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Show 82 ON BUTTERFLIES FROM MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. [Jan. 16, February agree very well with Karsch's description of the male from Bismarckburg, Togoland, in Northern West-Tropical Africa, but have the angulation in question less pronounced (in one example very much less pronounced in the fore wing than is shown in the figure quoted), and also present a considerable acute dentation throughout, in both fore and hind wings, of the inner submarginal dark line. In these characters the Manica examples are nearer to M. safitza, but differ more than the figure of M. campa does from the same species in having the 4th ocellus of the series in the hind wings very much smaller than (instead of nearly as large as) the fifth K 165. ? MYCALESIS ENA, Hewits. Mycalesis ena, Hewits. Ent. M . Mag. xiv. p. 107 (1877). A single male from Christmas Pass, captured on 20th February, appears to m e to agree with Hewitson's description of this Lake Nyassa species, the postmedian common transverse streak having the " undulated" form specified as far as the hind wings are concerned; but the brief diagnosis is too vague and of too general an application to enable any satisfactory identification to be arrived at. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE IV. Fig. 1. Physcceneura pione, Godm., 3, p. 20. 2. Melanitis libya, Dist., 3, p. 22. 3, 3«. Acrcea asema, Hewits., 3 2, p. 24. 4. Acrcsa acrita, Hewits., 3 var., p. 28. 5. Precis simia, Wallengr., 3, p. 33. PLATE V. Fig. 6. Charaxes lasti, H. G. Smith. $, p. 39. 7. Charaxes achesmenes, Feld., §, p. 41. 8. Charaxes guderiana, Dewitz, £ , p. 42. PLATE VI. Fig. 9. Charaxes manica, n. sp., 2» P- 43. 10. Charaxes selousi, n. sp., 3, p. 45. 11. Lyccena exclusa, n. sp., 3, p. 47. 12. Lycmnesthcs lunidata, n. sp., 3, p. 51. 13. Chrysorychia cruenta, n. sp., 3, p. 55. 14. Durbania puellaris, n. sp., 2> P- 59- 15. Alcena nyassa, Hewits., §, p. 61. 16. Cyclopides mineni, n. sp., p. 72. 17. Pamphila zimbazo, n. sp., 2» P- 74- 18. Pamphila chirala, n. sp., 2 > P- 76. 1 I have a nolo referring to a Zambesi specimen in the Oxford University Museum in 1867, which seems to agree with the Manica examples here recorded. |