The source of the Blue Nile : $b a record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the return to Egypt by the valley of the Atbara, with a note on the religion, customs, etc. of AbyssiniaHayes, Arthur J.
Religion
The source of the Blue Nile : $b a record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the return to Egypt by the valley of the Atbara, with a note on the religion, customs, etc. of Abyssinia
Hayes, Arthur J.
Ethiopia -- Description and travel; Ethiopia -- Religion; Sudan -- Description and travel
DANAINAE: 1 _Limnas chrysippus_ (Linn.) ♀. The ground colour
of the pale tint characteristic of Oriental
specimens and usually replaced by a much darker
shade in African.
DANAINAE: 2 _L. chrysippus_ (Linn.) var. _alcippus_ (Cram.)
♂♂. Typical.
NYMPHALINAE: 1 _Neptis agatha_ (Cram.).
1 _Precis cebrene_ (Trim.).
PAPILIONIDAE.
PIERINAE: 1 _Catopsilia florella_ (Fabr.) ♂.
2 _Colias electra_ (Linn.) ♂ ♀.
3 _Terias brigitta_ (Cram.) ♂ ♂ ♀.
Dry season forms; not extreme.
3 _Eronia leda_ (Boisd.) ♂ ♀ ♀.
One of these females has an orange apical patch
on the forewing, almost as distinct as that of
the male.
1 _Pinacopteryx_ sp. ?
A female, rather worn; simulating _Mylothris
agathina_ ♀.
Probably a new species, but being in poor
condition and a single specimen it would not
be advisable to describe it.
1 _Belenois severina_ (Cram.) ♀. Dry season form.
1 _Phrissura_ sp. ♂.
A male, of the _P. sylvia_ group. This form of
_Phrissura_ has not previously been recorded
from any part of East Africa.
PAPILIONINAE: 8 _Papilio demodocus_ (Esp.).
=HYMENOPTERA.=
1 _Dorylus fimbriatus_ (Shuck.) ♂.
=COLEOPTERA.=
LAMELLICORNIA.
SCARABAEIDAE: 1 _Oniticellus inaequalis_ (Reiche).
Only known from Abyssinia.
CETONIIDAE: 1 _Pachnoda abyssinica_ (Blanch.).
1 _Pachnoda stehelini_ (Schaum).
Both Abyssinian species.
PHYTOPHAGA.
CASSIDIDAE: 1 _Aspidomorpha punctata_ (Fab.).
HETEROMERA.
CANTHARIDAE: 2 _Mylabris_, probably a new species.
=NEUROPTERA.=
1 _Nemoptera_, probably a new species.
=ORTHOPTERA.=
ACRIDIIDAE: 1 _Cyrtacanthacris_ sp.
1 _Phymateus brunneri?_ (Bolivar).
1 _Phymateus leprosus_ (Fab.).
1 _Petasia anchoreta_ (Bolivar).
MANTIDAE: 1 _Sphodromantis bioculata_ (Burm.).
1 _Chiropus aestuans?_ (Sauss.).
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