LIST OF THE LEPIDOPTEKA COLLECTED IN EASTEliN AFRICA BY DE. W. L. ABBOTT, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME APPARENTLY NEW SPECIES. By W. J. Holland, Ph. D. The collectiou of Lepi(ioi)tera referred to me for determination from tlie U. S. National Museum, contains ninety-one species of Rbopalocera and forty-six species of Heterocera. They had all been pinned and expanded at the National Museum, and a small ticket with the word Zanzibar written upon it afiQxed to the pins in most cases. In a. few cases there was in addition a label in another handwriting, presumably that of Dr. Abbott, giving information as to the exact locality from which certain specimens came. An examination renders it probable that these latter labels are clipped from the envelopes in which the insects were originally packed. In a number of instances it is plain that instead of having come from Zanzibar or its immediate vicinity, as the small labels affixed at the Museum would indicate, they must have come from the interior, and from a relatively high altitude above the level of the sea. The collection contains only a small number of species new to science, the great majority being species well known from other localities, and noticeably from temperate South Africa, many of them species named in the last century. The presence ofaiiAi'gynnis and a CJinjsophanus in tlie collection is ])eculiarly interesting, and suggests to the student the thought that when a more thorough exploration of the lofty heights of Kilimanjaro, Kenia and Ruwenzori shall have been made, there will be some very remarkable, if not astonishing, facts brought to light as to the geographical distribution of animals. Suborder RHOPALOCERA. Family NYMPHALID^E, Swainson. Genus DANAIS, Latreille. DANAIS CHRYSIPPUS, Linnaeus, var. KLUGII, Butler. Limnas klugii, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 758. Euplwa (Jorippus, var. khcgii, Klug, Syml). Pbys., pi. XLViii, fig. 5. There are two females and one male specimen of this species in the collection. The females differ in size, and the larger example exceeds Proceediiiga of the United States National Museum, Vol. XVIII— No. 1002. 229
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