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Show 1891.] FROM SOUTH-WESTERN AFRICA. 107 median white or whitish band bearing black spots externally, and also by the completeness and strong upper curve of the discal series of vitreous spots in the fore wings. Though not distantly related to P. bhagava (Moore), P. jamesoni is nearer to an allied form, from Coimbatoor and Moulmein, in the British Museum, but differs from the latter in its paler yellower ground-colour, larger fore-wing spots (with better developed black edges), whiter, infeiiorly narrowed (instead of widened) hind-wing band, and varied instead of plain cilia. Miss E. M . Sharpe describes this species as inhabiting the Umvuli, a river in Ma«huna-land. Omrora (August). Six male specimens. Genus HESPERIA, Fabr. 124. HESPERIA FORESTAN ((ham.). Papilio for estan, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. cccxci. ff. E, F(1782). Otiembora (November-December). One male example. 125. HESPERIA PISISTRATUS, Fabr. Hesperia pisistratus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 345. n. 311 (I 793). Omrora (November). One female example. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE VIII. Fig. 1. Acrcea atolmis, 8, P- 63. 2. atolmis, § . 3. atolmis, var. £ . 4. atolmis, 8> Summer or Wet-Season Form (acontias, Westw.). 5. felina, 8> P- 65. 6. felina, § • 7. onerata, 8. P- 67. 8, 8 a. onerata, 2 • 9. asema, 8 > P- 68. 10.10 a. asema, § • PLATE IX. Fig. 11. Acrcea ambigua, 2 > P- 70. 12. Crenis natalensis, var. 8 > P- 76. 13. Deudorix obscurata, 8> P- 84. 14. Hyfolycana cceculus, J, Summer or Wet-Season Form, p. 85. 15. Aphnceus erikssoni, $, p. 86. 16. modest us, 8 > P- 87. 17. Zeritis damarensis, 8 > P- 90. 18. Erikssonia acrceina, 8, P- 92. 19. acrceina, § . 20. acrceina, var. 8 • 21. Papilio morania, var. 8> P- 100. 22. Pyrgus secessus, 8 > P- ^ 02. 23. Pamphila ohumbrata, 8, p- 103. 2254.. PAtbearnytgioss vpeindoesaa j,a m8e.s oPn-i 1,0 58.< P- 106, |