1893.] BEITI8H OBNTBAL AFRICA. 663 



near to B. calypso and might almost be a hybrid between that 

 species and B. sabmta=tJiysa, var. ; the description is based upon 

 two examples, both of them males. 



98. MtLOTHEIS EtrPPBLLI. 



Piei'is rilppellii, Koch, Indo-Austr. Lep. Fauna, p. 88 (1865). 

 ? , Zomba, January 1893. 



99. NyCHITOIfA ALCESTA. 



Papilio alcesta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. ccclxxix. A (1782). 

 Lake Mweru. 



100. COLIASBDUSA. 



Papilio edusa, Pabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 23, n. 240 (1787). 

 $ , Zomba, December 1892. 



101. Teeias zoe. 



Terias zoe, Hopffer, Ber. Verb. Ak. Berlin, 1855, p. 640, 

 n. 5; Peters's Eeise nach Mossamb. v. p. 369, pi. 23. figs. 10, 11 

 (1862). 



2 5 Zomba, January 1893. 



102. Teeias eegtjlaeis. 



Terias regularis, Butler, Ann. &Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii. 

 p. 486 (1876). 



J $ , Zomba, July and December 1892. 



103. Teeias oeientis. 



Terias orientis, Butler, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 71, n. 87. 



Terias butleri, Trimen, Afr. Butt. iii. p. 23, n. 244 (1889). 



d , Lake Mweru ; $ , Zomba, July 1892. 



I had suspected the identity of T. orientis and T. butleri ever since 

 reading the description of the latter, and in 1891 Mr. C. Barker 

 kindly gave us a typical example of T. butleri from Palapye, 

 Kama's country, Mashoualand, enabling me to prove the fact 

 beyond question. 



104. Teeacoltjs ehodesinus, sp. n. (Plate LX. fig. 6.) 



S . Intermediate in character between T. vesta and T. catochry- 

 sops. Upper surface creamy buff, with white basal third and blue- 

 grey basal scaling : primaries with slender black costal margin ; 

 discocellular spot large and black as in T. mutans ; the external 

 border nearly as in T. doubledayi, only the veins are not black beyond 

 the bisinuated inner band of the black-brown external area : second- 

 aries with the inner band or edging of the external area very 

 narrow and almost obliterated below the third median branch, the 

 outer border also narrow as in T. doubledayi, but more sharply 

 defined ; the enclosed spots conse(iuently are longer than usual. 

 Below like T. vesta, but the primaries willi tlie bisiuuateil J-band 

 narrower and the secondaries of a more Uvely sulphur-yellow tint, 

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