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Show 492 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Nov. 4, Damascus, but that is probably an exceptionally large example ; there is no difference between a female from Damascus and one from Huswah. " I have raised caterpillars of this on Capparis galeata."-J. TV. T. A caterpillar taken on the 14th March emerged on the 24th. 35. BELENOIS LEUCOGYNE, sp. n. Allied to B. elisa and B. Johanna. Size of B. severina : the male above milky white : primaries as in B. boguensis, with narrow oblique black discocellular streak and tapering, internally zigzag, external border enclosing five spots of the ground-colour, the second largest; secondaries with a marginal series of triangular blackish spots indistinctly connected by a few dusky scales here and there : under surface most like B. boguensis ; primaries milky white, the apical or external border brown, darker along its inner edge and enclosing six primrose-yellow spots, one being placed within the subcostal furca ; secondaries primrose-yellow, with a chain-like series of four large spots of the ground-colour upon a brown ground, an abbreviated brown irregular stripe from costa to second subcostal branch. Female above sulphur-yellow ; primaries with black discocellular bar and external border as in B. boguensis 2 ' secondaries with narrow external black border and subcostal stripe; four small submarginal spots of the ground-colour; primaries below reddish brown towards apex; seven lemon-yellow spots upon the external border, otherwise as above ; secondaries pearl-white, streaked and bordered with lemon-yellow, border brown; otherwise as above. Expanse of wings 55 m m. cf, Lahej, 3rd April; cf $ , Haithalkim, 4th and 5th April, 1884. 36. SYNCHLOE GLAUCONOME. Pontia glauconome, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 7. figs. 18, 19 (1829). Aden, 25th and 28th January, 1883; 5th and 12th February (from chrysalis), 1884. " The caterpillar of this butterfly feeds in Aden on plant no. 42 (Cleomeparadoxa), but in the interior it feeds on no. 43 (Diptery-gium glaucum) ; it is generally distributed."-J. TV. T. S. iranica of Bienert, from Persia and Affghanistan, is closely allied to this species ; on the upper surface it differs chiefly in the larger white spots on the apical border of the primaries ; on the under surface, however, it is readily separable by the absence of the green basi-abdominal patch on the secondaries, and the paler yellower tint of the other green markings on all the wings. A discoloured chrysalis forwarded by Major Yerbury as possibly that of Teracolus phisadia appears to me to belong to this species ; it is of the usual form and shows the wing-pattern distinctly. 37- NEPHERONIA ARABICA. Eronia buquetii, var. arabica, Hopffer in Peters's Reise nach Mosambique, Zool. v. p. 363, var. /3 (1862). Lahej, 3rd and 6th April; Haithalkim, 4th April, 1884. |