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Show 250 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Feb. 18, 6. ACR.EA SEIS. Acrcea seis, Feisthamel, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1850, p. 247. Somaliland (Capt. Nurse). In Mr. Kirby's Catalogue this species was erroneously recorded as a variety of A. mahela; consequently it has since been described by Mr. Grose Smith as A. matuapa, by Messrs. Godman and Salvin as A. calgce, and by Vieillot as A. mhondana; it is distributed over Africa from West to East, and we have one example labelled South; the ground-colour varies from almost wholly tawny (probably rose-red in life) to an insect having the primaries almost entirely smoky brown. A. seis is the African representative of the Asiatic A. violte, which it nearly resembles both in form and pattern. 7. CATOCHRYSOPS CONTRACTA. Lampides contracta, Butler, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 406, pi. xxxix. fig. 3. o* $, Shaik Othman, 3rd March (Col. Yerbury), 21st April, 1895 (Capt. Nurse). These Arabian examples do not differ at all from those obtained at Candahar, Beloochistan, and Karachi. 8. AZANUS GAMRA. Lyccena gamra, Lederer, Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. "Wien, 1855, p. 189, pi. i. fig. 3. cS 2 » Shaik Othman, 24th February, 3rd March ; Aden, 7th and 18th March, 1895 (Col. Yerbury). I think it probable that this may be the species referred to in my former paper on Lepidoptera from Aden as " A. sigillata" the specimens being in Col. Swinhoe's collection : the two species are nearly allied, but A. sigillata is a small (probably dry-season) form of A. natalensis, and shows black spots and no parallel brown bars on the under surface of the disc of secondaries; whereas in A. gamra the brown bars replace the extra black spots. 9. LYC^ENESTHES AMARAH. Polgommatus amarah, Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss, vi. p. 384, pi. ii. figs. 5, 6 (1847). cS, Shaik Othman, 24th February, 1895 (Col. Yerbury). The stronger form of wing and the two pencils of elongated scales from the fringe of secondaries show this to be a Lycaenesthes and not an Azanus ; the pattern of the under surface is deceptively similar in the two genera. 10. ZlZERA GAIKA. Lyccena gaiha, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. i. p. 403 (1862). cS, Aden, 19th February, 1895 (Col. Yerbury). |