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Show 132 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [JAN. 14, 101. HALPE NIGERRIMA. Halpe nigerrima, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 672. Kambwiyi, Lower Nyika, Jan. 2nd, 1895. " Dark green Skipper (speckled with white) " (22. ft). 102. HALPE AMADHU. Pamphila amadhu, Mabille, Comptes Rendus Soc. Ent. Beige, p. lxxviii (1891). Kambwiyi, Lower Nyika, Jan. 21st, 1895. " Greenish Skipper " (R. ft). These species of Halpe never seem to come to hand in numbers, one or two examples in a large collection are all that we ever receive. 103. PERICHARES ALBICORNIS, sp. n. (Plate VI. fig. 8.) 3. Primaries sericeous olive-brown, sometimes suffused with purplish, the basi-costal area more or less suffused with cupreous ; interno-basal area clothed with olive-green hairs, fringe whity brown; two yellowish-white superposed spots within the end of the cell, sometimes connate ; a small more or less triangular spot at the base of the second median interspace, a transversely oblong spot below the latter and crossing the first median interspace; two or three small and yellower hyaline spots, separated by the subcostal branches, towards apex, and an opaque bright yellow oblong or oval spot just above the middle of the submedian vein: secondaries deep sericeous ohve-brown, central area occupied by a slightly paler patch having a somewhat reddish tinge ; base clothed with green hairs, abdominal area with greenish and bronze hairs ; fringe whity brown : upper surface and front of palpi, head above, and patagia chocolate-brown; antenna? pure white, emitted from a whitish tuft on the vertex of the head. Primaries below with the costal border and a subapical patch golden copper-brown, the central area greyish black, the internal area paler with a large central diffused whitish spot; hyaline spots necessarily as above ; external border from apex to first median branch rosy greyish brown: secondaries golden copper-brown, slightly darker on the costa and in a small subapical patch bounded by two black dots ; three ill-defined brown spots in a triangular position across the basal area, a black dot on the upper discocellular and a small black spot beyond; a dust-grey interno-median stripe commencing in a point at base and gradually expanding to outer margin; an irregular purplish-grey streak edged with blackish crossing the disc from the interno-median streak and tapering to apex ; outer border paler than the remainder of the wing, bounded internally by an ill-defined brownish line and enclosing two or three triangular grey marginal dots: palpi below dull straw-yellow; antennae white, with a grey patch on the club; neck and edges of eyes white; pectus densely covered with dull tawny hair, venter rufous brown. Expanse of wings 40 niillim. |