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Show 760 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Nov. 3, bands dull reddish clay-brown ; the last-mentioned band, however, with its outer two fifths dull chocolate, edged on both sides with black and with no trace of white spots ; the white intermediate bands and the spots beyond the discal band cream-coloured instead of pure white ; marginal border dull ochreous crossed by black veins ; marginal black-edged stripe dull sordid whitish, its inner edge not undulated. Expanse of wings 52 millim. One male, taken on the 29th December.-Thrupp. This is probably the H. anvatara of Lefebvre (Vo)r. Abyss., Zool. vi. p. 3M0), but not of Boisduval. A pair of this species, from Aden, has recently been sent to us by Major Yerbury, in which the discal black band on the secondaries is slightly broader than in the Somali male, and the discal band below has its outer half dull chocolate-coloured ; but in every other respect they correspond with it. The species comes nearest to H. cora, Feisth., but is larger, brighter in colouring above, has narrower black bands* and much wider submarginal spots on the secondaries : -on the under surface it is more clearly coloured throughout, the external area of primaries is not red-brown, and the bands on the secondaries are decidedly paler, including the marginal stripe, which in H. cora is dull brown; the central white band is also more angular. 9. HAMANUMIDA D^EDALUS. Papilio dadalus, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 482, n. 174 (17/5). More than eighty miles S. of Berbera.- Thrupp. One broken example, of the variety with clay-coloured under surface, upon which the wdiite spots are extremely ill-defined. Every intergrade between this, the true IT. dadalus, and the H. meleagris of Cramer, exists in Abyssinia, and probably in all localities where the species occurs : any attempt to separate the two extremes, as some Lepidopterists have attempted to do, into two species, will probably be futile. 10. ACR^EA CHILO. Acraa chilo, Godman, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 184, pi. xix. figs. 4, 5. Dura, December 23rd.-Lort-Phillips. Two male examples were obtained. 11. ACR^A BRJESIA. Acraa brasia, Godman, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 538, n. 4. One male, two females.-Lort-Phillips. I cannot see sufficient grounds for separating this from the Kilimanjaro species, the only differences being that the outer margins of the wings are a little less arched and the spots beyond the cell of primaries rather less oblique ; characters which would probably prove to be inconstant if one possessed a good series. 12. ACR^JA MIRABILIS, u. sp. (Plate XL VII. fig. 1.) Wings above bright tawny with rose-coloured shot (probably |