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Show 78 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jail. 16, 153. PAMPHILA RONCILGONIS (Plotz). Hesperia roncilgonis, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, pp. 450-51. 3 2 • Pamphila roncilgonis, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1893, p. 139, pi. viii. fig. 11 [ 3 ]• Fourteen examples, three only of which are females, from Umtali (1), Christmas Pass (1), Mineni Valley (4), Lopodzi Fiver (1), and Vuuduzi Fiver (7). All these specimens are more or less worn, the best being from the last-named locality (5th to 12th April). The females differ from the Delagoa Bay example described by me (I.e. pp. 140-41) in wanting the minute additional transparent spot in the fore wings between the 5th subcostal and upper radial nervules ; and the largest and freshest of them also is nearer to the male in the fulvous-ochreous violaceous-glossed hind wings and apex of fore wings on the underside. Mr. Selous notes this species as chiefly observed on flowers- especially on the tall spikes of blue flowers above mentioned as attracting so many Lyccenidce. One specimen was captured while drinking at the water's edge. 154. PAMPHILA HOTTENTOTA (Latr.). 3. Hesperia hottentota, Latr. Encycl. Meth. ix. p. 777. n. 133 (1822). 3 2 • Hesperia zetterstedti, Wallengr. 1. c. p. 49. n. 3 (1857). 3 2 • Pamphila hottentota, Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. hi. p. 314. n. 346, pi. 11. figs. 8,8 a (1889). Two specimens from Christmas Pass, two from the Mineni Valley, and one specimen from the Vunduzi Fiver, all (8 males, 2 females) belonging to the var. zetterstedti, so widely spread over all Eastern South Africa. Genus ANCYLOXYPHA, Feld. 155. ANCYLOXYPHA MACKENII (Trim.). 3. Pamphila? mackenii, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1868, p. 95, pi. vi. fig. 8. 3 2 • Ancyloxypha mackenii, Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 331. n. 357 (1889). Three males from Christmas Pass (16th to 23rd February), and a male and a female from the Mineni Valley (6th and 8th March). 156. ANCYLOXYPHA PHILANDER (Hopff.). 3. Pamphila philander, Hopff. "Monatsb. Akad. Wissensch. Berl. 1855, p. 643 " ; and Peters' Feise n. Mossamb., Ins. p. 416, t. xxvii. figs. 1, 2 (1862). 3 2 • Ancyloxypha philander, Trim. S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 333. n. 358 (1889). Five specimens: 2 males and 2 females from the Mineni Valley (6th and 7th March) and a female from the Vunduzi Fiver (5th April). All have the lowest spot of the discal series of the fore wing on |