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Show 1885.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M SOMALI-LAND. 773 with less strongly-defined markings. Expanse of wings, o* 2 37 millim. One male and three females.- Thrupp. Two males. Duderi, 26th April, 1884.-Yerbury. Var. b. Still smaller, the male with apical patch as in the type, but more broadly bordered internally with sulphur-yellow; black marginal edging only indistinctly seen with the help of a lens ; under surface of primaries as in var. a, of secondaries pale pink with base of costa orange : the female with the apical patch much paler than in var. a, the marginal spots wanting, the discal spots ill-defined; the markings of the secondaries obsolete, the markings of the under surface faintly indicated in olivaceous, instead of deep brown, the secondaries pink-tinted. Expanse of wings, 6" 2 35 millim. One male, two females, 2nd January.- Thrupp. The three forms which I here associate under one specific name are doubtless representatives of the three supposed species taken by Col. Swinhoe in Bombay, viz. T. pseudevanthe, T. titea, and T. eucharis ; whether they are distinct or not can be decided only upon the spot by careful successive experiments in breeding. Therefore, whilst I refrain from asserting that the Indian types are mere varietal forms, I equally refrain from separating as species the three gradational types found in Somali until more is known concerning them. The male of the form taken by Major Yerbury (var. a) somewhat resembles Klug's figure of T. liagore S; his supposed female is a male of a distinct species allied to T. glycera. 42. TERACOLUS NOUNA. Anthocharis nouna, Lucas, Expl. Alger., Zool. iii. p. 350, n. 14, pi. 1. fig. 2 (1849). One male. Bunder Maria, 27th April, 1884. This is evidently a wide-ranging species. Major Yerbury obtained only one example on the Somali coast; it agrees in all respects with males from Aden, excepting that the orange subapical dash on the under surface of the primaries is a little less red in tint. 43. CATOPSILIA HYBL^EA. $. Callidryas hyblaa, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep. p. 612, n. 11 (1836). 6* 2 • Gatopsilia hyblaa, Butler, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 487. <f> 2 • More than eighty miles south of Berbera.-Lort-Phillips. Three males and one female obtained. 44. CATOPSILIA ALEURONA. 2 . Catopsilia aleurona, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 489 (1876) ; 6, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 487. cJ 2 • ^ess than eighty miles south of Berbera.-Lort-Phillips. These two species of Catopsilia were taken with the fingers whilst settling near water ; of the latter species only a single rather worn pair was obtained. |
