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footnote) on my paper descriptive of the collection of Manica 

 Butterflies formed by Mr. F. C. Selous, I wish to note my regret 

 that — unaware, of course, of what species had been described in 

 Mr. Butler's then unpublished paper on Mr. Johnston's Nyasa- 

 land collection — I should have redescribed as new Charaxes whytei, 

 Butl. (as C. selousi), and Castalius hypoleucus, Butl. (as Lycczna 

 exdusa). As to these two species there can be no doubt attaching 

 to Mr. Butler's identification ; but with respect to his opinion that 

 Cyclopides mineni, rnihi,= Ceratrichia stellata, Mabille, and that 

 Pamphila zimbazo, mihi, = P. ranoha, Westw., I do not feel at all 

 sure that the synonymy is accurate. It is true that I have not 

 seen the type either of Mabille' s or of Westwood's species, and, 

 unfortunately, the diagnosis in each case is very brief and leaves 

 much to be desired ; but I wish to specify here the apparent 

 discrepancies between the two insects that I have described and 

 the respective diagnoses of Mabille's and Westwood's species. 



" 1. In the first place, my Cyclopides mineni is certainly not a 

 Ceratrichia ; although, as I have remarked (I. c. p. 72), its general 

 aspect and markings remind one of that genus, the short (instead 

 of very long) antennae at once indicate a very distant relationship. 

 M. Mabille (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv. p. lxv, 1891) describes his 

 Cer. stellata as exhibiting ' huit points blancs vitres ' in the fore 

 wings, and notes the position of five of them (including ' deux 

 dans la cellule ') ; my Cyc. mineni has ten small but well-defined 

 spots, including two in the discoidal cell. He adds ' dessous des 

 ailes inferieures avec la cote rousse ' ; in my insect this part 

 (including the discoidal cell) is dull pale yellow, ' inferieures a bord 

 abdominal poudre de jaune ' ; in Cyc. mineni all the hind wing is 

 yellow, ' un point blanc dans la cellule et une rangee circulaire de 

 huit autres points semblables plus petits' ; in Cyc. mineni the disco- 

 cellular spot is fuscous, and the discal series consists of seven ivhite 

 spots rather large and very conspicuous. 



" 2. Westwood's diagnosis of Pamphila ranoha (App. Oates's 

 Matabeleland, p. 353) agrees very fairly with my P. zimbazo as far 

 as the upperside of the wings is concerned ; but ' alis posticis 

 fulvis nigro-guttatis ' is not applicable to the underside in my 

 species, which (as noted by me, I. c. p. 75) is dull pale ochre-yellow, 

 with a tinge of olivaceous brown or less reddish incompletely 

 fuscous-edged spots. 



" As stated in my ' S. Afr. Butt.' (iii. p. 311), I refer P. ranoha, 

 Westw., to a variety of P. morantii, mihi ; but, until comparison 

 with Westwood's type can be made, I admit that the identification 

 is only provisional. 



" It is to bo wished that the excellent figures illustrating my 

 paper had given the undersides of the species concerned, as in 

 that case the differences above pointed out could be more readily 

 observed. 



" There is a small but not unimportant mistake in the figure of 

 the underside of OhrysorycJiJa Omenta (pi. vi. fig. 13), where the 

 longitudinal white streak, which is actually a marking of the 



