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Show 112 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [JAN. 1 4, 19. PYRAMEIS CARDUI. Papilio cardui, Linnaeus, Faun. Suec. p. 276 (1761). 3 , Chilindi (8 miles S. of Karonga), W . coast of Lake Nyasa, March 1st, 1895. " Painted Lady " (R. ft). 20. HYPANARTIA SCHCENEIA. Eurema schceneia, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1879, p. 329. 3, Nyankowa Mt., 6500 ft. alt., April 9th, 1895. " Scarlet Admiral" (R. ft). The colouriug of Hypanartia must be very fugitive; for specimens never come to hand with scarlet bands. As I have already suggested, this will probably prove to be a seasonal form of H. hippomenes. 21. PSEUDARGYNNIS HEGEMONE. Argynnis hegemone, Godart. Enc. Meth. ix. p. 258 (1819). Jaera duodccimpunctata, Snellen, Tijd. voor Ent. 2nd ser. part 7, pi. i. figs. 1, 2 (1872). o*, Kondowi, Lower Nyika, W . of Lake Nyasa, April 5th; 2 , Kondowi, 4110 feet alt., April 11th, 1895. " Silver-tipped Fritillary. ? full of bright green eggs " (R. ft). Nyasa-land appears to be the headquarters of this rare butterfly, which for many years was unrepresented in the Museum collection ; it never comes in numbers, but collections from Nyasa usually contain one or, rarely, two examples, and, as a rule, of the male sex. 22. HAMANUMIDA DJEDALUS. PapiUo dcedalus, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 482 (1775). 3, Lower Nyika, W . of Lake Nyasa, Feb. 2nd, 1895. " Dark grey and white Fritillary " (R. ft). 23. NEPTIS AGATHA. Papilio agatha, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. cccxxvii. A, B (1782). o", Henga, W . of Lake Nyasa, Jan. 30th; $, Cheni-Cheni Mt., 5700 feet alt., Nyika, April 17th, 1895. " White Admiral. $ full of bright green ova " (R. ft). 24. NEPTIS INCONGRUA, sp. n. (Plate VI. fig. 2.) 2 . Upper surface dark olivaceous brown, the fringes black at the extremities of the veins, white between them : primaries with a minute subcostal white point near the end of the cell, two (elongated) immediately beyond the cell, and a fourth below the latter in the lower radial interspace; seven white spots in three groups crossing the disc much as in A. marpessa-three subapical (the first small), two on the median interspaces, and two, separated by the submedian vein, near external angle : secondaries crossed beyond the middle by a tolerably regular white belt, separated by |