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Show 1895.] PROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 725 12. YPTHIMA ALBIDA. Ypthima albida, Butler, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 59. Kazamaza's, 5300 feet, 13th to 23rd April; Kivata, Euwenzori, 6000-8000 feet; Uganda. 13. CHARAXES CANDIOPE. Nymphalis candiope, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 352 (1823). d, Salt Lake to Wawamba country. 14. HYPOLIMNAS MISIPPUS. Papilio misippus, Linnaeus, Mus. Lud. Ulr. p. 264 (1764). d , Salt Lake to Wawamba country. A single, much shattered example. 15. EURALIA ANTHEDON. Diadema anthedon, Doubleday, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xvi. p. 181 (1845) ; Gen. Diurn. Lep. pi. 37. fig. 2 (1854). d, Salt Lake to Wawamba country. 16. EURALIA DUBIUS. Papilio dubius, Beauv. Ins. Afr. Am. p. 238, pi. 6. figs. 2 a, b (1805). o*, Salt Lake to Wawamba country. A much rubbed example. 17. JUNONIA CALESCENS. Junonia calescens, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 652. Precis octavia, Staudinger, Exot. Schmett. pi. 38. fig. 4 ; P. octavia, var. natalensis (not Precis natalica, Feld.), I. c. p. 101. Salt Lake to Wawamba country, also one much shattered example from Euwenzori. To avoid the confusion likely to arise from the adoption of Staudinger's varietal name, I have retained that applied to this species bv myself. 18. JUNONIA GALAMI. Vanessa galami, Boisduval, Faune Ent. Madag. p. 46 (1833). Salt Lake to Wawamba country. 19. JUNONIA KOWARA. Junonia kowara, Ward, Ent. Month. Mag. viii. p. 82 (1871); Afr. Lep. p. 6, pi. 5. figs. 5, 6, (1873). 2 . Euwenzori, 6000-8000 feet. One, unfortunately somewhat broken, example ; the female is paler than the male; indeed, in the colouring of the discal belt it nearly resembles the male of the allied J. aurorina, only there is no lilacine suffusion on this belt, which is also broader and less angulated internally on the primaries ; as in the male, it has no red markings across the discoidal cell. |