Butterflies from the Kihuyu Qountry and Mombasa. Ill long. Halteres present. Length of body, incluiling genital spike, -890 millim.; length of genital spike '205 millim. Ilab. Ypiranga, State of S. Paulo. On a bush of the order Myrtacea3. The females are found on the upperside of the leaves, but the male scales are usually clustered along the midrib on the underside of the leaves. XVI. — On a small Collection of Butterflies from the Kihuiju Country and Momhasa made hy the Rev. K. St. Aubyii Rogers. By Akthur G. Butler, Ph.D. It will be remembered that in the ' Annals ' for January last I published an account of a collection of butterflies made by Mr. Rogers between Mombasa and the Forests of Taveta, and that therein I called attention to certain species which were either new to the Museum collection or of which we required additional examples. Mr. Rogers has now sent some of the specimens asked for, together with a series of butterflies collected by him last year in the Kikuyu country, which is especially interesting as supplementing my paper upon Mr. Crawshay's collections recently published in the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society.' The present consignment from Mr. Rogers consists of fifty-six species, some of which are of considerable rarity iu collections ; the following are of especial importance to us: — Both sexes of Precis Westermanni (in t\YO pairs) j Axiocerses punicea, new to the Museum ; the female of Viraohola duriaves, which was also new to the general collection — of this species Mr. Rogers observes that he has only once come across it, " at a place about 14 miles up the creek, wliere it was quit 3 common," so that he did not trouble much about it; Uraao-thauma cordatus and Falkensteini ; Cyclyreus Sharp ice ; Mylo-thris ruhricosta and the female of M. Jacksoni, which was new to us; a pair of Terias regularis (no. 250), which we have not received commonly from Eastern Africa ; Teraoolus Eothschildi in both sexes ; a male of T. castalis ; a beautiful and very lightly magenta-spotted male of T. elyonensis (^l^)j of which we previously only possessed the worn male collected by Mr. Crawshay ; Belenois margaritacea, of which we pre-viously only had one example; females of Papilio Mac-Icinnoni and Jacksoni ; an example of what I believe to ba Sarangesa ophthalmica, and which is new to the Museum. No new species were obtaiued, but a list of the species with 9*
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