1893.] BRITISH CBITTBAL AFRICA. 645 



dlcippoides was in the Zomba series, it is only reasonable to suppose 

 that L. alcipiius also occurs there. 



5. Mela>t:tis sol.vkdra. 



Papilio solandm, Pabricius, 8yst. Ent. p. 500, n. 244 (1775). 



Zomba, December 1S92 and January 1893. 



This is one of the forms of M. leda which is not found in India. 

 As ah-eady stated, I think the Indian type is, to all intents and 

 purposes, a species distinct from the rafescent form named by 

 Linnaeus : when two variable and allied species exhibit similarity 

 without identitif in one of their many sports, they must still be 

 considered distinct. 



6. MeLAXITIS LIBYA. 



Melaaitis lihya, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. x. 

 p. 405 (1882). 



$ , Zomba, January 1893. 



The colouring of the under surface evidently differs from that 

 of the type ; but, in a genus in which both the colouring and 

 pattern of that surface vary indefinitely, this is unimportant. 



7. GXOPHODES DIVERS A. 



Gnopliodes diversa, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. 

 p. 333 (1880). 



Zomba, July 1892. 



8. MtCALBSIS (Moiv'O'rRICKTIS) biiacotis. 



Mycalesis rliacotis, Hewitson, Ex. Butt, iii., Mijc. pi. 8. fig. 50 

 (1866). 

 Lake Mweru ; Zomba, July 1892, January 1893. 



9. Mycalesis (Monotrichtis) eusirus. 



Mijcalesis eusirus, Hopffer, Ber. Verb. Ak. Berl. 1855, p. 64l, 

 n. 13. 



Lake Mweru ; Zomba, July 1892, January 1893. 



I think it doubtful whether this is more than a form of the 

 preceding species, which, however, it would of course supersede 

 if not distinct. 



10. Mycalesis (Monotriciitis) miriam. 



Pajnlio miriam, Eabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 242, n. 754 (1793). 



Zomba, July and December 1892. 



This species varies coiisiderably in si/e and the greater or less 

 regularity of the outer line of the central belt ; examples from the 

 AVest Coast of Africa in the Museum Collection show a more 

 dentate-sinuate character in this line, especially on the priu)aries, 

 than those in the present series ; but in all other details they 

 correspond. 



