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Show 1896.] °N LEPIDOPTERA F R O M SOMALI-LAND. 523 third segment, and expanded into a spot in the middle of the eighth; there is also an indistinct brown stripe on each side of the abdomen. Legs testaceous, with blackish spines, and the tibiae shading into dark brown towards the extremity. Wings hyaline, with brown nervures, the cross-nervures towards the costa, and the costal and subcostal nervures between the nodus and the pterostigma, yellow. Base strongly tinged with yellow on the hind wings, but only slightly so on the fore wings. Pterostigma very long, yellow, between slender black nervures. Fore wings with 11 antenodal cross-nervures, the last not continuous, and 9-10 postnodal cross-nervures, the first two not continuous ; the nodal sector very slightly waved, and the row of cells below only doubled for the last 2 or 3 before the hind margin. Sectors of tbe arculus distinctly stalked; triangle traversed, followed by three rows of cells increasing; three subtriangular cells ; one cross-nervure in the lower basal cell; no supratriangular cells. Hind wings rather broad at base, with the base of the triangle on a level with the arculus. Dobar, Goolis Mountains, Feb. 4, 1895. There seems no reason to regard this insect as the female of either of the foregoing. It differs from typical Orthetrum in the last antenodal cross-nervure being discontinuous. 6. HEMIANAX EPHIPPIGER, Burm. Bichen, Somali-land, Feb. 5, 1895. A common species in the warmer parts of the Old World. 4. List of Lepidoptera collected in Somali-land by Mrs. E. Lort Phillips. By E M I L Y M A R Y S H A R P E. [Eeceived April 21, 1896.] Mrs. E. Lort Phillips accompanied her husband on his recent expedition to the Goolis Mountains in Somali-land, in the spring of 1895, and formed a collection of Butterflies which have furnished an interesting supplement to that made by Dr. Donaldson Smith during his recent travels in Somali-land. For a full account of the country traversed by Mr. Lort Phillips, I must refer my readers to the paper published by the last-named gentleman on the Birds obtained during the expedition (cf. ' Ibis,' 1896, pp. 62-87, pl. ii.). Family D A I A I D A 1. LIMNAS CHRYSIPPUS (L.). a. 6. Gotten, April 6. 6. $ . Dobar, Goolis Mts., Feb. 4. 2. LIMNAS DORIPPUS (Klug). a. $. Dobar, Feb. 4. b. <3 . Dara-as, March 5. 34* |