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II. An Account of a Collection of Rhopalocera made at 

 Zomba in British Central Africa. By Percy I. 

 Lathy. Communicated by Charles J. Gahan, M.A. 



[Read November 2 1st 1900.] 



Plate III. 



During the past two years Mr. H. J. Adams, F.E.S., 

 has been receiving consignments of Lepidoptera from 

 Zomba; as the collection contains a few novelties, and 

 some species which have not been hitherto recorded from 

 the locality, an account of it may perhaps be of interest. 



In all, one hundred and seventy-six species of Rhopalo- 

 cera were obtained, and considering this was the work of 

 an untrained collector, it was I think a satisfactory result. 



The principal feature of the collection, as in others 

 made in the same locality, is the number of Charaxes, it 

 containing no less than twenty species, many of them 

 rare, and one, C. etesipe, Godt., that has been hitherto 

 regarded as a West African species. 



The females of Mylothris rubricosta, Mab., and Papilio 

 pelodtirus, Butl., are also in the collection. 



My thanks are due to Dr. Butler and Mr. Heron of the 

 Natural History Museum for their kind assistance in 

 enabling me to determine many of the species, and to 

 Dr. Jordan for his help with the Charaxes. 



The arrangement followed in this list is that of Dr. 

 Holland for the Hesperiidae, and Prof. Aurivillius for the 

 other families. 



1. Danccis chrysippus. 



Papilio chrysippus, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr., p. 263 

 (1764). 



2. Danais dorippus. 



Euploea dorippus, Klug., Symb. Phys., t. 48, f. 1-5 



(1845). 



3. Amauris dominicanus. 



Amauris dominicanus, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 

 1879, p. 323. 



4. Amauris ochlea. 



Danais ochlea, Boisd., Voy. Deleg., ii, p. 580 (1847). 



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