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LYCiENA BiETICA (Linnaeus). 

 Fainlio ba-iicus, LiNN.i:rs, Syst. Nat., I, 2, p. 789, n. 226 (1767). 



This, the most widely distributed Lj'^c^nid butterfly of the Okl World, 

 is represented in the collectiou by two fairly j;ood specimens. 



LYC^NA PALEMON, Cramer. 



Papilio palemon, Ckamer, Pap. Exot., IV, pi. cccxc, tigs. K, F (1782). 



A hue series of twelve specimens of this species which, with L. lingeKs, 

 should be separated as one of the new genera when the final revision 

 of the LyciBiiidie of the world takes place. 



Locality. — Kilimanjaro, 5,000 feet. 



LYCy^NA PERPULCHRA, new species. 

 (Plato YII, tig. 7.) 



The ui)per surface is uniformly pale lilac, shading" at tlie base of the 

 wings into dark gray. The spots of the under surface appear faintly 

 upon the upper side, being reflected through. The margin is fringed 

 with blackish, and tlieie is a black spot surrounded with red between 

 the first and second submcdian nervules upon the secondaries. The 

 under side is utiiformly pale lilac gray. The fringe is black. There is 

 a uniform submarginal baud of subsagittate brown marks upon both 

 wings. At the anal augle of the secondaries there is a black spot 

 slightly irrorated with blue, and between the first and second sub- 

 median nervules a black spot marked with bright blue scales in the 

 center. At the ends of the cells in both wings there is a curved black 

 streak. In addition to this, u[)on the primaries there is a curved row 

 of five large and very distinct black sj^ots, and upon the secondaries 

 three similar black spots at the base, and beyond the cell a row of eight 

 large black spots, forming a longer and shorter loop at the sixth spot, 

 which is the innermost of the series, and is situated just below the 

 black streak at the end of the cell. 



Expanse of wings, 40 mm. 



This species may be distinguished from other African species by its 

 large size and the distinctness of the large black spots upon the under 

 side of the wings. 



One female specimen in the National Museum collection from Kiliman- 

 jaro.' 



'Since the foregoing description was written, this species has been described and 

 renamed by both Mr. A. G. Butler and Mr. Roland Trimen; by the former under the 

 name Castalim hypoleucus (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1893, p. 660), and by the latter 

 under the name Lycwria exclusa (Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1894, p. 47). Inasmuch as 

 the new species in this paper were, through the kind permission of Professor Riley, 

 all briefly diagnosed and published in The Entomologi.st, London, September, 1892, 

 the name herein given to the species has priority and must stand. 



