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Show 758 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Nov. 3, NYMPHALID^E. 1. LlMNAS DORIPPUS. 6 2 • Euploea dorippus, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 48. figs. 1-4. d • "Inland from Berbera, April or May 1884."-Yerbury. If m y views of the relationship of this species to L. chrysippus and allies is correct, it will probably be found that typical L. dorippus does not range inland to any very great distance from the Somali coast, but that its place is occupied by its Indo-African representative. So far the two series before me fulfil m y expectations ; that received from Major Yerbury containing one male of each form, whereas that collected by Mr. Thrupp contains three pairs of the Indo-x\frican form (for which I propose the name of L. klugii) and none of L. dorippus. Mr. E. Lort-Phillips assures me, however, that three of the specimens were obtained within eighty miles inland from Berbera. 2. LlMNAS KLUGII. S • Euploea dorippus, var., Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 48. fig. 5. 6*. "2nd April, 1884." - Yerbury. 0* § . Inland, south of Berbera.-Thrupp. This is clearly the prevalent Limnas in Somali-land ; L. chrysippus and L.alcippus having, apparently, entirely disappeared, and L. dorippus being scarce and in all probability confined to the eastern coast. It therefore has been necessary to give a name to this form, since to speak of it as L. dorippus is not in accordance with actual fact. 3. YPTHIMA ASTEROPE. Hipparchia asterope, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 29. figs. 11-14 (1832). Four specimens, three of them a good deal worn, showing that they had been long on the wing. NEOCffiNYRA, gen. nov. Aspect of Pseudonympha ; neuration of Ypthima, excepting that only the costal vein is swollen at the base; palpi and antennae of Ccenyra, from which, however, it is at once distinguished by the form of the discoidal cell of primaries, which does not project in front as in Ccenyra, so that (as in Ypthima) the second subcostal branch is emitted at a considerable distance beyond the cell: it also differs in having no trace of the large oval blackish brand which occurs on the inner border of the primaries in the male of Ccenyra. 4. NEOCCENYRA DUPLEX, sp. n. Upper surface smoky greyish-brown, body darker than the wings, the tegulae slightly rufous in front in the male, wholly rufous in the female : primaries of both sexes with a large pyriform rufous patch ' covering the anterior part of the disk and enclosing a subapical 1 This patch is partly greyish in front in the male, but its outline is still clearly visible. |