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Show 68 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, (1871); and Afr. Lep. pt. i. p. 4, pi. iv. figs. 5 (3 )» 6, 7 (?) (1873). Two examples from Christmas Pass-a male captured on 1st March, and a female on 21st February. The latter has on the upperside the fore wings white and the hind wings pale yellow (rather deeper externally); and on the underside the glossy hind wings and apical hind-marginal border of the fore wings so slightly tinged with yellowish as to be almost as white as the disk of the fore wings. The female of this species evidently varies much in colouring, the example figured by Ward from Cameroon having the fore wing ochre-yellow on both surfaces while the hind wings are white; while one from Zambesi in the Hewitson Collection bad the upperside yellowish throughout. Just as the female E. argia (Fabr.) mimics Mylothris agathina (Cram.), so the female E. thalassina figured by Ward is a manifest imitator of the female Myl. poppea (Cram.), var. spica, Moschl., with ochre-yellow fore wings, while the Manica female of E. thalassina strongly resembles the female Myl. trimenia, Butl.1 Manica is the most southern station known to m e for this species. Mr. Selous noticed a good many males coursing rapidly along a thickly-wooded hillside, but only captured one. Genus CALLIDRYAS, Boisd. 129. CALLIDRYAS FLORELLA (Fabr.). 2 . Papilio florella, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 479. n. 159 (1775). Five males and five females from Christmas Pass and one female from Mineni Valley; the last-named example was taken on 16th March, but all the others from 12th to 24th February. All the males but one are strongly freckled on the underside, and all the females are of the yellow form. The male that differs from the rest has the underside not only more faintly freckled but also of a greener tint. Subfamily PAPILIONIN^E. Genus PAPILIO, Linn. 130. PAPILIO LEONIDAS, Fabr. Papilio similis, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. ix. figs. B, C (1779). Papilio leonidas, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 35. n. 103 (1793). The only example is a male, taken in Mineni Valley on 12th March. It agrees pretty closely with ordinary West-Coast specimens except that the tint of the greenish spots is yellower, and that the basal red stain on the underside of both fore and hind wings is considerably brighter and more extended. This latter difference also appears in two other males taken by Mr. Selous- one in the desert country south of the Mababe Eiver in August 1 A close mimicker of M. trimenia is Pieris ("JBclcnois") lasti, H. G. Smith, from Mombasa. M. poppea is similarly very.exactly copied by Papilio rhodope, Fabr., and M. agathina by P. thysa, Hopff. |
