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Show 1896.] FROM NYASA-LAND. 825 29. PROTOGONIOMORPHA ANACARDII. Papilio anacardii, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 236 (1764). Namitembo, Zomba Mountain, March 25th ; Chiradzulu, Shiri Highlands, March 30th, 1896. 30. HYPANARTIA HIPPOMENE. Hypanartia hippomene, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. pl. 25. figs. 3, 4 (1806). 2, Kantorongondo Mountain, Nyika, June 30th, 1895; S o*, 2 , Kasungu Mountain, 7425 feet alt., Nyika, March 3rd, 4th, and 5th, 1896. ^ 2 , "Having an extraordinary quantity of grass-green ova" (R. C). 31. HYPANARTIA SCHCENEIA. Eurema schceneia, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1879, p. 329; South Afr. Butt, i. p. 207, pl. iv. fig. 1 (1887). o* S , Kasungu Mountain, 7200 feet alt., Nyika, March 3rd and 4th, 1896. My supposition (P. Z. S. 1895, p. 727) that this might prove to be the dry-season form of H. hippomene (since confidently asserted to be the fact, byr a practical collector) is now shown to be incorrect, inasmuch as not only were both species caught on the same mountain on two successive days, but at that time of year which might perhaps be called the rainy season, were it not that there appears -to be no really dry season in Nyika. 32. EUPH.EDRA NEOPHRON. Bomaleosoma neophron, Hopffer, Ber. Verh. Ak. Berl. 1855, p. 640 ; Peters' Reise nach Mossamb., Zool. v. p. 386, pl. xxii. figs. 1, 2 (1862). S, Kapora, Songwe plain, in banana-grove, March 6th, 1895 ; 2 2 i Leya, Deep Bay, June 4th ; Lupembi, W . coast of Lake Nyasa, in shady banana-grove. August 19th, 1895 ; <5 , $ , Mpimbi, Upper Shiri River, March 24th and 25th, 1896. 33. EUXANTHE WAKEFIELDI. Godartia wakefieldil, Ward, Ent. Month. Mag. x. p. 152 (1873) Afr. Lep. pl. 6. fig. 3 (1874). Nkata Bay, W . coast of Lake Nyasa, March 14th, 1896. 34. HAMANUMIDA D^EDALUS. Papilio dcedalus, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 482 (1775). 2 , Deep Bay, Feb. 17th, 1896. 35. METACRENIS CRAWSHAYI. Crenls crawshayi, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 654, pl. Ix. fig. 5. 2, Fuleriva forest, Deep Bay, Feb. 28th, 1896. "Full abdomen: one fully-developed ovum, pinkish-coloured" (R. C). |