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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 79 the upperside smaller and much more widely apart from the spot immediately above it than in Hopffer's figure of the male from Querimbe; both the males have the white median bar on the upperside of the hind wings considerably narrower, but this marking is in the females about as wide as Hopffer figures it in the male. O n the underside the dark anal angular and lower discal patch is larger in both sexes, extending to hind-marginal edge except just about extremity of submedian nervure. Two females from Delagoa Bay, collected by the Eev. H . Junod in 1891, present this last-named character, and agree in other respects with the single example from the same locality noted by me loc. cit. p. 333 \ Mr. Selous notes this Butterfly as very rapid in flight, but frequently settling in bushes in shady spots. Genus PTERYGOSPIDEA, Wallengr. 157. P T E R Y G O S P I D E A DJ^EL^EL^E, Wallengr. 3. Pterygospidea cljcelcelce, Wallengr. 1. c. p. 54. n, 5 (1857). 3 2 • Pterygospidea djcelcelce, Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 354. n. 368, pi. xii. fig. 7 [ 2 ] (1889). Eight specimens, two of which are females, from the Mineni Valley (5th to 16th March) agree with the Transvaal male noted by me, I. c. p. 355, in their larger size and darker underside colouring, only the females having the rufous tolerably developed. 158. PTERYGOSPIDEA MOTOZI, Wallengr.2 Pterygospidea motozi, Wallengr. 1. c. p. 53 (1857). Nisoniades motozi, Trim. Ehop. Afr. Aust. ii. p. 313. n. 206, pi. 6. fig. 3 (1866). Four males and a female from the Mineni Valley (7th to 12th March), and a male from Vunduzi Fiver (12th April). W h e n I described this species in S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 357, I had noted females only of the typical pattern, and associated with them males taken in the same locality which differed chiefly in the much smaller vitreous spots of the fore wings, the want of the discocellular vitreous spot in the hind wings, and the possession of a more or less well-defined darker fascia in the fore wings. I have since obtained both sexes of both forms, and can rectify 1 Specimens from the Ogove Valley, Equatorial West Africa, are considerably smaller; the spots on the upperside of the fore wings are reduced in size-the lowest spot especially being very small and sublinear"; the median bar on the upperside of the hind wings is, on the contrary, much broader in its upper portion: while on the underside of the hind wings the dark lower-discal patch is more reduced than in the figure of the Querimbe type and stops short at some little distance before the hind margin. 2 The Butterfly from Bismarckburg, Togoland, figured by Karsch (Berl. ent. Zeitschr. xxxviii. pi. yi. fig. 11, 1893) as doubtfully the male of P. motozi, appears to be quite distinct, being very much smaller, with differently-shaped transparent spots (and 5 or 6 minute additional ones) in the fore wings, and having the underside of the hind wings brown with fuscous markings and without any of the characteristic yellow colouring. |