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Show 104 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON THE [Feb. 6, 26. LEPUS ARABICUS Hempr. & Ehr. a. d; Shaka, 29th August. 6. Hiswa, 20th September. c Young. La Mileh, 16th August. " Fairly common in the more fertile wadis, but extremely difficult to shoot-unless you have a good camel that will stand when you tell it to : then, by following as quickly as possible among the bushes, one can get them. I only shot 4 all the time I was out. Breeding-time must be about October, as the female got at Sheikh Othman late n September was in kindle, 6 young ones." 27. PROCAVIA SYBIACA JAYAKARI Thos. a. Abyan Mountains, 70 miles N.E. of Aden. This is the first Dassy obtained in the Aden region, the previous examples of the subspecies having come from Dofar, halfway towards Muscat (Jayahar), and from Nejd in Central Arabia (Schweinfurth). " Hyrax.-Not rare in the hills behind Shukra,but very difficult to get within shot, as the Bedouins are always hunting them for food ; I saw 20 or more in one place, but they all cleared before I got within 100 yards. I saw a lot of snares set for them, but while I was in the district none were captured : the snares were set in the mouth of a hole. The hyrax is not much of a wanderer and feeds close to his hole. There are two species of Eagle about the hills which subsist almost entirely on them, so they have plenty of foes. According to a Bedouin from Dethina 1, the Leopards live to a large extent on Dassies, which seem to be very common iu Dethina, and Leopards are fairly numerous." 28. CAPRA SINAITICA Hempr. & Ehr. a. Skull and horns. Abyan Mountains. 3. A Revision of the Butterflies of the Genus Zizera represented in the Collection of the British Museum. By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, Ph.D., F.L S., F.Z.S. &c [Eeceived January 18, 1900.] (Plate XI.) "Whilst rearranging the Museum series of "Blues" referable to the genus Zizera, I have discovered so much of interest, that, although at present I am not prepared to assert that the genus is a good one (when examined structurally), 1 feel that a revision_of it is greatly needed. In De Niceville's ' Butterflies of India,'* a work of great merit and therefore deserving of all respect, I find certain species regarded as synonyms which to me appear to be as distinct as 1 Dethina lies some 200 miles N.E. of Aden. |