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Show 564 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [June 19, large on the secondaries, exhibiting the first step in the directi of J. boopis: it varies from cobalt to lilac in tint. 31. JUNONIA CEBRENE. Junonia cebrene, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1870, p. 353. Kinani; platform on Kikuyu escarpment, Kedong, Naiva; shores of Lake Baringo; Njempo ; Guaso Narok; Guaso Laschau; steppes N.W. of Longari; Thagana; steppes of Thika-Shika; steppes between Athi and Thika ; Athi plains, Chjanjavi; Maka; Ndoli; Sabaki Valley at Tanganyika and near Makongeni. As regards the form of the tawny patches and the size, shape, and colouring of the blue or violet spot on the secondaries the specimens vary not a little ; it therefore seems doubtful whether the Malagasy form, J. paris, will prove to be specifically distinct. 32. PYRAMEIS ABYSSINICA. Pyrameis abyssinica, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iii. p. 397. n. 589 (1867). ' No exact locality on the specimen ; probably Sabaki Valley. This interesting little species is quite intermediate between P. atcdanta and P. dejeanii; but, as Felder says, belongs to the P. atalanta-grou]). In colouring it more nearly resembles Eurema schceneia, Trimen, but has a short ochreous bar beyond the cell of the primaries representing the white bar in P. atalanta. Trimen observes that I evidently included E. schceneia under my Hypanartia commixta (in which he is quite correct); but whether the date printed with Oberthiir's paper was that of its actual publication is, I think, open to question. 33. PYRAMEIS CARDUI. Papilio cardui, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 276. n. 1054 (1761). Guaso Laschau ; Thagana; Kenya, camp below the old ice-fall; steppes between Athi and Thika; Ndangi River. 34. PROTOGONIOMORPHA AGLATONICE. Vanessa aglatonice, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 299. n. 8 (1819) ; o*, Lucas, Lep. Exot. pi. 57. rig. 2 (1835). Var. <S . Salamis clefinita, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. vol. iv. p. 230 (1879). § . Protogoniomorpha clefinita, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 653. cS 2 • Salamis nebulosa, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1881, p. 441; South Afr. Butt. i. p. 246. n. 79 (1887). 2 2 • Sabaki Valley. Three examples exactly corresponding with typical females of the three supposed species; thus distinctly proving that they are mere sports of one variable form, as I previously suggested. 35. PROTOGONIOMORPHA ANACARDII. Papilio anacardii, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 236 (1764). Lanjoro, south of Guaso Thegu. |
