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Show 1899.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA 423 median area pale blue, interrupted and succeeded by a macular bright orange discal band consisting of five spots, of which that above the anal margin is bifid ; a submarginal series of prominent black spots with white outer edges ; marginal line of all the wings black ; the fringe with its basal half smoky-grey, its outer half snow-white ; tail black with white tip : underside as in the male. Expanse of wings 27 millim. 2 , Machako's, 10th July, 1898. Mr. Grose-Smith has kindly identified this very pretty species for me. 28. CACYREUS LINGEUS Cramer. 2 , Machako's, 3rd July, 1898. 29. ZERITIS HARPAX Fabr. <3 6 , Machako's, 3rd, 7th, and 20th June ; Machako's to Naugia, 13th July, 1898. 30. CHRYSOPHANUS ABBOTTI Holland. (Plate XXV. fig. 1.) 6 , hills near Machako's, 26th June, 1898. " I have not observed this species in the immediate neighbourhood of Machako's, but in the adjoining hills." (R. C.) 31. LACHNOCNEMA BIBULUS Fabr. 2 , Naugia, 3rd October, 1898. 32. VIRACHOLA ANTALUS Hopffer. <5 , Machako's, 26th June ; $ , Machako's to Naugia, 14th July, 1898. " $, several seen playing about a clump of bush, but nowhere else"; " $ , emerald-green ova." (R. C.) Tbe female has the margins of the markings below bright rust-red. I have never before seen an example so vividly coloured. Var. ? The male is paler on both surfaces, less purple above, and has the lines much more regular below, the subanal markings on the secondaries silvery green (not golden green) ; the female is distinctly lavender-blue above with well-defined dusky borders ; the markings outlined in stone-grey; no black spots towards the base of secondaries. Altogether this is a smaller form than typical V. antalus: it is a common West-African butterfly. 2 , Machako's, 10th July ; 6 , Machako's to Naugia, 4300 feet, 22nd September, 1898. 33. STUGETA BOWKERI Trimen. 6 2, Machako's, 28th May, 1898. The female was " taken on a bush just as she had nearly finished depositing her ova, grass-green in colour." (R. C.) 28* |
