Description)^ of new Afnvan Leindupttra : by A. H. Butler, 

 E.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. 



Ill the Collection recently Lrought home by ]\Ii". Monteiro 

 are several new species of Acran, Pscudacrcca, &c., which are 

 es}")ecially interesting as illustrations of protective assimi- 

 lation, the moths in the Collection are principally 

 interesting from the fact that very many of tlieni are 

 exceedingly closely allied to Indian forms, so much so 

 indeed that an exjjerienced Lepidopterist, upon looking 

 into the box where they were all together, imagined them 

 to be from E. India. 



To the two or three species now descril)ed from ]\Ir. 

 IMonteiro's Collection, I have added one or two, taken by 

 Du Chaillii in Gaboon. 



SUB-FAMILY DANAIN^. Baks. 



GENUS AMAURIS. Huhner. 



1. Amauris Hyalites, n. sp. 



I'rimaries above black, bi'ownish at base, spottecl with 

 hyaline white as in A. Egialea, excepting that the two 

 central spots are more equal in size and further apart, and 

 that the central spot of the second oblique series is not 

 subdivided into two spots, but is enlarged and crossed by 

 both the radial nervures ; secondaries black at base ; 

 central area quadrately whitish hyaline, ochre-tinted at 

 abdominal margin ; outer margin broadly black, becoming 

 brownish at anal angle, enclosing eight sulnnarginal white 

 s]iots ; body, thorax black white spotted, abdomen brownish 

 ochraceous, whitish below ; wings below paler than above, 

 primaries with apical area olivaceous brown ; secondaries 

 with base and outer margin brownish ochraceous ; three 



