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78. Salpinx hansemanni Jlomatb. 

 There is a series of twenty-one specimens of this grand sjiecies in the collection, 

 of both sexes. The males vary considerably, some being of the form represented by 

 Dr. Staudinger in Iris, under the name of 8. dursteini ; others have a single row of 

 spots round the disc, situate about halfway between the pale blue area and the outer 

 margin, and in others there is a second row of smaller spots near the margin, more or 

 less constantly represented. Of the females there are three forms, the typical form 

 figured by ]\Ir. Honrath in the Berliner Entcmiologische Zeitsckrift, the posterior 

 wings being broadly radiated with white, the form figured by Dr. Staudinger in Iris, 

 under the name of dursteini, and the third form having the anterior wings brown, 

 with purple reflexions, a blue patch with some scattered blue scales round it at the 

 end of the cell, and a curved row of six blue bars or streaks outside the cell. Tlie 

 bars are irregular in shape and more or less connected by scattered blue scales, and in 

 one specimen there is a submarginal row of blue spots. The posterior wings are 

 brown, very pale towards the costa, darkest in the lower two-thirds of the cell and the 

 region round it, with three pale blue streaks outside the cell, and lying between the 

 discoidal and median nervules ; there is also a faint indication of a submarginal row of 

 l)ale spots. This butterfly is very near S. mesocala Voll. 



79. Stictoploea inconspicua Butl. 

 A series of six males. 



80. Stictoploea aethiopina sp. nov. 



Female. — Upperside : both wings dark brown, paler towards the outer margins, 

 the spots on the underside showing faintly. Anterior wings with a round white spot, 

 a little beyond the middle of the costa between the first and second costal nervules. 

 Posterior wings with an ovate brownish white spot in a similar position. 



Underside with a spot in the cell, another between the first and second subcostal 

 nervules, a curved row of six spots beyond the cell across the disc, the first indistinct 

 above the costa between the second and third subcostal nervules, the other five between 

 the discoidal and median nervules, the four uppermost being elongated, and the two 

 lowest round, followed towards the outer margin by another curved row of seven spots, 

 the first near the costal margin, the lowest between the ndddle and lowest median 

 nervules, a submarginal row of six minute white spots between the veins, the first 

 .situate above the ui)permost median nervule, a long whitish streak below the cell 

 reaching nearly to the base, the space below which to the submedian nervure and 

 extending nearly to the outer margin is dusky grey, the area below the submedian 

 nervure to the inner margin is brownish white. Posterior wings with a small spot in 

 the cell, a row of seven spots beyond and cm'ving round the cell, beyond which 

 across the disc is another row of sjjots between the veins but not extending beyond 

 the submedian nervure; another row of small spots in pairs between the veins near 

 the margin and likewise ceasing at tlie submedian nervure. 



Expanse: Scinches. 



Huh. jMansinam. 



Two examples ordy. It is not unlikely that this is the female of S. conspicita, 

 but on the underside the spots are more abundant, and the pale streak below the cell 

 is much more elongate. 



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