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Show 1899.] BUTTERFLIES FROM MUSCAT. 811 from examples obtained at Candahar ; it appears to have a wide range. 6. TARUCUS THEOPHRASTUS. Hesperia theophrastus, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. 3. i. p. 281 (1793). A fair series, but in poor condition. This again is a wdde-ranging species. 7. LYCCENESTHES AMARAH. Poli/ommatus amarah, Lefebvre, Voy. Abyss, vi. p. 3S4, pl. xi. figs. 5, 6 (1847). A rather small and worn pair. 8. ZlZERA GAIKA. Lyccena gaika, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. i. p. 403 (1862). Seven rather worn examples. This is a common and widely distributed African and Arabian insect. 9. PLEBEIUS TROCHILUS. Lyccena trochilus, Freyer, Neuere Beitr. v. pl. 440. fig. 1 (1844). Three examples. 10. VlRACHOLA ANTALUS. Dipsas antalus, Hopffer, Monatsb. k. Akad. AViss. Berlin, 1855, p. 641. Sithon antalus, Hopffer in Peters'Beise n. Mossamb., Ins. p. 400, pl. xxv. figs. 7-9 (1S62). 5 , slightly broken ; very deep in colour. This species is common over a considerable part of Africa, Madagascar, and the Island of Johanna : it varies somewhat on both surfaces as regards the depth of colour above and definition of the markings below. PAPILIONID.L. 11. TERACOLUS CALAIS, var. DTNAMENE. Poutia dynamene, King, Symb. Phys. pl. vi. tigs. 15, 16 (1829). One worn male. 12. TERACOLUS PHISADIA. Pieris phisadia, Godart, Eric, Meth. ix. p. 132 (1S19). Three males, two of them much shattered. An interesting fact respecting this species is that, whereas all Hie Arabian males show a wet phase of under-surface and the Arabian females a dry phase, the same species from Northern Africa sometimes shows a dry phase in the male ; I have not seen enough African examples to enable me to say whether a wet phase of female ever occurs. |