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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 53 91. DEUDORIX CJERULEA, H. H. Druce. 3 2 • Deudorix ccerulea, H. H. Druce, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. v. p. 28 (1890). 3. Deudorix obscurata, Trim. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 84. n. 61, pi. ix. fig. 13. A single male, captured in the Mineni Valley on the 11th March, and a female on the 13th. Mr. Druce pointed out the identity of my D. obscurata with his previously described D. ccerulea in Ent. M. Mag, 1892, p. 65, and reference to his description shows him to be right. His specimens were from Lagos, Western Africa, while the type of my D. obscurata was from Omrora on the border of North Ovampoland. Genus HYPOLYC^NA, Feld. 92. HYPOLYCENA CECULUS (Hopff.). lolaus cceculus, Hopff. Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berl. 1855, p. 642. n. 17. Four males and three females from the Mineni Valley, taken from March 7th to 21st. These are the largest specimens that I have seen, the male expanding 1 in. 4^-5| lin., and the female 1 in. 6- 6i lin. While the males do not incline to the more violaceous tint of the upperside so noticeable in the examples recorded by me from North Ovampoland (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 85), yet both sexes resemble the latter, and differ from the usual East- African specimens, in the much redder and decidedly broader transverse streaks of the underside, though none has these markings so strongly developed as in the supposed seasonal form figured by me loc. cit. (pi. ix. fig. 14). It would thus appear probable that on the eastern side the seasonal forms differ less widely than they do on the western. 93. HYPOLYCENA PHILIPPUS (Fabr.). Hesperia philippus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 283. n. 87 (1793). Three specimens from Christinas Pass, and four from the Mineni Valley. Genus IOLAUS, Hiibn. 94. IOLAUS SIDUS, Trim. folaus sidus, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 3rd ser. ii. p. 176 (1864). A single example of each sex from Christmas Pass. The female is one of the largest 1 have seen, expanding 1 in. 5^ lin., and has the red stripes of the underside much broader than in any other specimen that has come under my notice. It was captured on 22nd February, settled on the same bush as the I. aphnnoides mentioned below. |