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Show 58 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, that, of Mr. Selous's five specimens, two have this feature developed than in the figure of T. lasti, one has it about the same, one has it considerably less, and in the last (in which the fore-wing border is abnormally broad) its only trace is some sparse black scales. As pointed out in my description of this species (S.-Afr. Butt. ii. pp. 211-212), the fuscous markings of the upperside are variable in the Natalian typical form, and this tendency seems more marked farther to the north-east. 104. PENTILA PEUCETIA, Hewits. Pentila peucetia, Hewits. Exot. Butt. iii. p. 119, pi. 60. fig. 3 (1866). Four examples from the Mineni Valley and ten from the Vunduzi Fiver. Noted as always found in shady forest, flying very slowly, and towards sunset settling very often. The locality of the type is given by Hewitson as the Zambesi, but in Mr. Kirby's Catalogue of the Hewitson Collection (1879, p. 180) the three specimens recorded are respectively from " Gaboon, Calabar, and Lake Nyassa," showing a very wide range for the species. An example received from the Fev. H. Junod was taken at Morakwen, Delagoa Bay, on 30th March, 1891; it is the only one known to me from an extra-tropical locality. There is little or no variation observable among Mr. Selous's specimens, and the sexes differ only in size. I find this Butterfly, as well as its close ally P. peuceda (H. G. Smith), from Mombasa, and P. muhata, Dewitz, from Mukenge and Cameroons, inseparable generically from P. abraxas and P. tropicalis, and do not see on what grounds Messrs. Kirby and Smith (op. cit. Lycaen. Afr. pis. ii. & ix. pp. 3 & 37) have placed them in Butler's genus Larinopoda (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1871, p. 172), the type of which presents a wide difference from them both in palpi and neuration. Genus DURBANIA, Trim. 105. DURBANIA HILDEGARDA (Kirby). 3 . Teriomima (?) hildegarda, Kirby, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, xix. p. 367 (1887); and Smith & Kirbv, Ehop. Exot. i. Lycam. Afr. p. 16, pi. iv. figs. 7, 8 (1888) \ Fifteen specimens were taken in the Mineni Valley from the 9th to 27th March, and two at the Lusika Fiver on 1st April; four from the former and one from the latter locality are females. Mr. Selous notes that this Butterfly was of very slow flight, and congregated in numbers on the stems of a tall herbaceous plant with blue flowers. The males agree fairly with the figure above cited/which represents an example from Ashanti, but on the upperside are of a slightly 1 In op. cit. p. 46 (1890) Messrs. Smith and Kirby note that T. (?) hildegarda may be included in the genus Durbania. |