1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 71 



sides the hind-marginal spots (smaller than in typical echerioides) 

 of the hind wings. The female differs similarly from the typical 

 female as regards the size of the spots just mentioned, and the 

 large ochre-yellow marking on the upperside of the hind wings is 

 less of a patch and more of a band, being slightly wider near costa 

 and considerably wider on inner margin than in typical echerioides. 



The points of difference here noted in the male are in the direc- 

 tion of the allied larger species P. zoroastres, Druce (Ent. M. Mag. 

 xiv. p. 226, 1878, <3 ), from Fernando Po. I have not seen this 

 Butterfly ; but from a comparison of Mr. Druce's description with 

 that of P. jacksoni, E. M. Sharpe (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 188), 

 and with the figure of the latter (op. cit. pi. xvii. fig. 1), I think 

 there can be little doubt that the two are identical. P. jacksoni is 

 recorded as a native of Kikuyu, British East Africa. 



The range of P. echerioides extends to Zanzibar, M. Ch. Oberthiir 

 having figured (Etudes d'Ent. xiii. p. 10, pi. 2. fig. 6, 1890) a female 

 from " JNgourou" in that territory, which differs from more 

 southern examples only in having the discocellular spot and sub- 

 marginal spots in the fore wings, and the hind-marginal spots in' 

 the hind wings, all larger than usual. 



Family Hesperiid^;. 

 Genus Cyclopides, Westw. 



137. Cyclopides metis, Linn. 



c? . Papilio metis, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 325. n. 143 (1764) ; 

 and Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 792. n. 245 (1767). 



A single male from Christmas Pass. This is the most northern 

 locality from which I have seen an example of this abundant South- 

 African species, but Mr. Druce has recorded it from Angola, and 

 Nyassa is given as the habitat of some specimens in the Hewitson 

 Collection. 



138. Cyclopides willemi (Wallengr.). 



S . Heteropterus willemi, Wallengr. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857 — 

 Lep. Bhop. Caffr. p. 47. n. 2. 



Two males from Lusika River, captured on 1st April. One of 

 these has the spots of the discal series in the fore wings much 

 larger than usual on the upperside. 



The first female of this species that I have seen was taken by 

 Mr. A. W. Eriksson between the Cunene River and Ovaquenyama 

 Iron Mines in January-February, 1891. This example expands 

 1 in. 3 lin., and differs from the male in having the spots of the 

 fore wing on the upperside larger and of a clearer and more 

 decided yellow, especially those of the discal series ; while on the 

 underside the hind wing and apex of the fore wing are of a brighter 

 unobscured pale yellow, with fine and more sharply-defined black 

 neuration, and in the fore wing the spots of the discal series, 

 though smaller, are as complete as on the upperside, the 4th and 



