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Show 1895.] THE COUNTRY WEST OF LAKE NYASA. 631 with blackish subbasal line followed by a whitish stripe: body blackish. Under surface mouse-grey, with markings somewhat as in Z. lysimon, but the primaries with pale-edged black reniform discocellular spot; discal series consisting of five whitish-edged conspicuous black spots, the interno-median area being crossed by two white lunules, to represent the lower spots of Z. lysimon ; submarginal and marginal markings normal: secondaries with only three nearly equidistant subbasal pale-edged black spots, and only the first spot of the discal series black, but in the submarginal series the sixth spot is centred with a black spot edged wdth metallic blue. Expanse of wings 23 millim. cf, Kasungu Mountain, Nyika, west of Lake Nyasa, Sept. 2nd, 1893. " Tiny Blue " (R. ft). 10. SCOLITANTIDES STELLATA ? Lyccena stellata, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1883, p. 349. Kasungu Mountain, Nyika, west of Lake Nyasa, Sept. 2nd, 1893. " Tiny dull Blue " (R. ft). 11. ZERITIS HARPAX. 2 . Papilio harpax, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. App. p. 829 (1775). 2, Deep Bay, 1500 feet altitude, west of Lake Nyasa, March 11th, 1894. " Large Copper 2 , with emerald-green legs " (R. ft). An unusually large example, and redder underneath than in the majority of specimens. URANOTHAUMA, gen. nov. Allied to Spindasis and Hyreus: primaries with four subcostal branches, the first emitted from halfway to end of discoidal cell, anastomosing with costal vein, the second at one-third distance from end of cell, the third from halfway between cell and apex, the fourth running to just before the apex: secondaries with one rather long tail near anal angle ; costal margin slightly sinuous ; neuration quite normal: abdominal half of wings below clothed wdth long hairs ; abdominal margin densely hairy; eyes, pectus, and legs to end of femora densely hairy. Male with a large velvety black patch on the upper surface of the primaries immediately beyond the cell. Typical species, with the anal angle lobed and the tail emitted from a second more prominent lobe: U. crawshayi. This genus will include Hyreus cordatus, E. M . Sharpe, from Sotik, Kavirondo. 12. U R A N O T H A U M A CRAWSHAYI, sp. n. (Plate X X X V . figs. 6,7.) d Eufous brown, shot with bright violet, excepting on the costal and abdominal borders of the secondaries; fringes white, spotted with black at the extremity of the veins, most heavily on the primaries; a large velvety black patch beyond the cell of these |