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Show 12 MR. C. V. A. PEEL AND OTHERS ON [Jan. 23, this submarginal pale area is somewhat more distinct than in the other British Museum specimens, but it does not reach the condition seen in Mr. Peel's examples. The dated specimens in the National Collection were taken at Bundu Maria, Somaliland, in April. Mr. Peel's were all captured at Aoho, near Hodayu, Ogaden Country, Central Somaliland, on Aug. 20, 1897. The country consisted of stony hills, with thick bush. From the dates it seems probable that the present specimens belong to the wet-season, and the British Museum specimens to the dry-season form of the species. NYMPIIALINJE. JUNONIA CEBRENE Trim. Six specimens, all males. Three were captured at Hargaisa, April 25-28, 1895 ; the other three in the summer of 1897, two bearing the dat^ June 20, and the locality Arigumeret, Farfanyer District. These latter have the underside generally darker and more speckled than the spring examples; this is less apparent in the third specimen, from Central or East Somaliland, June 5-Oct. 29, 1897. JUNONIA CLELIA Cram. Six specimens : 3 ^ , 3 $ . Hargaisa, April 25-28,1895. The undersides of these specimens vary, but in all the ocelli are more distinct and the general tint is less uniform than in the ordinary " dry-season " form of the species. JUNONIA TAVETA Bogenh. One male. Hargaisa, April 25-28, 1895. BYBLIA ILITHYIA Drury. Four specimens : 3 J,l $. These are of the " intermediate " seasonal form, the female verging towards "wet"1. All are dated Hargaisa, April 25-28, 1895. HYPOLIMNAS MISIPPUS Linn. Twenty-eight specimens: 26 o*, 2 $. It is very remarkable that of the only two female specimens obtained by Mr. Peel, one should be of the ordinary form, resembling the type of L. chrysippus, and the oilier of the var. alcippoides, differing from the former only in the whitish suffusion on both surfaces of the hind wing. From the fact s given above (see under L. chrysippus, p. 10), it •would appear that the form klugii of I. chrysippus occurs in Somaliland to the exclusion of the type, and it might have been expected that the form of H. misippus § which so closely resembles klugii, viz. //. inaria Cram., would have been the form similarly 1 For a discussion of geographical and seasonal forms in the genus Byblia. Hiibn., with especial reference to the relations between the forms occurring in Somaliland and Socotra, see Dixey, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1898, pp. 370-379. |