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Show 1899.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 971 47. TERACOLUS CATACHRYSOPS Butl. d\ Msokani, Kitwi, 29th December, 1898. " Fairly common, but not an easy insect to take : a fast flier and a desperate doubler " (R. G.). The single example sent belongs to the wet phase, which differs from the dry phase in the better defined, browner, and much darker bands on the under surface. This character, apart from other differences, amply serves to prove its entire distinctness from T. mutans of Southern Africa, whilst at the same time it indicates some relationship to T. protomedia. 48. BELENOIS SEVERINA, Cram. Tana River, 4th January, 1899. Rather a curious male, baving a wet aspect on the upper surface, but the under surface characteristic of a late intermediate phase, the black veins being feebly indicated. 49. BELENOIS MESENTINA Cram. 2, Nthatha Hill, Kitwi, 4700 feet, 31st December, 1898; cS, Neugia, 30th January, 1899. 50. BELENOIS WESTWOODI Wllgr. Tana River, 4th January, 1899. 51. PINACOPTERYX ASTARTE, sp. n. (Plate LXX. figs. 6, 7.) The wet phase of this species, of which we received a male from Fwambo in 1897, is not very unlike that sex of P. falkenstcinii, but has the costal margin of the primaries shorter and the outer border more interrupted, represented only by spots at the extremities of the first and second median branches ; the costal margin of the secondaries below is deep orange. Expanse of wings 60 millim. The intermediate phase, of which (as well as of the male dry phase) we received sexes in 1889 from Tanganyika, differs in the reduction of the width of the outer border in the male and the paler under surface. The female is bright orange, redder at the base; the primaries with a marginal series of rather large greyish spots becoming black externally, and a similar smaller spot on the disk beyond the middle of the second median interspace ; the secondaries with smaller black marginal spots at the extremities of the nervures : below, all the spots are small and black, and there are five tiny squamose spots across the disk of secondaries parallel to the outer margin : body blackish above, whitish below. Expause of wings, 6 63 millim., $ 61 millim. The dry phase (now sent by Mr. Crawshay) is smaller; the marginal blackish border of the male primaries is reduced to more or less connected spots, the number of black spots on the secondaries is reduced, aud on the under surface those of the primaries are absent, whilst the orange costal border of the secondaries is |
