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Show 1900.] INSECTS A N D ARACHNIDS F R O M SOMALILAND. 13 prevalent in that region. So far as the evidence of Mr. Peel's collection goes, the reverse is the case. Another remarkable fact in the distribution of these parallel forms is that while //. klugii is extremely rare in India, the corresponding variety of H. misippus 2 occurs there not infrequentlyl. It is also worthy of note that the white-winged West-African form, Limnas ahippus Cram., is accompanied by the ordinary, aud not the white-winged, form of H. misippus § • The dates and localities of the present examples are as follows:- Hargaisa, April 25-28, 1895, 6 rS, 1 2 (ordinary type); Arigu-meret, Farfanyer District, June 20, 1897, in thick bush, 2 J, 1 ? (var. alcippoides Butl.) ; Bally Maroli, Haud District (North Central Somaliland), June 25, 1897, in open plain, 14 S', Eyk, Haud District, July 2, 1897, 3 d1 • One other male was taken iu Central or East Somaliland between June 5 and October 29, 1897, the exact locality being uncertain. HAMANUMIDA DJEDALUS Fabr. One male, Hargaisa, April 25-28, 1895. The underside is of the " dry-season" form, though not extreme. IrzCMTSTNm. POLYOMMATUS BiETICUS Linn. Two specimens, both males. On the thickly wooded banks of a dry river-bed, Haud, Odewein, June 21 & 23, 1897. PLEBEIUS TROCHILUS Freyer. Two females. Gerato Pass, Goolis Bange (North-west Somaliland), June 9, 1897. AZANUS JESOUS Guer. Five males. Of these, four were captured on the dry sandy plateau of Edegan in the Haud District (North Central Somaliland), July 9, 1897 ; the remaining one was taken at Joh in the Haweea Country (East Central Somaliland), Sept. 20, 1897. AZANUS THEBANA Stdgr. Lyccena macalenga, Trim. S.-Afr. Butterfl. vol. ii. p. 74 (1887). Three specimens : 1 g, 2 $ . One pair from Odewein, Haud, June 21-23, 1897, dry river-bed with thickly wooded banks; the other female from the sandy plateau of Edegan, in the same district, July 9, 1897. LYCENESTHES PRINCEPS Butl. Two females apparently belonging to this form, though somewhat smaller than the type, which came from Abyssinia. Edegan, Haud District, July 9, 1897. 1 See Swinhoe, Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. xxv. pp. 340, 311. For a summary of the facts at present known with regard to the distribution of tho forms in question, see Poulton, 'Nature' July 6, 1899, p. 223. |