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Show 1894.] MANICA, SOUTH-EAST AFRICA. 71 sides the hind-marginal spots (smaller than in typical echerioides) of the hind wings. The female differs similarly from the typical female as regards the size of the spots just mentioned, and the large ochre-yellow marking on the upperside of the hind wings is less of a patch and more of a band, being slightly wider near costa aud considerably wider on inner margin than in typical echerioides. The points of difference here noted in the male are in the direction of the allied larger species P. zoroastres, Druce (Ent. M. Mag. xiv. p. 226, 1878, 3), from Fernando Po. I have not seen this Butterfly ; but from a comparison of Mr. Druce's description with that of P. jacksoni, E. M. Sharpe (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1891, p. 188), and with the figure of the latter (op. cit. pi. xvii. fig. 1), I think there can be little doubt that the two are identical. P. jacksoni is recorded as a native of Kikuyu, British East Africa. The range of P. echerioides extends to Zanzibar, M. Ch. Oberthiir having figured (Etudes d'Ent. xiii. p. 10, pi. 2. fig. 6,1890) a female from "Ngourou" in that territory, which differs from more southern examples only in having the discocellular spot and sub-marginal spots in the fore wings, and the hind-marginal spots in the hind wings, all larger than usual. Family HESPERIIDJE. Genus CYCLOPIDES, Westw. 137. CYCLOPIDES METIS, Linn. c? . Papilio metis, Linn. Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 325. n. 143 (1764): and Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 792. n. 245 (1767). A single male from Christmas Pass. This is the most northern locality from which I have seen an example of this abundant South- African species, but Mr. Druce has recorded it from Angola, and Nyassa is given as the habitat of some specimens in the Hewitson Collection. 138. CYCLOPIDES WILLEMI (Wallengr.). 3 . Heteropter'us willemi, Wallengr. Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857-• Lep. Fhop. Caffr. p. 47. n. 2. Two males from Lusika Fiver, captured on 1st April. One of these has the spots of the discal series in the fore wings much larger than usual on the upperside. The first female of this species that I have seen w7as taken by Mr. A. W . Eriksson between the Cunene Fiver and Ovaquenyama Iron Mines in January-February, 1891. This example expands 1 in. 3 lin., and differs from the male in having the spots of the fore wing on the upperside larger and of a clearer and more decided yellow, especially those of the discal series ; while on the underside the hind wing and apex of the fore wing are of a brighter unobscured pale yellow, with fine and more sharply-defined black neuration, and in the fore wing the spots of the discal series, though smaller, are as complete as on the upperside, the 4th and |