1900.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 913 



send to Dr. Giinther : one taken by Dr. Waters of the Uganda 

 Eailway and given to me ; one taken by Mapeyani, my servant, in 

 our zariba] ; Chameleons — one with three horns on the frontal 

 bone; and many small Batrachians — of which I have secured 

 a few for examination. 



" White ants there are none at the highest altitudes, neither 

 are there Scorpions, Spiders of the venomous type, or Centipedes 

 [Scolopendra?] — unless maybe one small yellow Centipede of which 

 I secured three in all when breaking up a crumbling giant tree- 

 trunk in clearing the ground for our zariba, and which appears to 

 be venomous on a small scale.'' 



As might be expected from this description of the country, the 

 collection of Butterflies, of which the following is an account, is of 

 exceptional interest. In addition to six new species of the genera 

 Argiolaus, Epamera, Gyclyrws, PJirissura, Eagris, and Cdcmorrlumis, 

 examples of the following species new to the Museum collection 

 were obtained : — Oharasees ansorgei § > Umnothauma antinorii, 

 Mylothris rubricosta (previously represented by only one small 

 example in the Hewitson collection), Mylothris neumanni, Teracolus 

 elgonensis, Papilio rex ; also the following, of which additional 

 specimens were urgently required : — Panopea expansa both sexes 

 (showing that P. tarqulnia is synonymous therewith), Lachnoptera 

 ayresii, Argynnis hanningtoni, Neptis trigonophora (proving N. 

 hrmanni to be synonymous), Chrysophanus abbottii, Teriomima 

 aslauga, Pilodeudorix ceerulea, Myrina dermaptera, Umnothauma 

 cordatus, U. fallcensteini, Castalius margaritaceus, the dry phase of 

 Teracolus chromiferus, the Eastern form of Belenois zoehdlia, the 

 dry phase of Pinacopteryx gerda, both sexes of Papilio nobilis (the 

 tailless female being new to science), two very dissimilar females 

 of P. phorcas (both of the P. thersander type) and a pale-coloured 

 male, Sarangesa motozioides, both sexes, Caprona canopus, Cychpides 

 midas and G. quadrisignatus, Parnara micans, and Perichares teli- 

 signata. Lastly, the collection contained a very remarkable 

 intermediate example between Precis sesamus and P. natalensis, 

 which Mr. Marshall has proved by breeding to be only forms of 

 one species, and which (as the fact of the identity of these wonder- 

 fully different-looking Butterflies is still doubted by some ento- 

 mologists) ought certainly to be figured. 



Nymphalid.e. 



1. Amauris aluimactlata. 



Amauris albimaculata, Butler, Ann. N. H. (4)xvi. p. 39-1 (1875). 



d , Eoromo, 7700 feet, Kikuyu, Oct. 5, 1899 ; $ , Jan. 20, 

 1900 ; S 6, Euarka E,, 5500 feet, Kikuyu, April 22, 1900. 



Of the first pair Mr. Crawshay writes — " Fairly common ; 

 usually to be seen on the outskirts of the forest." And " Fairly 

 common these days, though comparatively rarely is a perfect 

 specimen obtainable. It has somewhat astonished me to find an 

 insect of this genus a foul feeder : some ten 'days ago I counted 



