944 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Dec. 4, 



2 , Itugi, 7400 feet, Kikuyu, Oct. 2, 1899 ; <$ , Eoromo, Jan. 

 20 ; $ , Nairobi forest, March 18 ; d , Nairobi plains, April 12, 

 1900. 



2 • " Taken in the hot sunshine on almost bare open ground 

 flitting from weed to weed/'' 



<3 . " A new insect altogether to me, I think : taken on the 

 moist ground in my garden inside the zariba after the night 

 rain." 



5 . " A ragged specimen, but the only one seen. Pale bluish- 

 emerald-green coloured spherical ova.'* 



c? . " Taken by my servant Bvalamkombi. An insect unknown 

 to me, I think." 



Mr. Crawshay had evidently forgotten this variable little species 

 (an unusual circumstance !) : he took it in July and September. 

 1898, and in January, 1899. How he remembers even the obscure 

 little things he catches is a wonder to me, though I rarely forget a 

 mounted butterfly which I have once seen. 



108. Cyclopides metis. 



Papilio metis, Linnseus, Mus. Ind. Ulr. p. 325 (1764). 



Cyclopides quadrisic/natus, var., Butler, P. Z. S. 1896, pp. 130 & 

 842. 



d d, Eoromo, December 17, 1899, Jan. 25, 1900. 



" The first time I have remarked this ' Skipper ' or anything 

 resembling it in B. E. Africa, though it appears to resemble very 

 closely an insect in B. E. Africa. All four specimens I owe 

 directly to a pool of water, on the railway-line, brought about 

 through an accident to a locomotive which ran off the rails and 

 turned over." (R. C.) 



Of the last specimen Mr. Crawshay says : — " Taken on the moist 

 earth of a vegetable bed in my garden in the zariba." 



Mr. Crawshay has now sent examples indistinguishable from 

 Southern specimens of the species and not separable specifically from 

 those which I wrongly recorded in 1896 as varieties of C. quadri- 

 signatus. The latter species, of which he has sent three specimens, 

 but which he tells me is not uncommon, proves to be far more 

 constant than I was led to suppose when we first received examples 

 of C. metis approaching it in pattern : unfortunately the first 

 examples of C. quadrisignatus which we received were both rubbed 

 and faded, so that they failed to show the characteristic purplish- 

 black ground-tint, whilst the spots on the primaries in the type 

 were unusually large for the species. Mr. Crawshay promises to 

 try and obtain more examples for us. 



109. Cyclopides midas. 



Cyclopides midas, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 671; 1895, pi. xv. 

 fig. 6. 



Nairobi plains, April 12 & 14, 1900. 



