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Show 1895.] FBOM BEITISH CENTEAL AFBICA. 251 and Lake Mweru, but several most startling novelties, the first of which is Junonia pavonina, a lovely new species allied to J. artaxia. Another very interesting Butterfly in the collection is the female of m y Crenis crawshayi, clearly proving its distinctness from the allied G. concordia of Hopffer. Among the Moths of M r . Carson's collection is one belonging to a beautiful new genus of Lithosiidee bearing a most striking resemblance, in the disposition of its colours and somewhat complicated pattern, to the Agaristid genus Pais : examples of the beautiful Noctuid moth Calliodes glaucescens, previously received from Zomba only, were also among those obtained. The following is a list of the species of which specimens were acquired:- E H O P A L O C E B A. 1. AMAUBIS WHYTEI. Amauris whytei, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 644. 2, Zomba. 2. MELANITIS LIBYA. Melanitis libya, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. p. 405 (1882); Trimen, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 22, pi. iv. fig. 2. d1, Zomba. 3. MELANITIS SOLANDBA. Papilio solandra, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 500 (1775). Zomba. 4. SAMANTA PEESPICUA. Mycalesis perspicua, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1873, p. 104, pi. i. fig. 3. Fwambo. 5. CHAEAXES CASTOE, var. FLAVIFASCIATUS. The Eastern and Central African race of G. castor; having the upper-surface coloration of G. hansalii, with the general marking of the type form, from which the width of the central band principally distinguishes it; on the under surface, however, the dark markings on the basal half are greenish grey, there is a black transverse spot on the wider central white band, and the deep red band is clearly broken up into spots by whitish nervular streaks. Expanse of wings 4 inches to 4 inches 4 lines. Zomba. 6. CHAEAXES SATUENUS. Charaxes saturnus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 624, pi. 36. fig. 2, Lep. Exot. i. p. 5, pi. 2. fig. 2 (1869). o*, Zomba. In the same collection is the female of a male insect which I have considered since 1893 to be a variety of C. saturnus, but respecting |
