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Show 264 DB. A. G. BUTLEB ON LEPIDOPTERA [Mar. 19, 57. PAPILIO OPHIDICEPHALUS. Papilio ophidicephalus, Oberthiir, Etudes, iii. p. 13 (1878). 2, Zomba. 58. TAGIADES FLESUS. Hesperia flesus, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 135 (1781). 3, Zomba. One curious example, in which the hyaline spots on the primaries have either disappeared or been greatly reduced in size. 59. SAP^EA TEIMENI, sp. n. (Plate XV. fig. 5.) Abantis zambezina, Trimen (not Westwood), Smith, Afr. Butt. iii. p. 344, footnote. Neither the figure nor the description of Westwood's insect correspond with this species, nor is there the slightest reason for Mr. Trimen's supposition that the sides of the abdomen had " probably become discoloured." The following comparison will, 1 think, show that this view of the case will not account for the differences between the two types :- Oxynetra zambesiaca, Westwood (not Abantis zambezina). " The fore wings are chalybeous black. " The head and body are black, the head with a large white frontal spot, and two small ones between the eyes. The tippets of the collar or prothorax are clothed with scarlet hairs, the tegulae or wing-scales, together with a pair of dots in front of them, and a second pair behind them at the sides of the disc, as well as the narrow7 hind margin of the scutellum, white : the latter is followed by a curved band of scarlet, the extremity of the abdomen being of the same colour: the four middle segments of the abdomen are luteous, with a narrow dark longitudinal line down the centre." Sapcea trimeni, Butler (Abantis zambezina, Trimen). The fore wings are peacock-green, black in the centre; the hyaline spots rather smaller than in Westwood's species, and there is usually a small extra one on interno-median area. The hind wings have the external area almost wholly metallic Prussian blue (not chalybeous black). The palpi are almost wholly snow-white, like the frontal patch; there is a central transverse white line on the vertex, as well as the two dots at the base of the antennse ; the pterygodes are purplish black at base, with a large patch of white before the terminal fringe, which is dull black; there is also a double white spot at the base of the front wings. As with Westwood's species there are two convergent tufts of carmine hairs, forming what he calls " a curved band of scarlet " at the back of the thorax, and the abdomen terminates in a tuft of the same colour, but here the resemblance ceases; the upper |
