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Show 244 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Feb. 18, , " ACRuEA SEIS. Given me by Lieut. Sparrow, 7th Dragoon Guards. Obtained when on a shooting expedition. " CATOCHRYSOPS CONTRACTA. The males do not appear to differ from specimens of the same sex which I have from Kutch, India; but the females from Kutch are much darker and have not nearly so much blue on the wings. Mr. De Niceville in his remarks on the genus Catochrysops, in the ' Butterflies of India,' says he is unable to recognize more than three distinct species. C. contracta, of course, may be a local race C. cnejus,but the following notes may be of interest in this respect :- At Shaik Othman, near Aden, C. contracta is very numerous, but I never saw a 0. cnejus there. At Lahej, 15 miles away, C. cnejus swarms, but I never saw C. contracta there. The vegetation at Shaik Othman is very scanty, while there is plenty of rank vegetation round Lahej. In Kutch I never found typical C. cnejus, but C. contracta swarms. " CATOCHRYSOPS ASOPUS. Common at Lahej. " POLYOMMATUS B^ETICUS. Common at Zaila and Aden. " AZANUS SIG1LLATUS ( = GAMRA?). Not very common at Aden, and not seen on the Somali coast. " AZANUS ZEN A. Common at and near Aden. " LYC^ENESTHES AMARAH. Common at and near Aden. " TARUCUS PULCHER sive PLINIUS. Common at Aden and Lahej. " TARUCUS THEOPHRASTUS. Common. " CHILADES TROCHILUS. Not very common. " ZlZERA KNYSNA and Z. GAIKA. See Col. Terbury's remarks in Bomb. Nat. Hist. Society's Journal, 1892. " ZESIUS LIVIA. Fairly common. I bred this species from seed-pods of Acacia |