( 19 ) II. An Account of a Collection of Rhopalocera made at Zomha in British Central Africa. By Pekcy I. Lathy. Comnmnicated by Charles J. Gahan, M. A. [Read November 21st, 190U.] Plate III. During the past two years Mr. H. J, Adams, F.E.S., has been receiving consignments of Lepidoptera horn Zomba ; as the collection contains a few novelties, and some species which have not been hitherto recorded from the locality, an account of it may perhaps be of interest. In all, one hundred and seventy-six species of Rhopalo-cera were obtained, and considering tliis was the work of an untrained collector, it was I think a satisfactory result. The principal feature of the collection, as in others made in the same locality, is the number of Charaxes, it containing no less than twenty species, many of them rare, and one, C. ctesipe, Godt., that has been hitherto regarded as a West African species. The females of Mylothris rulricosta, ]VIab., and Fapilio pelod'itrus, Butl., are also in the collection. My thatdcs are due to Dr. Butler and Mr. Heron of the Natural History Museum for their kind assistance in enabling me to determine many of the species, and to Dr. Jordan for his help with the Charaxes. The arrangement followed in this list is that of Dr. Holland for the Hesperiidse, and Prof. Aurivillius for the other families. 1. Danais clirysippus. Papilio chrysip)pns, Linn., Mus. Lud. Ulr., p. 263 (1764). 2. Danais dorippus. Eiip)la:a dorijjpus, Klug., Symb. Piiys., t. 48, f. 1-5 (1845). S. Amauris dominicamcs. Amauris dominicanus, Trim., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1879, p. 323. 4. Amauris ochlea. Danais ochlea, Boisd., Voy. Deleg., ii, p. 589 (1847). TRANS. ENT. SOC. LOND. 1901. — PART L (APRIL)
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