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Show 1885.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM SOMALI-LAND. 761 rose-red in life) ; extremities of the veins black * primaries with black spot at the end of cell in the male ; the female has a black >-shaped marking in the cell and a black dash at the end ; both sexes have an oblique subapical oval white patch on a black ground: secondaries, owing to their transparency, showing a band just before the middle ; in the females, however, part of the black outer edge of this band actually exists on the upper surface ; this sex also shows a small spot in the cell and a larger spot divided by the upper discocellular veinlet; outer border rather narrowly black, with a paler central stripe: head and thorax tawny, the latter sprinkled with whitish scales ; abdomen of male white banded with sulphur yellow, of the female tawny, banded with black and edged with yellow. Primaries below soft tawny, the male with two black discoidal spots, the female with only the terminal black dash of the upper surface ; an oblique oval subapical white patch edged internally with black ; beyond it and towards the outer margin throughout the veins are black broadly bordered with ash-grey and separated towards the apex solely by short black internervular dashes ; secondaries white; basal area spotted with rose-colour ; a black subbasal transverse dash from the costal margin to the cell and two or three black subbasal spots; an ash-grey subangulated central band, spotted with tawny and rose-red, margined on both sides with black and enclosing a black spot ; veins upon external area black ; the latter in the male has no decided inner edge, but is of a pale buff tint, shading into white towards outer margin ; in the female, on the other hand, it is sharply defined by a black line and is of a silver-grey tint; in both sexes this area encloses a series of internervular pyramidal orange dashes and is bounded externally by two black lines. Body of male below white, palpi and legs in front buff, sides of pectus spotted with rose-red ; body of female below entirely different, the pectus being white, spotted with golden buff similar to the colour of the palpi and front of legs, and the venter golden yellow with two central longitudinal black lines. Expanse of wings, 6* 37-43 millim., $ 47 millim. Three males. Bunder Maria, 27th April, 1884.-Yerbury. One female. More than 80 miles S. of Berbera.-Thrupp. This marvellously distinct and pretty little species belongs to the group to which the name Telchinia has been given, but the banding of the under surface is quite unique. LYC^ENID^E. 13. POLYOMMATUS BJETICUS. Papilio baticus, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 789, n. 226 (1767). cS 2 •-Thrupp. 14. CATOCHRYSOPS ASOPUS. Lycana asopus, Hopffer, Ber. Verh. Ak. Berl. 1855, p. 642; Peters' Reise n. Mossamb., Zool. v. p. 410, pi. 26. figs. 13-15 (1S62). One male, var.-Thrupp. |