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Show 1899.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. . 965 species on the 6th January, of which he caught two then, and the third a week later. 14. BYBLIA ILIYTHIA Drury. Wet phase.-Machakos to Neugia, 16th December, 1898. Intermediate and dry phases.-Neugia, 31st January, 1899. " Quite the commonest butterfly hereabouts these days ; indeed I have never anywhere else seen this insect in such numbers " (R. C.). 15. ACRcEA CABIRA Plopff. Clue to exact locality and date lost. An example leading to the variety A. apecida. 16. AcRcEA LYCIA Fabr. (vars. sganzini and daira). Muthambi River, Ndya, 7th & 11th January, 1899. 17. ACRcEA ONERATA Trim. <$ 2 in copula, Neugia, Kitwi, 11th February, 1899. The sexes are remarkably alike, the wing-borders of the female slightly heavier and the body spotted. 18. ACRcEA ACRITA, var. PUDORINA Staud. d cS, Neugia, Kitwi, 16th February, 1899. LYCcENIDcE. 19. LACHNOCNEMA BIBULUS Fabr. Ndya, Kikuyu, 4500 feet, 6th January, 1899. 20. AXIOCERSES HARPAX Fabr. ? , Kitwi, 18th January, 1899. " Grass-green ova " (R. C). 21. TERIOMIMA PALLIDA Trim. E. of Athi River, about 4300 feet, 18th December, 1898. Mr. Crawshay regarded this as a worn example of T. hildegarda, to which it certainly is very closely related, but the small and inconspicuous spots on the under surface of the secondaries give it a somewhat different aspect; it would not surprise me to find that it was only another variety of that variable species. Mr. Crawshay says he took it for a moth until it was in the killing-bottle. 22. CATOCHRYSOPS PECULIARIS, var., Rogenh. (Plate LXX. fig. 1.) 2 2 , Neugia, Kitwi, 24th & 29th December, 1898. Of the first example Mr. Crawshay writes-" A hardly won capture. Caught in my Terai hat when out shooting, and kept under this on the ground, while I covered my head from the |