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Crenis Morantii, p. 253. 
Additional locality : — Zululand : Etshowe if. Goodrich). 
Crenis Bosa, Hewitson, p. 255. 
^ Crenis Pechuelii, Dewitz, Nov. Act. Leop. -Carol. -Deutscli. Akad. Nat., 
xli. p. 195, tab. xxvi. f. i (1879). 
(J Crenis Pechuelii, Staud., Exot. Schmett., i. p. 107, pi. 40 (1885). [Female 
noted in text.] 
I overlooked the fact that C. Pechuelii is unquestionably the ^ of Hewitson's 
earlier C. Rosa, owing partly to the dull colouring and small size of Dewitz's 
figure, which gives but little idea of the great beauty of the insect. Staud- 
inger's figure is not much better, but renders more faithfully the warm, rich 
ochre-yellow of the under side of the fore-wings. Dewitz's types (six (Js) 
were taken by Pogge in Angola ("Lat. 10° S., long. 17-22° E."), but Staud- 
inger mentions having received a pair from Vivi, on the Congo, and others 
from the Quango, a southern tributary of the Congo. 
I have lately (1888) had the pleasure of receiving eleven fine (Js from 
Otjimbora, a locality within the Portuguese boundary of the interior of the 
province of Mossamedes, just to the north-east of Ovampoland, and situated 
apparently in about S. lat. 17° 8', and E. long. 17° 27'. These specimens were 
taken by the well-known hunter and naturalist Mr. A. W. Eriksson, at dates 
between the 20th November and 3d December 1887.^ I give from these 
examples the characters distinguishing the ^ from the 9 . 
^ Exp. al, 2 in. 5I-7J lin. Violaceous- blue brighter, suhmetallic, more 
or less shot ivith pirik. Fore-iving : Oblique fuscous bars between extremity of 
discoidal cell and apex wanting; near apex, from fourth subcostal to lower 
radial nervule, a transverse row of three small, or very small, fuscous spots, of 
which the lowest is the largest ; hind-marginal fuscous border very much 
narrower, almost linear in some examples, its radiation on nervules and on 
subcostal nervure much thinner; a submarginal series of very small fuscous 
spots, extending from costa to between second and first median nervules. 
Hind-ioing : black spots of discal series smaller, not encircled by paler blue. 
Under side. — As in $ , hut brighter ; the greenish-white marldngs more glossy, 
and sometimes with a tinge of violaceous-blue. Fore-ioing : no trace of inner 
oblique fuscous bar or of spot below third median nervule ; costal-apical 
widening of greenish-white edging wanting. Hind-wing: median and pre- 
median greenish-white transverse bands usually coalesce, more or less com- 
pletely, about median nervure and the base of its first nervule, but in four 
examples they are completely separated, as in $ . 
This lovely Nymphaline has much the aspect of a magnified Lycsenide, its 
shot-blue upper side strongly resembling that of various species of Lyccjena, 
while the under side in tints and hind-wing ocellate spots strongly recalls that 
of the European Clirysophanus Hippothoe. 
Additional localities in South Tropical Africa : — AVestern Interior. — Mossa- 
medes Province : Otjimbora (A. W. Eriksson). "Angola (Pogge)." — DeAvitz. 
Congo: "Vivi (Pechuel-Loesche) and Quango River (Von Mec how). ^taud- 
inger. 
^ Four of the nearly allied and almost equally beautiful C. Benguelce were taken by Mr. 
Eriksson at the same time and place, and two other examples at Ehanda, considerably 
farther northward, in September 1887. In 1873 I made a description of two <J s of this 
Crenis among other butterflies collected at Kabenda, about forty miles north of the mouth 
of the Congo, by Lieutenant Larcom, R.N. 
