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Show 50 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, known as L. plinius, Fabr., is identical with L. telicanus, and that accordingly the range of the latter species must be extended from Aden eastward over all the Oriental Begion to Formosa, and also to the Solomon Islands. The distribution of this Butterfly over the Old World is thus rendered almost coextensive with that of L. bcetica. 83. LYOENA LINGEUS (Cram.). Papilio lingeus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. t. ccclxxix. figs. F, G (1782). Three examples from Christmas Pass. 84. LYCTENA ANTINORII, Oberth. Lyccena antinorii, Oberth. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, xviii. p. 731, t. ix. fig. 3 (1883). The only individual captured is a male, met with in Christmas Pass on 6th March. This specimen differs in one point from Oberthiir's figure of the type, viz. the two series of submarginal brownish-fuscous lunules are much less regular, especially in the fore wings, and are interrupted in two or three places. It is interesting to find this little-known Lyccena, which was discovered in Shoa, Abyssinia, by the late Marquis Antinori, in 1879, occurring so far to the south as Manica. The female appears to be still unknown. From the pattern of the underside, this species is clearly related to the group of L. juba, Fabr., but the violaceous tint of the upperside is most like that of the male L. lingeus. 85. LYCCENA POGGEI (Dewitz). 3. Plebeius poggei, Dewitz, Nov. Act. Leop.-Carol. Akad. Naturf. xli. p. 205, pi. xxvi. fig. 7 (1879). Of this remarkable species, founded on a single male discovered by Dr. Pogge in Angola, there are four males in the collection, all taken at Christmas Pass, on the 6th March, drinking at the edge of water. The ochraceous pink-shot upperside, with the very strongly marked discal series of seven unequal longitudinal black streaks between the nervules of the fore wings, renders this species easily recognizable; the underside nearly resembles that of L. antinorii, but is more heavily marked. A near ally is L. artemenes, Mabille, from Madagascar, which, judging from the figures (3 and 4) on pi. xxvii. of the " Lepidoptcres " volume of Grandidier's 'Histoire Physique etc. de Madagascar,' has the black streaks much thinner and longer, and the cilia very feebly fuscous-varied in the fore wings, while the dark markings of the underside are mostly white-centred instead of uniform brownish grey. Mr. A. G. Butler notes (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, v. p. 337 (1880)) that in the nature of the internervular black streaks the Madagascar species agrees with the West-African L. juba, Fabr. |
