fuscous-varied in the fore 

 wings, while the dark markings of the underside are mostly white- 

 centred instead of uniform brownish grey. Mr. A. G. Butler 

 notes (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, v. p.' 337 (1880)) that in the 

 nature of the internervular black streaks the Madagascar species 

 agrees with the West-African L. juba, Fabr. 



