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Show 1899.] FROM BBITISH EAST AFRICA. 425 44. BELENOIS MESENTINA Cramer. <3, Machako's, 10th July, 1898. 45. BELENOIS WESTWOODI Wallengr. 2 , Machako's to Naugia, 4800 feet, 18th September, 1898. " Dirty-white spike-shaped ova." (R. C.) The single female obtained is of the dry-season phase; on the upper surface it is far less marked than usual. 46. SYNCHLOE GLAUCONOME Klug. <J , Machako's, 28th May, 1898. This is the first African example of the species that I have seen ; it is slightly less heavily spotted than Arabian specimens, but is otherwise identical. 47. PHRISSURA NYASANA Butler. (Plate XXV. fig. 4.) 2 , Machako's, 3rd July, 1898. " Dirty-white ova." (R. C.) There can, I think, be no doubt that this is the female of the Nyasa species ; it is rather smaller than the male and has the usual broad costal border and dentate-sinuate outer border to the primaries ; the cell of these wings is almost wholly orange as in the male; below, the chief difference consists in the much whiter secondaries with the marginal spots reduced to black dots. 48. HERPVENIA MELANARGE, var. ITERATA, Butler. S, Machako's, 28th May, 1898. 49. ERONIA DILATATA Butler. S , Machako's, 20th June, 1898. " Occasionally met with on these open plains, but evidently more at home and more plentiful in the bush country." (R. G.) This is the driest phase of the species that I have seen. PAPILIONIN^E. 50. PAPILIO DEMOLEUS Linn. Kikuyu, 6400 feet, 17th July, 1898. HESPEEIIDI, 51. SARANGESA PERTUSA Mabille. Machako's, 22nd and 24th June, 7th July, 1898. " Frequents dry ravines and spots of bare sheltered ground." (R. G.) 52. SARANGESA ELIMINATA Holland. Machako's, 21st and 22nd June, 1st July, 1898. |