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Show 1899.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 975 66. BAORIS AURITINCTUS Butl. 6, Tana River, 3800 feet, 16th January, 1899. " Taken in m y two hands and then manipulated so as to enable m e to transfix it with a thorn, after which I was able to administer the necessary pinch " (R. C). 67. BAORIS MARANGA, sp. n. (Plate LXX. fig. 5.) Not nearly related to anything known to me. Wings deep smoky brown; the male with three unequal streaks of bronze-brown only visible in certain lights, divided by the median vein with its first and second branches; fringe towards anal angle of secondaries and anal tuft paler: wings below slightly more silky than above; primaries with an oblique series of three whitish dots beyond the cell; secondaries with a central patch slightly paler than the ground-colour. Expanse of wings 32 millim. The female chiefly differs in having five transparent spots in the primaries-three in an oblique series beyond the cell (answering to those on the under surface of the male), and two placed obliquely near the base of the median interspaces ; fringe towards anal angle of secondaries and anal tuft whitish. Expanse of wings 34 millim. Muthambi River, 4500 feet, Ndya, 7th & 10th January, 1899. Of the male Mr. Crawshay writes, " A new shipper to m e ; " and of the female, " Greenish-white spherical ova." This species, though unlike any other African species that I have seen, either in collections or plates, and unrecognizable in any published description that I have met with, is perhaps more nearly related to B. alberti than to any other known species. 68. RHOPALOCAMPTA ANCHISES Gerst. 2 , Bondoni Plains, 5400 feet, 8th December, 1898. In the present collection Mr. Crawshay unfortunately did not follow his usual plan of putting the exact locality on every envelope, but in some instances referred to a number; thus :- See no. 166, 125, or 146, place and date. Not being at all prepared for this, I took no special note of these collector's numbers until I came to one of the notes, by which time no. 166 had been incorporated and I had lost all clue to it; the others I happily found : this will account for the absence of exact localities and dates for several species, they are all referred to no. 166 (cf. Acrcea cabira, Cacyreus lingeus, and Eretis cljcelcelce). One other species was obtained by Mr. Crawshay-a possibly new Tpthima,-but in such a shattered condition that it is neither fit for description nor for the collection ; it is also referred to the unlucky number. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LXX. Fig. 1. Catochrysops peculiaris, 2 (intermediate phase), p. 965. 2, 3. Chloroselas azurea, 6 2 > P* 967. 4. Everes Jcedonya, 6 • P- 967. 5. Baoris maranya, 6. P- 975. 6, 7. Pinacopteryx astarte, 6 2 • P- 971. 8, 9. „ vidua, 6 2 > P- 972. 63 » |