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Show 74 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, smaller (and in hind wings differently disposed) spots ; and on the underside by the greatly reduced and broken-up apical yellow in the fore wings, and larger and more numerous black spots and black (instead of yellow) inner-marginal fold in the hind wings. Genus PAMPHILA, Fabr. 145. P A M P H I L A MORANTII, Trim. 2 . Pamphila morantii, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1873, p. 112 ; and d, S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 311, pi. 12. fig. 3 (1889). A single male, captured in Mineni Valley on 8th March, belongs to the vaiiation P. ranoha, Westw., in which the underside colouring is yellow-ochreous, without ferruginous tinge. 146, PAMPHILA HARONA, Westw. Pamphila harona, Westw., App. Oates's Matabele-land, p. 353. n. 75 (1881). The six males in the collection (two from Umtali Eiver, 28th February, and four from Mineni Valley, 7th to 25th March) differ from Westwood's description (and from two examples agreeing with this which were taken by Mr. Selous in 18S3-84 in some part of the South-Tropical tract not recorded) in the following particulars, viz. :-larger size; better development of the dark markings of its upperside (especially of the lower basal and discocellular markings of the fore wings, and the hind-marginal border of the hind wings), the two Umtali specimens and one of those from the Mineni Valley having them more strongly developed than the rest; and more or less reddish-tinged underside of the hind wings and apex of the fore wings, with a greater or less tendency to inter-nervular creamy longitudinal stripes. This pale striping is least apparent in a specimen from Mineni Valley which ou the upperside is nearest to the type-form; it is better indicated in those already mentioned as most strongly dark-marked on the upperside; and in two Mineni Valley examples, which present intermediate upperside markings, it is strikingly pronouuced. The specimens on which this species was founded are recorded (I. c.) as taken by the late Mr. F. Oates near the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi, in January. Mr. Selous notes this Butterfly as being rather numerous, very swift in flight, but frequently settling in bushes, or drinking at the water's edge. 147. PAMPHILA ZIMBAZO, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 17, 2 •) Allied to P. harona and to P. morantii. Exp. al.(3) 1 in. 1-2 lin.; ( ? ) 1 in. 1|-2| lin. 3 . Blackish-brown, with in each wing an ochre-yellow transverse discal band, long and irregular in fore wing, short and regular in hind wing. Fore wing: basal half of costa broadly clouded with ochre-yellow; discal band of moderate width, beginning well beyond middle just below costa, elbowed outwardly and narrowed |
