LIBYTHEID.E. — LIBYTHEA. 



in the straight longitudinal bar of four contiguous spots beyond the middle the 

 second spot is the largest, instead of the first, as in L. Laius. 



On the UNDERSIDE it is paler and browner than L. Laius, and on the anterior 

 wings the pale fulvous colouring of the bar and spots extends below the cell 

 and over nearly the whole of the central area of the wings. 

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



In the Collection of Mr. Grose-Smith. 



III.— LIBYTHEA PULCHRA. Figs. 13, 14. 



Lihythea Fulchm, Butl., "Annals Nat. Hist.," Ser. 5, Vol. X., p. 149 (1882). 



Exp. 2 inches. 

 " Allied to L. Gcoffroyi (Godt.) and L. Antipoda (Boisd.). Wings above bright 

 lilac, the whole disc of the secondaries bright fulvous orange, borders of all 

 the wings narrowly dark brown ; veins brown ; thorax blue-green, tips of 

 palpi and shoulders brown ; abdomen brown, bluish at base, greyish-brown 

 spotted with black at the sides. Primaries below ochraceous, apical area brown 

 crossed by a vague band of greyish lilac ; borders brown, the costa traversed 

 by darker striations ; secondaries rosy lilacine, alternating with four bands of 

 bronze-brown and striated with the same colour; body ashy-whitish, the 

 pectus bluish at the sides." 



Hab. New Britain. 



In the Collections of Mr. Grose-Smith and others. 



