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Show 1893.] BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 645 dlcippoides was in the Zomba series, it is only reasonable to suppose that L. alcippus also occurs there. 5. MELANITIS SOLANDRA. Papilio solandra, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 500, n. 244 (1775). Zomba, December 1892 and January 1893. This is one of the forms of M. leda which is not found in India. As already stated, I think the Indian type is, to all intents and purposes, a species distinct from the rufescent form named by Linnaeus: when two variable and allied species exhibit similarity without identity in one of their many sports, they must still be considered distinct. 6. MELANITIS LIBYA. Melanitis libya, Distant, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. x. p. 405 (1882). 2 , Zomba, January 1893. The colouring of the under surface evidently differs from that of the type; but, in a genus in which both the colouring and pattern of that surface vary indefinitely, this is unimportant. 7. GNOPHODES DIVERSA. Gnophodes diversa, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. p. 333 (1880). Zomba, July 1892. 8. MYCALESIS (MONOTRICHTIS) RHACOTIS. Mycalesis rhacotis, Hewitson, Ex. Butt, iii., Myc. pi. 8. fig. 50 (1866). Lake Mweru ; Zomba, July 1892, January 1893. 9. MYCALESIS (MONOTRICHTIS) EUSIRUS. Mycalesis eusirus, Hopffer, Ber. Verh. Ak. Berl. 1855, p. 64l, n. 13. Lake Mweru; Zomba, July 1892, January 1893. I think it doubtful whether this is more than a form of the preceding species, which, however, it wTould of course supersede if not distinct. 10. MYCALESIS (MONOTRICHTIS) MIRIAM. Papilio miriam, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 242, n. 754 (1793). Zomba, July and December 1892. This species varies considerably in size and the greater or less regularity of the outer line of the central belt; examples from the West Coast of Africa in the Museum Collection show a more dentate-sinuate character in this line, especially on the primaries, than those in the present series; but in all other details they correspond. |
