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DESCEIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF AFEICAN LJEPIDOPTERA. 



BY CHRISTOPHER WARD/F.L.S. 



{continued from vol. i\,p. 210). 



Eronia Zelinda, n. s. 



(J . Upper-side : fore-wing white, with anterior and outer margin bordered with 

 black, broad at the apex, and narrowing down to the anal angle. Hind-wing 

 entirely white. 



Under-side : fore-wing clear white and lustrous, apex tinged with brown. Hind- 

 wing greenish-white, lightest at inner margin and with numerous small waved 

 hues of light brown ; a small spot at the end of cell. 



Expanse, 2i inches. Habitat, Eibe, East Africa ; Angola. 



Tliis species seems well defined from E. Biipceti by tbe black 

 margins of anterior wings, which are very constant in a series of 

 specimens which I have received, and most decided in those from Eibe. 



AcR-EA CtdOjS'ia, n. s. 



Upper-side : both wings tawny- yellow. Fore -wing : apex, outer margin, and upper 

 margin from the base to a little beyond the cell, where it widens, bordered with 

 brown. Hind-wing : outer margin brown, broadest at the anal angle, and with 

 radiating lines inwards ; close to the base thi-ee small brown spots. 



Under-side : as upper, but lighter in shade, and the radiate markings continued round 

 the outer margin of both wings ; two small black spots witliin the cell of hind- 

 wing, two above and three below it, all near the base. 



Expanse, 2 inches. Habitat, Camaroons, Angola. 



ACR^A SAMBAYiE, 11. S. 



(J . Upper-side : fore-wing lustrous and transparent ; nervures and outer margin 

 shaded with brown ; cell, and basal half of vring, red. Hind-wing bright red, 

 shading to yellow at the inner margin ; outer mai'gin with triangular black spots 

 at the end of each nerwire ; from centre of upper margin to centre of mner 

 margin a curved line of seven black spots, largest near the inner margin ; base 

 with five black spots. 



Under-side : as above, but the red replaced by a Light pink. 



Expanse, 2i inches. Habitat, Madagascar. 



EuRTPHEis'E Pluto, n. s. 



Upper-side : both wings dark brown, crossed midway from below the cell of the 

 fore- wing to inner margin of hind-wing by a clear yellowish- white band, a naiTOW 

 line of the same colour following outer margins, and beyond the cell of fore-wing a 

 diagonal broken line of spots. 



Under-side : light brown, and the yellowish markings as above, but replaced with 

 clear white, and with two additional white lines near inner margin. Following 

 the outer margin of both wings, a line of black spots edged inAvardly with wliite. 



