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Show 1894.] MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM MANICA. 607 footnote) on my paper descriptive of the collection of Manica Butterflies formed by Mr. F. C. Selous, I wish to note m y regret that-unaware, of course, of what species had been described in Mr. Butler's then unpublished paper on Mr. Johnston's Nyasa-land collection-I should have redescribed as new Charaxes whytei, Butl. (as C. selousi), and Castalius hypoleucus, Butl. (as Lyccena exclusa). As to these two species there can be no doubt attaching to Mr. Butler's identification; but with respect to his opinion that Cyclopides mineni, mihi,= Ceratrichia stellata, Mabille, and that Pamphila zimbazo, mihi,=P. ranoha, Westw., I do not feel at all sure that the synonymy is accurate. It is true that I have not seen the type either of Mabille's or of Westwood's species, and, unfortunately, the diagnosis in each case is very brief and leaves much to be desired ; but I wish to specify here the apparent discrepancies between the two insects that 1 have described and the respective diagnoses of Mabille's and Westwood's species. " 1 . In the first place, m y Cyclopides mineni is certainly not a Ceratrichia; although, as I have remarked (I. c. p. 72), its general aspect and markings remind one of that genus, the short (instead of very long) antennae at once indicate a very distant relationship. M . Mabille (Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxxv. p. lxv, 1891) describes his Cer. stellata as exhibiting ' huit points blancs vitres' in the fore wings, and notes the position of five of them (including ' deux dans la cellule') ; m y Cyc. mineni has ten small but well-defined spots, including two in the discoidal cell. He adds ' dessous des ailes inferieures avec la cote rousse'; in m y insect this part (including the discoidal cell) is dull pale yellow, ' inferieures a, bord abdominal poudre de jaune'; in Cyc. mineni all the hind wing is yellow, ' un point blanc dans la cellule et une rangee circulaire de huit autres points semblables plus petits'; in Cyc. mineni the discocellular spot is fuscous, and the discal series consists of seven white spots rather large and very conspicuous. " 2. Westwood's diagnosis of Pamphila ranoha (App. Oates's Matabeleland, p. 353) agrees very fairly with m y P. zimbazo as far as the upperside of the wings is concerned ; but ' alis posticis fulvis nigro-guttatis' is not applicable to the underside in my species, which (as noted by me, I. c. p. 75) is dull pale ochre-yellow, with a tinge of olivaceous brown or less reddish incompletely fuscous-edged spots. " A s stated in m y ' S. Afr. Butt.' (iii. p. 311), I refer P. ranoha, Westw., to a variety of P. morantii, mihi; but, until comparison with Westwood's type can be made, I admit that the identification is only provisional. " It is to be wished that the excellent figures illustratiug my paper had given the undersides of the species concerned, as in that case the differences above pointed out could be more readily observed. " There is a small but not unimportant mistake in the figure of the underside of Chrysorychia cruenta (pi. vi. fig. 13), where the longitudinal white streak, which is actually a marking of the |