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Bulterjlies of Southern Kordofan. 273 usual exception of the black border inwardly tinged with yellow " (Eltringham).

y. Form dori])pus, Klug.

One <$ and one $ from J. Tira Mandi, Nov. 25, 1901.

<5. Form albinus, Lanz. One <$, Kadugli, Dec. 13, 1904. " The white covers a large area of the hind-wings. There is the usual trace of the ancestral white bar in the subapical region of the fore-wings " (Eltringham).

2. Tirumala petiverana, Dbl. and Hew.

One $, Khor Nueila [Lat. 11° 21' N.], May 26, 1906. The locality is at least 2° further north than that given in the White Nile list.

Sub-family SATYRINAE.

3a. Mycalesis milyas, Hew.

Two $$ of the drv-season form, Tira Mandi, Nov. 23, 1904. Not in the White Nile list. Dr. Eltringham notes that the British Museum specimens are from Atbara (Abyssinia).

Aurivillius [Seitz, " Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde "] gives White Nile, and says it spreads to the Congo and Togo.

Sub-family NYMPHALINAE.

[4. It is remarkable that Pyrameis cardui, Linn., is not included in the collection.]

5. Precis oenone cebrene, Trimen.

One J, two ??, Kadugli [Lat. 11° 0' N.], Dec. 13, 1904.

G. Precis clelia, Cram.

One <?, Tira Mandi [Lat. 10° 52' N.]. Nov. 25, 1904.

This is more than 1° further north than in the White Nile list. "This species has recently suffered from the attention of the German entomologist Strand, who has given nine new names to trifling aberrations" (Eltringham).

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