124 [November, 



Poflterior wing crossed by three similar bands ; the first, wliicli is 

 parallel to the inner margin, meets the third, which is in the middle, 

 at the anal angle ; the second ia short. 



Exp. 1^, inch. JIah. : South Africa. 



jN'earest to I. Bo^vhcri. 



HxpoLTCiEisrA Aruma, sp. n. 

 Upper-side : ^ . Anterior wing purple, with a scarlet spot on 

 the inner margin a little below the base. Posterior wing scarlet, with 

 one tail ; the costal margin purple, the outer margin black, narrow. 



Under-side : white, with the outer margins pale brown. Both 

 wings crossed by a straight rufous band. Posterior wing with a large 

 orange spot, marked with black, at the base of the tails ; the lobe and 

 a spot near it black, crowned with pale blue. 



Exp. It'o inch. Hah.: West Africa (Gaboon; Rogers). 



On the under-side, this, the most beautiful species of the genus, 

 resembles H". Eleala. 



Htpoltcjejia Mera, sp. n. 

 Upper-side : ^ . Ultramarine blue. Anterior wing with the base, 

 the costal and outer margins (which are broad), and a band at the end 

 of the cell, dark brown. Posterior wing with one tail ; the nervures 

 and the outer margin, which is very narrow, black ; the lobe black, 

 decorated with scarlet and blue. 



Under-side : white. Both wings crossed by a broad rufous band. 

 Anterior wing with two sub-marginal bands of pale brown spots. 

 Posterior wing with a large orange-yellow spot at the base of the tails, 

 marked by a large black spot and a small spot of the same colour ir- 

 rorated with silver-blue ; lobe black, bordered above and below with 

 silver-blue. 



Exp. -^3 inch. Hah.: "West Africa (Angola; Sogers). 



HxPOLTCiENA NaARA, Sp. 01. 



Upper-side : $ . Dark blue. Anterior wing with the costal and 

 outer margins dark brown ; a brown discal spot as in the TJiecIte, but 

 placed lower down upon the median ncrvure. Posterior wing with 

 two tails, broadly fringed with white : the outer margin black, dcntated, 

 with a broad white fringe ; the lobe black. 



Under-side : white. Both wings crossed a little beyond the mid- 

 dle by a narrow rufous band, slightly zig-zag on the posterior wing, 

 and a sub-marginal linear bi'own band. Anterior wing with the outer 



