328 W. J. HOLLAND. 



primaries. Both wings crossed near the base and at the middle by 

 three bands of dark red margined by black. Of these bands the one 

 near the middle is the widest. Both wings crossed beyond the middle 

 by a band of broad hinules, compressed and fused at the nervules, of 

 a light fawn color, with dark sagittate marks in the centre and sur- 

 rounded by dark brown outer shades. These markings grow grad- 

 ually darker from the costa of the anterior wings toward the anal 

 angle of the posteriors. The cell in both anterior and posterior 

 wings crossed near the middle and at the end by geminate black 

 lines, the spaces between which are light rufous. Anterior wings 

 with a marginal line of black ; posterior with geminate submarginal 

 lines, the interspace being rufous brown. A white, subapical spot 

 on primaries. Fringe white. Under surface as the upper, but the 

 marginal area much lighter, save at apex, and the spots and lines 

 broader and heavier though less sharply defined, and more preva- 

 lently rufous than on the upper side. Palpi, thorax and abdomen 

 concolorous. Expanse of wings 2| inches. 



Described from one imperfect 9 in coll. Holland, from Ogove 

 River, W. Africa. 



This is, as Mr. Hew'itson remarks, " the largest species of the genus." 



Genus CREIVIS, Boisduval. 

 Myscelia, Sect. 4. ('rents, Doubleday. 



Ennlca, p. Felder. 

 Crenis Ainiilia. Cram, plate ix, fig. 1, 9 . 



PapUio Amulia Cram. Pap. Exot. II, t, 180, C (1779). 



Papilio Amalia (sic), Fabr. Eut. Syst. Ill, i. p. 129, No. 398 (1793). 



Nymphalis Amulia Godt. Enc. Meth. IX, p. 388, No. 135 (1823). 



Papilio Amalia, Donovan, Nat. Rep. II, t. 40, fig. 2 (1824). 



Crenis Amulia, Butl. Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, p. 222, t. 17, figs. 3, 4. 



Female. — Upper surface of primaries and secondaries brown, giv- 

 ing off in certain lights a brilliant pink-purple reflection, not, how- 

 ever, as intense as in the male. Apex and outer margin of the 

 primaries deep brown or black. Three black spots just beyond the 

 cell of primaries unite to form a dark transverse shade, or fascia, 

 extending from the costa half way across the wing toward the inner 

 angle. The space between this shade and the dark shading of the 

 apex is much lighter, but broken by the nervules. which are shaded 

 on either side by black, and by a black subapical spot situated be- 

 tween the fifth subcostal and the discoidal nervule. Posterior wings 

 with the markings of the under surface more or less distinctly visible 



