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Show • 810 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [Nov. 17, 106. PAPILIO HORRIBILIS. Papilio horribilis, Butler, Lep. Exot. p. 88, pl. xxxiv. fig. 2 (1872). o", Kasungu Mountain, 7425 feet alt., Nyika, March 1st, 1896. " A pair only seen, floating round in the air, in an opening on the outskirts of a vast forest ; spent something like half an hour in waiting to capture one ; the other disappeared " (R. ft). 107. SARANGESA ASTRIGERA. Sarangesa astrigera, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 669 ; Holland 1. c. 1896, pl. ii. fig. 8. Fuleriva forest, Deep Bay, Feb. 28th and March 6th, 1896. 108. SARANGESA MOTOZI. Pterygospidea motozi, Wallengren, Kongl. Svensk. Vetensk.- Akad. Handl. 1857, Lep. Bhop. Caffr. p. 53. Virauli Hill, Nyasa to Tanganyika Road, August 22nd, 1895. 109. SARANGESA PERTUSA. Sape pertusa, Mabille, CR. Soc. Ent. Belg. 1891, p. lxviii. Henga, W . of Lake Nyasa, June 26th, and Loangwa River, Senga, Sept. 5th, 1895. " Local, frequents shady nooks, holes, and hollows" (R. ft). One example nearly approaches S. motozi on the upper surface, but differs in the absence of yellow-ochre blotches and spots ou the under surface ; other specimens barely differ (if at all) from S. synestalmenus, Karsch. 110. SARANGESA HOLLANDI, sp. n. (Plate XLII. fig. 1.) 3. General form of S. pertusa, excepting that the costa of primaries is proportionately longer, and the outer margin consequently less arched and more oblique. Above golden-bronze-brown; all the vitreous white spots small and edged with blackish: primaries with two superposed vitreous spots at basal third of interno-median areole, two near the end of discoidal cell forming a broken >, two near base of median areoles, the lower one large and irregulavly diamond-shaped, two black dots below the latter, the upper one with a white central point, three subapical spots (the first very small), and below them two blackish spots ; fringe buff, excepting near external angle, where it is white, varied with blackish spots at the ends of the nervures and with a slender blackish subbasal line : secondaries with a small spot at the end of the cell, almost encircled by a series of ten spots, mostly with small vitreous centres ; fringe brown at apex, sordid at anal angle, otherwise white, spotted with blackish at the end of each nervure: body darker than the wings, with two white dots at each side of the bead against the eyes; antennas smoky brown. Primaries below irrorated with pale lilac; the vitreous spots white-edged and therefore apparently larger, those in the cell united so as to form a perfect > ; internal border whity brown : secondaries whitish |