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Show 1896.] FROM NYASA-LAND. 823 to take : it flies high and fast, and thus is the only specimen have ever had a chance of taking." I now have no doubt that one of the males recorded in my paper in the - Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' 1896, xviii. p. 68, as " C. ethallon (Eastern type)," and taken on the Upper Leya, on the same day as the male above noted, belongs to this species; but when identifying it I had no female for comparison. 14. CHARAXES LEONINUS. Charaxes leoninus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 253, pl. xv. fig. 2. o*, Lower Nyika, June 14th, 1895. 15. CHARAXES ZOOLINA. Nymphalis zoolina, Westwood & Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. pl. liii. fig. 1 (1850). 6, Mpimbi, Upper Shiri River, March 24th, 1896. A much-shattered example, but the first we have received from Nyasa-land. 16. PANOPEA HELIOGENES. (Plate XLI. fig. 2.) Panopea heliogenes, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xviii. p. 69 (1896). 2, Mitanji, W . of Deep Bay, May 19th, 1895. 17. HYPOLIMNAS MISIPPUS. Papilio misippus, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 264 (1764). o* cJ, $, Deep Bay, Feb. 5th, 6th, 8th, 11th, 27th, aud 29th, 1896. 18. JUNONIA PELASGIS. Vanessapelasgis, Godart, Enc. Metb. ix., Suppl. p. 820 (1823). 2 , Kasungu Mountain, 7425 feet alt., Nyika, March 2nd, 1896. " Emerald-green ova " (B. C). 19. JUNONIA ABCHESIA. Papilio archesia, Cramer, Bap. Exot. iii. pl. ccxix. figs. D, (1782). Henga, W . of Lake Nyasa, June 26th, 1895. 20. JUNONIA CALESCENS. Junonia calescens, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 652. Mtambwi Hill, January 6th ; Deep Bay, Feb. 5th, 6th, 11th, 15th, and 21st, 1896. 21. JUNONIA CUAMA. Junonia cuama, Hewitson, Exot. Butt, iii., Jun. pl. 1. figs. 2, 3 (1864). Mtambwi Hill, July 1st, 1895. Said to be the extreme dry-season form of /. simia, but we have it from Zomba taken in the wet season. |