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 If). Dicallaneura leucomelas spec. nov. 



$. Dicallaneura amahilis Rothschild, I.e. t. 2. f. 22 (1004) (Owgarra ; imii (J). 



The present collection of A. S. Meek jirovcs that we were wrong in iissociatiug 

 this insect, which has a white and olive-black njiperside, with the preceJiug one. 

 The two 6 c? and four ? ? contained in the present collection leave no donbt aliont 

 its lieiug a distinct species. The sexes are practically identical. The wings of 

 the ? are rather broader than in the c?, t,he tail is wider, the white area of the 

 forewing and the costal patch of the hindwing are a little larger, and the ground- 

 colour of the underside is slightly paler. For further details see descriptions and 

 figui'e of ? , I.e. 



Type: S. 



LYCAENIDAE. 

 17. Hypoclirysops meeki spec. nuv. 



S. Palpus grey, black at apex and above, with chestnut scales on side. Frons 

 and occiput black, the former with two cinuamon-rufous vittae and along eye a 

 grey line, a belt behind eyes cinnamon-rufous ; thorax above blackish olive-green, 

 slightly blnish ; abdomen black, with violet reflections ; underside of thorax and 

 abdomen clayish grey, sides of breast somewhat ferruginous. Foretibia with thorn 

 at apex. 



Wings, al/ori; black. Forewiiig bright metallic blue from base to disc, this 



area extending anteriorly to middle of cell and being at (SM') about 2 mm. short 



of distal margin. Hindwing also with a brilliant blue basi-discal area, which 



is shot with purple in front and beliind as well as distally between the veins, the 

 area being expanded between SO and SM-, reaching rather close to distal edge ; 

 fringe of both wings more or less dirty grey, excejit at tips of veins. 



Underside of hindwing and costal and apical areas of forewing cinnamon- 

 rufous.- Forewing smoky grey at hinder margin and ochraceous from (SJ\I') 



forward to lower angle of cell ; two lines along S(J and another in middle of cell 

 greenish or blnisli silvery, the mesial cell-line curved backwards at apex ; a row 

 of five submarginal dots of the same metallic colour standing at the distal side 

 of minute black dots ; between this row and the cell tlie following metallic spots : 

 four minute dots SC — SC^', three rather larger dots SC^' — 11', a bar It' — 11^ near 

 cell and another bar near submarginal dot, a bar K' — M' proximally of outer bar 



li'— R'; basal area blackish from cell backwards. Hindwing with numerous 



metallii^ bars liordering cinnamon-rul'ous spots of a deeper tint than the ground- 

 colour, the bars greenish silvery as on forewing : four bars C — SC-, with a clayish 

 bar between the first and second and again between the third and fourth, two 

 bars SC" — R', with a clayish bar between them : eight bars in cell and between 

 R' and R^, the first double, a clayish bar proximally of last ; two bars R' — M', 

 with a clayish one in between ; three bars M' — M-, with a clayish one at base 

 and another between second and third ; eight bars M- — SM-, the most distal but 

 one jiartly clayish, all continuous with the bars in front of them ; six bars SM- — SM', 

 jjartly edged with black; the submarginal bars form an intci'rniited line, while the 

 other bars stand jiartly on tiie interspaces of the bars which are situated before 

 and behind them ; an oblique metallic line at base before C 



? . Not known. 



Length of forewing : 14 to lU mm. 



A series of cJcJ. 



