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Show 1896.] FROM NYASA-LAND. 119 44. CATOCHRYSOPS HIPPOCRATES. Hesperia hippocrates, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 288 (1793); Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 45. fig. 3 (1800). 3, Lower Nyika, W . of Lake Nyasa, Feb. 2nd, 1895. A rare western form, which I have not previously seen from Central Africa. 45. CATOCHRYSOPS GLAUCA. Lyccena glauca, Trimen, South Afr. Butt. vol. ii. p. 21 (1887). c* o*, Kwereru Hill, Deep Bay, April 22nd, 1895. " Chalk-hill Blue. A frequenter of open forest, very active and restless and difficult to capture " (R. ft). This very beautiful species is quite new to us : in its pale glittering yellow-greenish tint it stands out distinct from all the other species of the ft parsimon group. 46. EVERES JOBATES. Lyccena jobates, Hopffer, Ber. Verh. Ak. Berlin, 1855, p. 642; Peters' Reise n. Mossamb. v. p. 408, pi. 26. figs. 9, 10 (1862). 2 , Upper Leya, six miles N.W. of Deep Bay, March 3rd, 1895. " Orange-lower-wing Blue. Very restless " (R. ft). The finest example I have seen of this somewhat rare species. 47. AZANUS SIGILLATUS. Lampides sir/illata, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xviii. p. 483 (1876). 3 3, Mrali, W . coast of Lake Nvasa, March 2nd, 1895. " Lesser Alexis-like Blue " (R. ft). A rare form of the A. gamra group, originally described from a pair received from Abyssinia; one of the examples obtained by Mr. Crawshay agrees in all respects with A. natalensis, Trimen, which will therefore have to sink as a synonym of my species. 48. TARUCUS PLINIUS. Hesperia plinius, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 284 (1793). Lyccenapulchra, Murray, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loudon, 1874, p. 524, pi. 10. figs. 7, 8. 2 , Foot of Jakwa Mt., Henga-Nkamanga, W . of Lake Nyasa, Jan. 28th; 3, Mrali, W . coast of Lake Nyasa, March 2nd; 3, Nyankowa Mt,, Nyika, April 10th; $, Cheni-Cheni Mt., 4500 feet alt., Nyika, April 18th; 3 $, Lumpi R. valley, Lower Nyika, April 21st, 1895. Mr. Crawshay calls the male " Double peacock-spotted hair-tailed Blue," and the female " Peacock-eyed double-tailed Blue " and " Chequered double peacock-eye Blue." The species is very common and varies a good deal. |