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Show 18 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, cenea. Among the rarer and more interesting species are :-Phys-cceneura pione and Melanitis libya (both hitherto represented by single specimens) ; Pseudonympha vigilans, previously unknown to extend into the tropical area ; Acrcea asema and A. acrita ; Planema johnstoni, not hitherto known from south of Usambara ; Precis simia (of which only the type and one other South-African example had before been recorded); Precis artaxia ; Charaxes lasti ( $ ), C. azota, C. pollux (not apparently received before from any part on or near the East Coast), and C. guderiana ( $ ) ; Lyccena antinorii and L. poggei ; Teracolus celimene ; Thymelicus capanas ; Abantis zambesina ; and Hesperia unicolor. The apparently undescribed species are the following, viz.:- Nyinphalidse. (Nymphalinse.) Charaxes manica, p. 43. „ selousi, p. 45. Lycyenidse. Lyccena exclusa \ p. 47. Lyccenesthes lunidata, p. 51. Chrysorychia cruenta, p. 55. Durbania puellaris, p. 59. Hesperidae. Cyclopides mineni, p. 72. Pamphila zimbazo, p. 74. „ chirala, p. 76. Mr. Selous personally brought down his collections towards the close of last year, and I thus had the advantage of obtaining and writing down his notes on the habits of each species as I unpacked the specimens. Family NYMPH A LID M. Subfamily DANAINJE. Genus DANAIS, Latr. 1. DANAIS CHRYSIPPUS (Linn.). Three of the four specimens are of the ordinary typical form, but the fourth, taken at Sarmento on the Pungwe Eiver, is of the var. alcippus, Cram., and has the white area in the hind wings almost as largely developed as in the West-African specimens. Genus AMAURIS, Hiibn. 2. A M A U R I S ECHERIA (Stoll). The two specimens (male and female) were taken at Christmas Pass in February. They belong to the var. albimaculata, Butl., 1 In a footnote (p. 48) I have described as Lyccena mashuna a close ally of this species previously discovered by M r . Selous in the adjacent district of Mashuna- |