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Show 1894.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 569 rather narrow and quite regular; only the first of the disco-submarginal series of spots being present, close to apex; white submarginal lunules small and inconspicuous. Below, the primaries are almost the same as in C. calice, but the black spots on the submarginal white band are smaller, the lowest being absent; the white areas generally are also broader : the secondaries below differ from those of C. calice in that the two irregular series of black spots crossing the basal half are confluent, forming black bands, the discal series of spots being only represented by a small subapical dot; the submarginal partly blue-edged black spots smaller and reduced to five in number. Expanse of wings 31 millim. Bondoni and Kapte Plains. Only one example was obtained, but in tolerably good condition. 61. AZANUS OCCIDENTALIS. Azanus occidentalis, Butler, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 571. n. 32. 2 , Gopo lal Mavari; 3 , Thagana, woods beside Ukikuya. 62. PLEBEIUS TROCHILUS. Lyccena trochilus, Freyer, Neuere Beitr. v. pi. 440. fig. 1 (1844). Njempo. 63. PLEBEIUS, sp. ? One much-worn and broken female example of a species which I have been unable to identify. Rangatan, Ndari. 64. TATURA PHILIPPUS. Hesperia philippus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 283. n. 87 (1793). No exact locality recorded. 65. VlRACHOLA ANTA. Lyccena anta, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. i. p. 402 (1862). Sabaki Valley. 66. STUGETA BOWE:ERI. Iolaus bowkeri, Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Austr. p. 225. n. 130, pi. 4. fig. 4 (1866). S.W. corner of Lake Baringo. This is quite distinct from S. marmorea, from the White Nile; that species shows no trace of the conspicuous blue colouring of S. bowkeri. 67. SPINDASIS NYASSA. (Plate XXXVI. fig. 4.) Aphnceus nyassce, Butler, Ent. Mo. Mag. xx. p. 250 (1884), Two females, without exact locality. |