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Show 1899.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 967 25. EVERES KEDONGA Grose-Smith. (Plate LXX. fig. 4.) 6 6, Plains N. of the Tana River, Kikuyu, 5th January, 1899. Mr. Crawshay sent us the female of this extremely pretty species in his last collection (see P. Z. S. 1899, pl. xiv. figs. 3, 3 a). 26. TARUCUS PLINIUS Fabr. 2, Athi Valley, 16th December, 1898; S, Ndya, 4500 feet, Kikuyu, 16th January, 1899. Of the female Mr. Crawshay observes-" Common, and all evidently newly emerged." 27. ZIZERA KNYSNA Trim. 2, Slopes of Nthatha Hill, 4700 feet, Kitwi, 31st December, 1898; cS, §, Muthambi River, 4500 feet, Ndya, 8th & 10th January, 1899. 28. ZIZERA GAIKA Trim. c? <S, Tana River, 3800 feet, 2nd January ; Neugia, Kitwi, 7th February, 1899. Of the second example Mr. Crawshay observes-" The smallest butterfly I have ever seen." It is a starved specimen. 29. LYCCENESTHES AMARAH Lefeb. 2, Slopes of Nthatha Hill, Kitwi, 4700 feet, 31st December, 1898 ; <S <S, Plains N. of the Tana River, 5th January, Tana River, 3800 feet, 16th January, 1899. 30. CACYREUS LINGEUS Cram. d <$, Clue to exact locality and date lost. 31. PHLYARIA VIRGO Butl. 2 , Muthambi River, 4500 feet, Ndya, 10 January, 1899. " The only specimen I have seen iu these parts, and like, if not identical with, another which I used to take in the mountains of Nyika " (R. C). According to Prof. Aurivillius this is the female of the West Coast P. heritsia, but some of the details of marking make me hesitate to accept this dictum until I have seen East-African males. In my opinion the border of the secondaries is too narrow and the markings on the under surface of these wings too feeble for P. heritsia : I may prove to be wrong, but I very strongly object to putting species together by guess. 32. CHLOROSELAS AZUREA, sp. n. (Plate LXX. figs. 2, 3.) Intermediate between G. tamaniba from Suakin and G. esmeralda from Somali-land; evidently nearest to the former. It is considerably larger than G. esmeralda, the shot-colouring on the upperside of the wings being glistening deep sky-blue instead of emerald shaded with blue: in the primaries this colouring is restricted to the outer half of the internal area and the internal margin nearly |