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Show 1895.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 727 some examples of that species ; the form of the wings is very different, the sinus of the outer margin being longer and more shallow; the small sinuations between the nervures are almost wholly absent, in both primaries and secondaries, and the latter wings are angulated, but not caudate, at extremity of radial vein-whilst the anal lobe is elongated. Expanse of wings 51 millim. cT, Aln'garia (Gregory); $, Euwenzori, 6000-8000 feet (Scott Elliot). 25. HYPANARTIA SCHCSNEIA. Eurema schceneia, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1879, p. 329 ; South Afr. Butt. i. p. 207, pi. iv. fig. 1 (1887). Hi/panartia commixta, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 336 (1880). Euwenzori, 9000 feet. As my short comparative description was based upon two examples from Natal (there being no specimens from Madagascar in our collection), the name H. commixta will fall to H. schceneia, not to H. borbonica, as Mr. Trimen judged-unless the species of Madagascar should prove (as I supposed) to be identical with that of South Africa; in which case, of course, it would take precedence of Mr. Trimen's name. It is even not impossible that H. schceneia may prove to be a seasonal form of H. hippomene ; the range of the two is probably identical. 26. HYPANARTIA HIPPOMENE. Hypanartia hippomene, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 25. figs. 3, 4 (1806). Euwenzori, 6000-9000 feet; Salt Lake to Wawamba. W e have this species from Madagascar ; it differs somewhat from our other examples, the tawny band being slightly notched along its outer edge (as in Boisduval's figure of the long-tailed form, to which the name of H. borbonica has been given) ; on the underside also the angular postmedian band of the secondaries is more sharply edged and veined with pale yellow ; such modifications may indicate a slight local influence, and, supposing H. schceneia to be a mere seasonal form of H. hippomene, would represent just such characters as one would expect to find in the corresponding seasonal form from Madagascar. 27. PYRAMEIS ABYSSINICA. Pyrameis abyssinica, Felder, Eeise der - Novara,' Lep. iii. p. 397 (1867). d, 2, Euwenzori, 5600-8000 feet. The examples obtained by Mr. Scott Elliot differ from that taken by Dr. Gregory in the much greater width of the tawny band across the primaries, which gives them a remarkable resemblance to Hypanartia hippomene ; the tawny subapical costal patch, reddish cupreous basal suffusion, and absence of tail to the secondaries, however, at once distinguish them. |