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Show 20 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, series of seven ocelli are very minute and subobsolete on the underside. In addition to the median narrow brown fascia on the underside (described as " rufous " by Hewitson), there is a shorter parallel pre-median one, variable in distinctness but well marked in one example. This species does not appear to have been met with so far to the South before :iow. It has a very wide range, the locality of the examples on which the species was founded being the White Nile ; while Fernando Po, Gold Coast, and Angola are the habitats given in Kirby's ' Catalogue of the Hewitson Collection ' (p. 125), and Mr. Butler (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 59) records two examples as sent by Emin Pasha from two localities in the Equatorial Province of Central Africa. The South-African Museum possesses two specimens taken at Sierra Leone. Genus PHYSC^NEURA, Wallengr. 7. P H Y S C E N E U R A PIONE, Godm. (Plate IV. fig. 1, <S .) Physcceneura pione, Godm. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1880, p. 183, pi. xix. figs. 2, 3 [ $ ]. This ally of P. panda (Boisd.), which in the creamy-white of the upperside exhibits some approach to P. leda (Gerst.), from Mombasa, was described from a single female example, recorded as taken by M r . J. T. Last in the Gnuru Hills, opposite Zanzibar. A good series is in the collection from Manica under notice, a few having been taken in Christmas Pass but many more in the Mineni Valley. I give the following description of the male :- <$ . Exp. al. 1 in. 4-6 lin. Creamy-ivhite, with fuscous borders. Fore wing : fuscous border rather narrow from base as far as extremity of discoidal cell, but broad apically and thence gradually narrowing to posterior angle; inner margin with a broad fuscous border from base, bounded superiorly by median nervure and its 1st nervule, and narrowing abruptly just before posterior angle, where it joins hind-marginal border; along inner edge of hind-marginal border, between 1st and 3rd median nervules, two more or less distinct black spots ; basal swelling of costal nervure ochre-yellow, traces of the striola-tion of the underside visible, chiefly in basal half ; two submarginal black streaks, parallel and close together, just perceptible in fuscous border. Hind wing : costa narrowly and faintly clouded with fuscous; apex and hind margin with a rather broad fuscous border, irregular along its inner edge, where it is more or less distinctly marked by a series of black spots; submarginal streaks as in fore wing, except that they are bordered, very unequally and interruptedly, towards anal angle by two white streaks; striolation of underside very apparent along inner-marginal area. Cilia whitish. UNDERSIDE.'-Creamy, slightly yellower than upperside ; each wino-along costal and inner-marginal borders transversely marked with black striolae of variable length and thickness (here and there confluent), and with a submarginal series of ochre-yellow ocelli |