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Show 1900.] INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS FROM SOMALILAND. 11 are generally obsolete on the upper surface; they are, however, conspicuous in one of the two dorippus. Most of the male klugii show a slight powdering of white scales in the neighbourhood of tbe submedian scent-patch. In describing the collections made fifteen years ago in Somaliland by Col. Yerbury and Messrs. Thrupp, Lort Phillips, and James (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 756), Dr. Butler remarked of L. klugii : " This is clearly the prevalent Limnas in Somaliland ; L. chrysippus and L. alcippus having, apparently, entirely disappeared, and L. dorippus being scarce." The fact that the only specimens of L. chrysippus obtained by Mr. Peel in his two distinct visits to Somaliland were of tbe klugii and dorippus varieties, confirms the above conclusion. It is also worthy of note that tbe collection made by Capt. Swayne in the Harar Highlands (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, p. 821) contained L. klugii, but no specimens of L. chrysippus, L. alcippoides, or L. dorippus. ACR^IN^:. ACR.EA NEOBULE Doubl. Four specimens : 2 <J, 2 § . Caught at Gonsali (West Somaliland), June 24, 1895. ACRCEA DOUBLEDAYI Guer. 1 $ . Gonsali, June 24, 1895. ACRCEA SERENA Fabr. 3 5 . Gonsali, June 24, 1895. In one of these specimens the subapical oblique, dark bar on the fore wing is well marked, in the other two it is almost or altogether absent. One of the latter has the inner portion of the hind-marginal dark border of the fore wing almost obsolete, except near the apex. ACR^IA MIRABILIS Butl. (Plate I. fig. 4.) Acrcea mirabilis, Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1885, p. 760, pi. xlvii. fig. 1. Seven specimens : apparently 5 <$, 2 $ . The British Museum possesses five specimens of this interesting Acrcea, including the tvpes. The present specimens differ from those in the National Collection (one of which retains a violet bloom) in the following particulars :-(1) The upper surface is generally of a warmer chestnut tinge. (2) The paler marks beneath, including the sub-apical patch of the fore wings, are rich yellow-ochre, instead of being nearly white as in the British Museum examples. In one of the latter, a female, the subapical patch on the upper surface also is creamy white. (3) In the present specimens there is a definite yellow band immediately external to the darker median band of the hind wing beneath. This is not the case in the British Museum examples, where the drab submarginal area gradually pales inwards towards the darker median band. In the $ type |
