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Show 10 MR. C. V. A. PEEL AND OTHERS ON [Jan. 23, Fam. M U S C I D *. GLOSSINA Wied. GLOSSINA LONGIPENNIS Corti. Glossina longipennis, Corti, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xxxv. (1895) p. 138. A single $ , West Somaliland, June 23-25,1895. Mr. Peel's note on this specimen says : - " Fly-belt sharply defined from Biermuddo to Boholo Deno." This species, which is the Somaliland Tsetse-fly, was described from a male specimen obtained by Capt. Vittorio Bottego in June, 1893, on the Uelinal Biver, in the Boran Galla country. The British Museum possesses four examples from Somaliland (the exact locality not being known), collected and presented by Mr. Th. Greenfield. Corti states (loc. cit. p. 139) that G. longipennis is " related to G. tachinoid.es, Westw., but differs in having the antennae yellowish and not brown." It is, however, much more closely allied to G. tabaniformis, Westw., in which the length and size of the wings are even greater. 3. LEPIDOPTEBA BHOPALOCEBA. By F. A. DIXEY, M.A., M.D., Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. DANAIN^E. LIMN AS CHEYSIPPUS Linn. Twrenty-two specimens : 16 <$ , 6 $ . It is remarkable that not one of these is of the type form, 14 c? and 6 $ beiug var. klugii, in which the black and white of the apical portion of the fore wing are wanting; while the remaining 2 $ are var. dorippus, which resembles var. klugii in every respect except that both surfaces of the hind wing are more or less suffused with white as in the cdcippoides form of the type. The dates and places of capture were as follows: Hargaisa (North-west Somaliland), April 25-28, 1895, klugii, 4 <S, 1 §, dorippus, 1 <$; Arigumeret, Farfanyer District (Central Somaliland), June 20, 1897, in thick bush, klugii, 4 J, dorippus, 1 S; Haud, Odewein (North Central Somaliland), June 23, 1897, in dry river-bed with thickly wooded banks, klugii, 1 S, 1 2 ! 1'aud District, Eyk (North Central Somaliland), July 2, 1897, klugii, 1 tf, 1 $; Habr Heshi, Marehan Country (East Central Somaliland), Aug. 26, 1897, in thick bush, klugii, 4 (J, 3 ?. The ground-colour of the present specimens varies, the majority being of the usual light reddish amber seen in Oriental specimens of the type. Two or three of the klugii are of a pale dull fawn, and one or two approach the duller and darker ground-tint of the African chrysippus. These differences are not sexual, and there are transitional forms. The marginal white spots of the hind wing |