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Show 122 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Jan. 14, borders, a trausverse patch over the discocellulars, and a subapical bar, sometimes confluent with the external border, black : secondaries with a black external border, its inner edge slightly irregular, two metallic-blue submarginal spots, between which at extremity of first median branch the usual tail, black tipped with white, is emitted ; fringes spotted with white : body black, margins of eyes and a transverse line on the vertex white ; antennae ringed with white. Under surface pure white, with black markings nearly as in H.juba, but more sharply defined, the central irregular band across the secondaries only represented by a black Y-shaped costal patch, with the V portion filled in; the marginal border barely indicated, excepting towards anal angle, where the black spots touched with blue and green metallic scales are well-defined, as well as an irregular zigzag line at the back of them. Expanse of wings 33 millim. 2 2 » Cheni-Cheni Mt., 4500 feet alt., Nyika, April 18th, 1895. " Black-bordered white Blue " (22. ft). Two examples of this very fine species were obtained; one of which, however, was much shattered. 60. URANOTHAUMA CRAWSHAYI. Uranothauma crawshayi, Butler, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 631, pi. xxxv. figs. 6, 7. 3 3, Nyankowa Mt., 6500 feet alt., Nyika, April 9th, 1895; 2, Kantorongondo Mt., 5900 feet alt., Nyika, April 15th; 3, 2 2 , 6975 feet alt.. April 16th, 1895. " Giant Blue " (22. ft). 61. SPINDASIS CAFFER. Aphnceus caffer, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1868, p. 88, and 1870, p. 368. Aphnceus natalensis, Hewitson (not Westwood), 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 62, pi. xxv. figs. 1, 2 (1865). 3, Henga, west of Lake Nyasa, Jan. 22nd, 1895. " Orange and black-barred Blue" (R. ft). In his ' South African Butterflies,' vol. ii. p. 150, Mr. Trimen follows Hewitson in regarding this as S. natalensis of West-wood- on the ground, principally, " of the large size of the orange anal-angular marking in the hind wing." We, however, possess what is clearly the original of the figure in the ' Genera,' a worn female with unusually large anal patch ; it was obtained in 1846, labelled " Thecla natalii, Pt. Nat.," and agrees in all details of marking with the original figure. With regard to " the small development of the hind marginal lunulate whitish streak," also referred to by Trimen, the figure and specimen are both faulty, the latter being badly rubbed on one hind wing, and the same part broken away on the other; the imagination, of Hewitson was not lively enough to enable him to supply this deficiency in the whitish streak. |