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Show 422 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON BUTTERFLIES [Mar. 21, 22. CASTALIUS HINTZA Trimen. 2 , Machako's, 2nd July, 1898. 23. LYCENESTHES LIODES Hewits. d, Kikuyu, 19th July, 1898. 24. LYOJENESTHES AMAEAH Lefebvre. tS 6, Machako's, 28th May, 1898. " Taken on bush." (R. C.) 25. SCOLITANTIDES STELLATA Trimen. 6 6, 2 , Ngongo, 6450 feet, Masailand, 3rd and 8th August, 1889. " Here, at Ngongo, there is a tiny speckled grey ' blue,' coloured and marked very like the ' Grizzled Skipper,' which I have never seen before, and which is very common." (R. C.) On the labels Mr. Crawshay notes two as having been taken from the same blue flowers with a single swoop of the net. It is evident that he has forgotten having captured two examples of the same species in Nyasaland; but, considering the extent and variety of his collections, this is by no means surprising. 26. SCOLITANTIDES CRAWSHAYI, sp.n. (Plate XXV. figs. 2, 2 a.) cS . Allied to S. methymna, but smaller, the basal area sprinkled with silvery grey-blue scales ; primaries below with the white-edged macular bands narrower, composed of rather small confluent spots scarcely darker than the ground-colour ; secondaries blackish at base, followed by two subparallel series of dark brown white-edged spots, the outer series united, by a conical spot filling the base of the second median interspace, to a broad internally serrated brown patch which tapers to costa near apex ; a well-defined V-shaped white stripe partly bounding internally an uneven sub-marginal series of more or less A-shaped dark brown markings ; the usual black spot enclosing a metallic silver-blue crescent on the first median interspace : head below white, terminal joint of palpi and distal fringe black ; pectus and front legs whitish, tarsi greyish ; remaining legs blackish above, whitish below ; venter mostly dark grey, whitish in the centre at base. Expanse of wings 30 milHm. Machako's, 3rd July, 1898. About the size of S. battus, but much nearer to S. methymna. 27. EVERES KEDONGA. (Plate XXV. figs. 3, 3 a.) cS. Everes Icedonga, Grose-Smith, Novit. Zool. v. p. 357 (1898). 2 . Black-brown above with purplish and bronze reflections; the basal area of the primaries sprinkled with ashy scales; a sub-marginal snow-white dash at external angle continuous with an ill-defined submarginal ashy line ; secondaries with the interno- |