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Show 570 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [June 19, 68. AXIOCERSES PERION. Papilio perion, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. ccclxxix. B, C (1782). o*, Steppes N.W. of Longari, Laitsipia. 69. ClGARITIS ABBOTTII. Chrysophanus abbottii, Holland, Entomologist, xxv. (Suppl.) p. 90 (1892). Guaso. 70. MYLOTHRIS AGATHINA. Papilio agathina, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. ccxxxvii. D, E (1782). Mbololo near summit, 5600 feet; Kibwezi. 71. MYLOTHRIS RUPPELLII. Pieris ruppellii, Koch, Indo-Austr. Lep. Fauna, p. 88 (1865). 2, Alng'aria, Laitsipia. 72. NYCHITONA ALCESTA. Papilio alcesta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. ccclxxix. A (1782). Ngatana, December and January. 73. COLIAS EDUSA, var. ELECTRA. Papilio electra, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 764. n. 101 (1767). Steppes N.W. of Longari; Thagana, in woods ; Thegu, in parkland ; Mt. Kenya, below the old ice-fall, 10,500 feet; Karati, Konu, Ukikuya, beside swamp ; Thiriati, Konu, on shrub-covered plateau. In British East Africa this species is very variable, both in size and depth of colour: one of the males from the first-mentioned locality has all the appearance of typical C. edusa (nor do I believe that it possesses a character to distinguish it therefrom), and none of the distinctive points indicated in Trimen's ' South African Butterflies' avail to separate it, seeing that it does not possess them. The " inward nervular dentations of the hind-marginal border " are very variable in both types; indeed a male in the Museum from Malta shows stronger dentations than those normally exhibited in C. electra, whilst in the specimen above mentioned they are hardly so well marked as in the majority of typical C. edusa, and a specimen in the Museum from Kilimanjaro, though dark in colour and smaller than usual, shows no inward dentation of the border. 74. TERIAS BRIGITTA. Papilio brigitta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. cccxxxi. B, C (1782). Steppes N. of Thegu. 75. TERIAS ZOE. Terias zoe, Hopffer, Ber. Verb.. Ak. Berl. 1855, p. 640. n. 5 ; Peters, Reise nach Mossamb., Zool. pi. 23. figs. 10, 11 (1862). |