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Show 1888.] FROM EQUATORIAL AFRICA. 69 72. CASTALIUS ISIS. Papilio isis, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 3. figs. 4, 5 (1773). 3. Stazione Bauri, September 1883; Monbuttu, July and August. 73. ZIZERA KNYSNA, var. Lyccena knysna, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc ser. iii. vol. i. p. 282 (1862). 6*. Wadelai, 13th January, 1887. A worn specimen, differing from the normal type in its greyer coloration, with silvery-blue scaling on the basal three-fourths, but most distinctly towards the base. 74. LYC-ENESTHES PRINCEPS. Lyccenesthes princeps, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 484 (1876). 2 . Tobbo, 22nd May, 1883. Originally described from Abyssinian examples. 75. HYREUS LINGEUS. Papilio lingeus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 379. F, G (1782). 3. Stazione Bauri, September 1883. 76. HYPOLYC-ENA (TATURA) PACHALICA, sp. n. Allied to H. philippus. Wings above deep rufous-brown, glossed with purple in male examples ; with a black marginal line; primaries with orange basicostal margin, and with greyish fringe, traversed by a darker central line ; secondaries with the usual black spots bounded by orange lunules above the tails, the anal spot flecked with pale metallic green ; a simple black spot between them, an abbreviated submarginal line, a line at the base of the fringe, the fringe, and tips of the tails white ; body black, the head varied with tawny scales : under surface of wings pale stone-grey ; a short bar at the end of each discoidal cell, a band across the disk, and a submarginal stripe bright reddish orange, edged with black and margined with whitish ; a white submarginal line, separated by an orange line from the black marginal line ; secondaries with an orange subcostal spot at basal third, the discal band elbowed and interrupted at the submedian vein, a short orange marginal band above the abdominal sinus; a dark grey band (also, less strongly indicated, on the primaries) tinted with orange towards costa, between the submarginal and marginal stripes; prsecaudal spots nearly as above, but the anal spot flecked with metallic leaden scales, the intermediate spot wanting : body below white, the legs barred with black. Expanse of wings 23-25 millim. 2d1 & If?. Wadelai, 29th March, 1887. A very distinct and pretty little species. A worn and broken female example of an apparently new Virachola, allied to V. anta, was obtained at Stazione Bauri in September 1883. |