1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 81 



to find two, three, four, or all five spots wanting or but faintly 

 indicated. In the exception from the Mineni Valley, four of these 

 spots are reduced to mere dots and the fifth is wanting altogether. 



Genus Hesperia, Fabr. 



161. Hesperia eorestan (Cram.). 



Papilio forestan, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. t. cccxci. figs. E, F (1782). 

 One specimen from Christmas Pass (27th February) and another 

 from the Mineni Valley (27th March). 



162. Hesperia toticolor (Mab.). 



Ismene miicolor, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) vii. p. xxxix. n. 47 

 (1887); Bull. Soc. Zool. Er. 1877, p. 230. 



Two examples : a male, in good order, captured at Christmas 

 Pass on the 20th February, and an apparent female, very much 

 damaged, near the Vunduzi River on 12th April. 



The few specimens of this singularly dull-tinted species that 

 have come under my notice were from Delagoa Bay and from 

 Durban, Natal. Mabille's descriptions were from Congo examples. 



Genus Abantis, Hopff. 



163. Abantis zambesina (Westw.). 



S . Hesperia (Oceynetra) zambesina, Westw. Thes. Ent. Oxon. 

 p. 183, pi. xxxiv. fig. 9 (1874). 



Eight males : seven from Mineni Valley (13th to 29th March), 

 and one from Vunduzi River (6th April). 



This beautiful Hesperid is noted as not numerous, and always 

 in open country ; it was mostly captured while drinking at the 

 water's edge, but some were found on the tall spikes of blue 

 flowers already mentioned as the haunt of several Lycamiclce and 

 Hesperiidce. 



I have not yet seen the female of this species, which is still rare 

 in collections. 



In addition to the species above mentioned, there are two forms 

 of Mycalesis which I cannot with certainty refer to any described 

 species without comparison with the types, but which I believe to 

 be assignable to the species hereunder named. 



164. ? Mycalesis campa, Karsch. 



<$ . Mycalesis campa, Karsch, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xxxi. p. 206, 

 t, v. fig. 4 (1893). 



This species belongs to the safitza group, but is distinguished 

 by the rather acute angulation of the common pale postmedian 

 transverse streak of the underside in both fore and hind wings on 

 the 3rd median nervule. 



Two examples taken by Mr. Selous in Christmas Pass on 16th 

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