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Show 34 MR. C. V. A. PEEL AND OTHERS ON [Jan. 23, 6. NEUBOPTEBA. By BOBERT MCLACHLAN, F.E.S. &c. PLANIPENNIA. PALPARES PAPILIONOIDES Klug, var. West Somaliland, Sule Biver, M a y 29, 1895. One female. It appears to m e to be safer to regard this single specimen as a variety of P. papilionoides rather thau to describe it as new. Klug's species was from Arabia Felix. When compared with Klug's description and figures, this female is somewhat larger and the dark bands of the anterior wings are more distinctly fenestrated in consequence of the dark colour being restricted to margining of the network. Some examples of P. tristis Hagen, diverge from the tvpe form in the same manner, and I have a female from Somaliland that at first I thought was specifically identical with that from the Sule Biver, but there is a slightly different form of wing, and in papilionoides the abdomen has black longitudinal bands which are wanting in tristis. PALPARES WALKERI McLachlan. Sule Biver, M a y 24, 1895. One female. The male of this species was described by me in the Ent. Monthly Mag. for August 1894 from two examples taken by Mr. J. J. Walker, B.N., F.L.S., at Aden, which are in my collection. Subsequently Col. Yerbury, B.A., F.Z.S., found examples of both sexes at the same place and presented them to the British Museum. Upon comparing the female from Somaliland with those from Aden, I see nothing that can be considered of specific difference. The female has never been described. It is larger (expanse about 130 mm.) and the wings are broader (19 mm.), the isolated black markings on the anterior wings are larger ; on the posterior wings the fascia? are both broader and longer, the second of them extending to the dorsal margin, and very broad and strongly angulate in the middle; the third is also very broad and connected more or less with a series of spots towards the dorsal margin. (In no two specimens do the dark bands and other markings precisely agree nor are they symmetrical on the opposing wings.) MYRMELEON VARIEGATUS Klug. West Somaliland (1895). One male, without indication of further locality. Described originally from Arabia Felix. I have what appears to be exactly the same species from the Sinai Peninsula. Probably widespread. O D O N A T A. CACERGATE LEUCOSTICTA Burm. East Central Somaliland : Haweea Country, Sinnadohga, by a water-tank, Sept. 8, 1897. One female. A widespread African insect. |