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Show 1896.] FROM ARABIA AND SOMALILAND. 249 quash the suggestion of generic separation at once, even not been shown that the same species, when taken in widely distant countries, differs so completely in larval colouring as to be unrecognizable in this stage of its existence. For example, larva? of Agrotis c-nigrum in Ceylon are altogether dissimilar from European larvae of the same species ; the moths, however, are absolutely indistinguishable. List of the Species of Rhopalocera. 1. LlMNAS CHRYSIPPUS. $ . Var. dorippus, Klug, Svmb. Phys. pi. 48. figs. 1-4 (1832). J. Var. hlugii, Butler, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 758. $, Lahej, 28th March, 1895; tf, Aden, 6th February, 1895 (Col. Yerbury). 2. TPTHIMA ASTEROPE. Hipparchia asterope, Klug, Symb. Phys. pi. 29. figs. 11-14 (1832). Shaik Othman, 10th February, and Lahej, 5th to 10th March, 1895 (Col. Terbury); 14th February, 8th and 24th May, 1894 ; Zaila, Somaliland, 28th May and 4th June, 1895 (Capt. Nurse). 3. JUNONIA HERE. Junonia here, Lang, Entomologist, p. 206 (1884). 3 , Lahej, 26th May, 1894 (Capt. Nurse) ; $ , 14th March, (Col. Yerbury). 4. HYPOLIMNAS MISIPPUS. Papilio misippus, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 264 (1764). Typical female (resembling Limnas chrysippus). Aden, 12th October (Capt. Nurse). Var. alcippoides (resembling L. alcippoides). Aden, 27th February, 1895 (Col. Yerbury and Capt. Nurse). Var. with white on secondaries (resembling L. dorippus). Aden, 23th February (Col. Yerbury). Var. between typical H. misippus, $? > and var. inaria. Shaik Othman, 7th April; Zaila, Somaliland, 23rd May, 1895 (Capt. Nurse). Var. inaria (resembling L. hlugii). Aden, 24th September, 1894 (Capt. Nurse). The whole of the known variations of the female of this species are therefore represented in these two small collections, all the forms having been taken either at or near to Aden. 5. BYBLIA ACHELOIA, var. CASTANEA. Hypanis castanea, Butler, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 759. Somaliland (Capt. Nurse). |
