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Show 1888.] FROM EQUATORIAL AFRICA. 57 KHOPALOCERA. NYMPHALIDiE. EUPLCEIN-E. 1. LlMNAS CHRYSIPPUS. Papilio chrysippus, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 263 (1764). 3 2 • Kangasi, 7th and 20th July; 2 • Foda, 26th November, 1885, Stazione Gadda, 20th February, 1886; 3 ?. Monbuttu, July and August (1886?); Wadelai, 12th January, 5th and 11th March, 1887. From this form to its variety L. alcippoides there is a perfect transitional series commencing with a mere whitening of the median branches of the secondaries and gradually increasing to a well-defined white patch. Var. ALCIPPOIDES, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 238, pi. xxxi. fig. 1. 3 2 • Kangasi, 17th and 25th July and 21st November, 1883 ; 3 • Stazione Gadda, 7th May, 1884 ; 3 2 • Foda, 23rd November, 1885 ; Monbuttu, July and August; Wadelai, 12th and 13th January, 1887. This is also linked by intermediate steps to L. alcippus : the latter therefore, though a good constant species on the West Coast from Sierra Leone northwards, can here, as at Aden, be only regarded as a variety of L. chrysippus. Var. ALCIPPUS, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. cxxvii. E, F (1779). o* 2- Tobbo, 21st M a y ; Kangasi, 14th, 17th, 20th, 22nd, 25th, and 27th July ; 12th and 17th October; 14th, 18th, aud 21st November; Stazione Bauri, September 1883; Stazione Gadda, 26th January, 1884; Foda, 1st November, 1885; Wadelai, 13th and 27th January, 1887 ; Monbuttu in July and August. 2. LIMNAS KLUGII. Limnas klugii, Butler, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 758. n. 2. 2 . Foda, 17th and 23rd November, 1885. Three examples of this species were obtained at Foda; none elsewhere. No intermediates tending to link it to L. chrysippus exist in the collection, so that probably it does not interbreed with the latter in any of the localities visited. 3. TlRUMALA PETIVERANA. Danais limniace, var. petiverana, Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 93, pi. 12. fig. 1 (1847). Stazione Bauri, September 1883; Kangasi, 27th July and 14th November, 1883 ; Monbuttu, in July and August. This is a common South-western form. 4. AMAURIS HYALITES. Amauris hyalites, Butler, Cist. Ent. i. p. 209 (1874). 3 2- Kangasi, 17th and 27th July, 1883. |