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Show 54 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, 95. IOLAUS BOWKERI, Trim. Iolaus bowkeri, Trim. loc. cit. p. 176 (1864). Two examples from Christmas Pass and three from the Mineni Valley. 96. IOLAUS APHN.EOIDES, Trim. Iolaus aphnceoides, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 110; Hewits. 111. D. Lep., Suppl. pi. iv a. figs. 50, 51 (1878). One male captured at Christmas Pass on 22nd February. Of this very rare though somewhat widely distributed species I have seen only seven examples, viz. : the types (male and female) taken near Grahamstown, Cape Colony; a male from the Trans-Keian territory ; a female from Panda-ma-Tenka, near the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi; two females from Lake Nyassa (Hewitson Collection); and the male now under noticel. Mr. Selous's example was taken at the edge of a ravine; it settled repeatedly on the same bush. Genus MYRINA, Fabr. 97. M Y R I N A FICEDULA, Trim. Myrina ficedtda, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1879, p. 324. Two females from Christmas Pass, agreeing with ordinary South-African specimens. Genus APHN^EUS, Hiibn. 98. APHN^EUS MASILIKAZI (Wallengr.). Spindasis masilikazi, Wallengr. K. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857- Lep. Ehop. Caffr. p. 45. Three specimens (2 males and a female) from the Mineni Valley, and three (females) from near Vunduzi Biver. These were taken on blue flowers at the side of the road. 99. APHNJATS HOMEYERI, Dewitz. Aphnceus homeyeri, Dewitz, Deutsch. ent. Zeitschx. xxx. p. 429, pi. ii. figs. 5, 5 a, 5 b, 5 c (1887); Trim. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1891, p. 88. n. 70. A female from Sikuva Eiver (March 4th), and two males and 1 A description with very carefully executed coloured figures of a very closely allied form (found near Durban, Natal, in March 1893) have been sent m e by Mr. A. E. Hunt. In this example the orange-yellow stripes and borders of the underside are reduced to almost linear form, the basal stripe indeed bein<* wanting except for its lower inner-marginal portion in the hind wing, and the subbasal one represented by a discocellular short streak in each wing. The common submarginal series of black spots, and the hind-marginal black spots of the hind wing, are quite as in /. aphnceoides ; but the costa of the fore wing has an orange linear edging, and the inner margin of the hind wing bears a small subbasal orange spot. It seems possible that this m a y prove to be a seasonal variation of I. aphnceoides, but at present I a m inclined to regard it as a sport of that species. |