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Show 1896.] FROM NYASA-LAND. 839 extreme dry-season types seem to occur : the pattern of T. represents the latter, but the rosy colouring on the under surface, characteristic of Southern, Eastern, and Northern types, is wanting. 101. TERACOLUS INCRETUS. 2 . Teracolus Incretus, Butler, Ent. Month. Mag. xviii. p. 146 (1881). cf. Callosune vulnerata, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. pl. 23. 2, Kawembi, N.W. coast of Lake Nyasa, Sept. 23rd, 1895. 102. BELENOIS THYSA, var. SABRATA. o*. Belenois sabrata, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1870, p. 526. 0*, Mtambwi Hill, west of Lake Nyasa, Feb. 20th ; 2 > Mpimbi Plain, Upper Shiri River, March 25th, 1896. " Oblong yellow ova " (B. ft). The largest specimens of the species which I have seen, and, apparently, the only form taken in Nyasa-land. It differs from typical B. thysa in the narrower black border at apex of primaries and the more dentate-sinuate (rather than zigzag) character of the inner edge of the outer border; the subapical spots well separated from the border, though touching the black veins in the female. The type of B. sabrata was an unusually small example. A very curious female of B. thgsa, with glaucous greyish apex of primaries and ground-colour to secondaries below, was obtained on the Chuona River (Mwewe's), Unyika, August 26th, 1895. 103. ERONIA LEDA. Bryas leda, Boisduval, Voy. de Deleg., App. p. 588 (1847). 6, Mpimbi, Upper Shiri Biver, March 24th, 1896. 104. PAPILIO PSEUDONIREUS. Papilio pseudonireus, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. i. p. 94 (1865). Kasungu Mountain, 7425 feet alt., Nyika, March 1st to 4th, 189b. 105. PAPILIO PHORCAS. 6. Papilio phorcas, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pl. ii. B, C (1775). 6 <$, 2 ? Kasungu Mountain, 7425 feet alt., Nyika, March 1st, 1896. "Fairly plentiful, but very difficult to take, as it flies high, skimming the trees, and rarely comes down within reach." The female contained " large spherical boiled-sago-coloured ova" (R. ft). All the specimens were more or less shattered, the female with the same green bands and spots as the male; all the specimens with the subapical patch on the primaries rather smaller than in Western examples. |