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Show 914 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON RUTTERFLIES [Dec. 4, no less than eleven of this species, in company with some two or three Charaxes, feeding voraciously on the excreta of a Leopard." Of the remaining males, which arrived in the later consignment, Mr. Crawshay says :-" Apparently the first appearance of this species since my arrival here in February : each example of the few seen has newly emerged." The Eastern specimens of this species frequently have the white spots on the primaries reduced in size. 2. LIMNAS CHRYSIPPUS, var. KLUGII. Limnas klugii, Butler, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 758. 2, Nairobi plains, 5400 feet, April 25, 1900. " Commonly distributed all over the country; never, however, anywhere in great numbers, but here one and there one. No butterfly is easier to take, as its flight is heavy, weak, and of but short duration. Oblong pale yellow ova." 3. GNOPHODES DIYERSA. Gnophodes diversa, Butler, Ann. N. H. (5) v. p. 333 (1880). o*, Nairobi forest, 5460 feet, April 14 ; $ , March 25, 1900. " A n insect of owlish haunts and habits, frequenting dark forests and apparently never emerging into the sunlight. It is new to me and the only one of its kind I have seen, though I have taken an insect of similar form, haunts, aud habits in the Nyasa forests. Grass-green ova partially developed." 4. MELANITIS LEDA. Papilio leda, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. ed. 10, i. p. 474 (1788). Nairobi plains, 5400 feet, Kikuyu, April 22, 1900 ; Buarka P., 5500 feet, April 27, 1900. Bespecting the first specimen Mr. Crawshay observes:- " Somewhat to my astonishment, I took this insect-usually an inhabitant of dark forest-out in the open, in a small patch of scrub, in broad noonday." Of the other he says:-"As I have previously remarked, this butterfly frequents tbe depths of the forest, or thickets, where daylight scarcely penetrates to any great extent. Unless disturbed it appears never to take wing in the daytime ; and if disturbed, flops dow7n again into the depths of the undergrow'th a few yards away. Its habits are, I should think, strictly crepuscular, if not nocturnal." 5. MONOTRICHTIS SAFITZA. Mycalesis safitza, Hewitson, Gen. Diurn. Lep. ii. p. 294 note, pi. lxvi. fig. 3 (1851). 8, Nairobi forest, March 20, 1900. " This Ringlet is common in the depths of the forest, where it is to be seen hopping about or settling on the barer places, one here and one there." (R. C.) |
