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Show 844 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Nov. 16 five years'priority. Mr. Marshall asks-"Is Azanusmacalenga, Trimen, identical with A. ubaldus, Cram. ? There is a single specimen of the latter in tbe Durban Museum from the Punjab, and I can detect no difference." The chief difference between A. ubaldus and A. zena is that the male of the former has no belt of thickened lilac scales across the upper surface of the primaries : if the females got mixed it would be no easy matter to sort them. 50. TARUCUS PLINIUS, Fabr. Tugela Biver, 30th October and 9th November, 1896. 51. TARUCUS THEOPHRASTUS, Fabr. Tugela Biver, near Weenen, 22nd October, 3rd and 9th November, 1896. T. cybaris cannot be distinguished from this species. 52. ZIZERA KNYSNA, Trimen. Estcourt, 27th September, 3rd and 18th October ; Tugela Biver, 26th October, 6th and 15th November, 1896. The specimens were labelled Z. lyslmon, but that species can be distinguished at a glance by the outer border to the wings of the male occupying the outer fourth of the wing and by the smoky-brown upper surface of the female ; the under surface of the wings is also much browner and with considerably less sharply defined markings. 53. ZIZERA GAIKA, Trimen. Tugela Biver, 31st October, 1st November; Estcourt, 27th and 30th November, 13th December ; Frere, 6th, 8th, and 9th December, 1896. 54. ZIZERA LUCIDA, Trimen. Estcourt, 27th September, 11th, 14th, 15th, and 18th October, 1896; Karkloof, 15th February, 1897. 55. CASTALIUS CALICE, Hopffer. Estcourt, 18th October; Tugela Biver near Weenen, 30th October, 1896. " A scarce species round here. I am strongly inclined to believe the 0. melcena, Trimen, is only the wet-season form of this." 56. LYCAENESTHES LIODES, Hewits. 3, Tugela Biver, 2500 feet, 15th November ; $ , Estcourt, 4000 feet, 13th December, 1896 ; Karkloof, 17th February, 1897. Mr. Marshall notes that Lyccenesthes llvlda (of which there one worn male example from the first three consignments) is " a very rare species, taken flying round a bush on a high kopje." |