LIBYTHEID^. 



LIBYTHEA. 



I.— LIBYTHEA ANCOATA. Figs. 9, 10. 



Lihythea Ancoata, H. Grose-Smith, "Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.'" 

 Ser. 6, p. 126 (January, 1891). 



Exp. li inches. 



Upperside resembles L. Cimjras, Trim., from Mauritius, but the spots in 

 the cell and on posterior wings smaller and greyer. It differs from L. Lahdaca, 

 Westw., in the absence of the brownish-grey patch between the lowest median 

 nervule and siibmedian nervure on the anterior wings, and on the posterior 

 wings in the band of spots below the cell being very nearly obsolete. On the 

 underside of the anterior wings the brown spaces within the cell are narrower 

 than in either L. Cinyras or L. Lahdaca. On the posterior wings at the lower side 

 of the cell from the base to beyond its end is a somewhat curved greyish-black 

 band followed at the middle of the outer margin by a similar patch of the same 

 colour. 



Hab. N.W. Coast of Madagascar (Last). 



la tlia Collection of Mr. Grose-Smith. 



II.— LIBYTHEA TSIANDAVA. Figs. 11, 12. 



Lihythea Tsiandava, H. Grose-Smith, "Annals and Mag. Nat. Hist.," Ser. 6, 

 p. 81 (July, 1891). 



Exp. If inches. 



Male. Upperside. Anterior wings resemble those of L. Laius, Trimen, 

 but the fulvous longitudinal bar in the cell is uninterrupted and wider than ni 

 Laius, and the subovate discal spot, which is traversed by the second median 

 nervule, is larger. On the posterior wdngs it also resembles L. Laius, but the 

 small ochreous spot of L. Laius above the second subcostal nervule is absent, and 

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