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Show ^881.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM SOCOTRA. 177 PYRAMEIS CARDUI. Papilio cardui, Linnajus, Fauna Suecica, p. 276, n. 1054 (1761). A fragment of this cosmopolitan species. ACR^A NEOBULE. (Plate XVIII. fig. 5.) Acra?a neobule, Doubleday & Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. 19. fig. 3 (1848). (No. 746.) One female of this species was caught; it differs from specimens which 1 have examined from the Congo and Abyssinia in the greater size of all the black spots on its wings, and in having the base of the secondaries black spotted with red, owing to the confluence of the black markings. These differences, however, may be due to simple variation; and therefore it would not) e safe, with only one specimen, to regard them as specific characters. HYPANIS CORA. (Plate XVIII. fig. 4.) Hypanis cora, Feisthamel, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1850, p. 249. (No. 726.) A pair of this species, only differing from South-African specimens in the slightly wider red-brown belts on the under surface of the secondaries and the consequently narrower bands of white spots. It would be impossible to decide from a single pair whether these apparently trivial distinctions are constant and confined to the island whence the specimens were obtained. PAPILIONID^E. TERACOLUS NIVEUS, sp. n. (Plate XVIII. fig. 1.) (2 No. 721.) 3 • Nearest to T. evagore, demagore, and liagore, but differing from all in the considerably smaller extent of the orange apical patch on the primaries. Wings above snow-white; primaries above with a narrow triangular orange apical patch from costa to third median branch, bounded externally by five hastate black spots and in front by an abbreviated black costal line: body black, thorax clothed with silvery hairs, abdomen cream-coloured at the sides. Under surface white, each wing with a small black dot at the end of the cell, primaries indistinctly showing the orange of the upper surface through their texture ; secondaries with a greyish costal spot, and one or two dots of the same colour on the disk beyond the cell, basi-abdominal area slightly speckled with black. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. $ . Snow-white, base speckled with blackish : primaries above with a dot at the end of the cell, four spots in an oblique series, more than halfway between the cell and apex, and four or five squamose marginal spots between the apex and the third median branch, black ; secondaries with four decreasing marginal black spots between the apex and the second median branch : body blackish, clothed with PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1881, No. XII. 12 |