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Show 1885.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM SOMALI-LAND. 775 Three male specimens. More than eighty miles south of Berbera. -Thrupp, 48. NEPHERONIA ARABICA. Eronia buquetii, var. arabica, HopfFer in Peters' Reise nach Mossambique, Zool. v. p. 363, var. ft (1862). Nepheronia arabica, Butler, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 492, n. 37. One female. More than eighty miles southwards of Berbera.- Thrupp. HESPERIIDJE. 49. HESPERIA ANCHISES. Lsmene anchises, Gerstaecker in Van der Decken's Reisen in Ost- Africa, iii. p. 374, n. 29, pi. xv. figs. 6, 6 a (1873). One pair, 23rd December.-Thrupp. 50. CYCLOPIDES CHELES. Cyclopides cheles, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 42, n. 5 (1868). One male.-Thrupp. Allied to C. mene of Cramer. 51. CARTEROCEPHALUS CALLICLES. Cyclopides callicles, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 42, n. 6 (1868). Two males.-Thrupp. Nearest to C. macomo. The two preceding species were originally described from specimens received from Damara-land. W e have C. callicles also from Kinsembo. 52. THANAOS D.LEL.EL.E. Pterygospidea djalala, Wallengren, Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 54 (1857). One damaged specimen.-Thrupp. AGARISTID^E. 53. EuSEMIA THRUPPI, Sp. n. 2 . Allied to E. superba1, but the spots on the thorax and at base of primaries yellow, the latter extending to basal fourth, where they form a sinuous series ; the first pair of larger spots differing in that the anterior spot is of only about a third the size of that in E. superba, and the lower spot is cuneiform and rests on the inner margin ; the other spots on the wing differ but little: secondaries with the apical two thirds orange-ochreous, changing below the cell to rose-red ; external border about half the width of that of E. superba, and without the white apical spot of that species; abdomen shining fulvous, becoming redder towards the base, not banded with black as in all the allied species. Expanse of wings 80 millim. One female. More than eighty miles south of Berbera.-Thrupp. 1 In the Museum from Natal, Zulu Land, and Nyanza, |