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Show 1896.] FROM NYASALAND. 129 the upper surface and both surfaces of the male are quite typical B. agrippina : possibly the yellow on the under surface of the females may be seasonal; but if so it is characteristic of our winter months, the only awkward fact being that it reappears in July at Zomba; then, again, many specimens of the pale type were collected by the late Emin Pasha at Wadelai from January to March. Altogether the question of seasonal dimorphism in this species becomes very complicated. 84. HERP^ENIA ERIPHIA. Pieris eriphia, Glodart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 157 (1819). o*, Foot of Jakwa Mt., 3210 feet, Henga, Jan. 29th, 1895. " Marbled White " (R. ft). 85. PAPILIO CORINNEUS. Papilio corinneus, Bertoloni, Mem. Ace. Bologna, 1849, p. 9, pi. figs. 1-4. Henga, W . of Lake Nyasa, Jan. 28th, 1895. " Mother-of-Pearl and Black " (R. ft). 86. TAGIADES FLESUS. Hesperia flesus, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. ii. p. 135 (1781). Manchewi Falls, Lower Nyika, April 6th ; Lumpi R. vallev, April 21st, 1895. " Large grey-patched Skipper " (R. ft). 87. SAPJBA TRIMENII. Sapcea trimenii, Butler, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 264, pi. xv. fig. 5. 3 2 ' No label with specimens. 88. HESPERIA DROMUS. Pyrgus dromus, Plotz, Mitth. naturw. Vereins, 1884, p. 6. Mrali (25 miles N. of Deep Bay), W . coast of Lake Nyasa, Feb. 22nd; Kaporo, Songwe R. plains, Feb. 26; Deep Bay, March 16th, 1895. " Black and white Skipper " (R. ft). 89. OXYPALPUS RUSO. Pamphila ruso, Mabille, Comptes Rendus Soc. Ent. Beige, 1891, p. clxxxiii. 3, Lumpi R. valley, Lower Nyika, April 21st, 1895. " Orange and black barred Skipper " (R. ft). 90. OSMODES RANOHA. Pamphila ranoha, Westwood, in Oates's Matabele-Land, p. 353 (1881). 3, Lumpi R., Lower Nyika, Feb. 2nd, 1895. PROC. ZOOL. SOC-1896, No. IX. 9 |
