June-Sept. iSg4.' 



PSYCHE. 



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the third spot toward the m;ugin are two pale 

 ochreous spots opposite the baibs of spot 

 three, and between them exactly on the 

 marsjin a small transverse ochreous spot. 

 The margin from the extremity of vein three 

 to the inner angle is checkered with whitish 

 hinulate markings. The secondaries are 

 fawn-colored like the outer margin of the 

 primaries with the costa shining testaceous 

 and the inner margin laved with pale ferru- 

 ginous. The cell contains a subtriangular 

 translucent white spot. On either side of 

 the cell and just beyond it are some minute 

 transverse pale ferruginous lines. Beyond 

 the cell, the wing is crossed by an irregular 

 series of translucent white markings, one of 

 which, the largest, located on vein six, is 

 subhastate in form. Those nearest the anal 

 angle coalesce, forming an incomplete trans- 

 verse band enlarged in the direction of the 

 costa. Near the'extremity of vein two upon 

 the outer margin are two small white spots. 

 The scalloped portion of the inner margin 

 from vein three to the analangle is obscurely 

 edged with whitish. On the under side, both 

 wings are whitish towai'd the base laved 

 with fawn on the outer margin, and the spots 

 and lines of the upper surface reappear upon 

 this side. Expanse, 45 mm. 



I referred this species originally to the 

 genus Zethe.s, together with the two succeed- 

 ing species, but except for the crenulate out- 

 line of the inner half of the outer margin of 

 the secondaries, I can find no substantial 

 ground for separating these forms from the 

 genus Episparis. The genus Zethes as rep- 

 resented by the Indian forms in my collection 

 appears at all events not to be the proper 

 receptacle for these African insects. 



100. E. coiiHiibens, sp. nov. J . The 

 antennae are heavily doubly ciliate for about 

 half their length from their insertion. The 

 palpi and the front are chestnut-brown. 

 The collar and the upper side of the thorax 

 and abdomen are fawn. The lower side of 

 the thorax and abdomen are white, except at 



the tip of the abdomen, which is shaded with 

 fawn. The legs are white with the anterior 

 margins of the first pair and the end of the 

 tibiae in the second and third pair marked 

 with dark brown. The tarsi, which are 

 white, are minutely ringed with dark brown. 

 The primaries and secondaries are fawn on 

 the upper surface. There is a minute white 

 dot on the costa at the base and at the costal 

 extremity of the sub-basal and discal trajjs- 

 verse lines. The wing is traversed bj' very 

 irregular and sharply zigzagged transverse 

 basal, sub-basal, median, and limbal lines, of 

 which the median line is the heaviest and 

 somewhat diftuse. The remaining lines are 

 fine. There is an irregularly curved sub- 

 marginal series of dark spots running from 

 the apex, curving inwardly to the outer 

 angle. The spots located opposite the end 

 of the cell and on either side of vein three 

 have translucent whitish centres The 

 fringes are obscurely checkered with pale 

 ochreous on the interspaces, and there are 

 some obscure ru.sty patches of scales near the 

 extremity of vein three. The secondaries 

 are pale fawn with the costa near the base 

 shining stramineous, and the inner margin 

 clothed with whitish hairs. The wing is 

 crossed about its middle by a transverse 

 series of lines and markings, running from 

 the costa to the anal angle. The spots com- 

 posing this series have white translucent 

 disks margined with dark fuscous tinged 

 with ferruginous about the end of the cell. 

 On the lower side, the wings are very pale 

 fuscous, shading into whitish on the base 

 and upon the inner margin of the primaries. 

 Both wings have a distinct but minute 

 blackish discal dot at the end of the cell, .suc- 

 ceeded by incomplete transverse median and 

 limbal bands. The limbal band is composed 

 of dark brown subhastate markings located 

 on the interspaces. The submarginal spots 

 of the primaries reappear on the lower side 

 and the outer margin near the extremity of 

 the median nervules is marked with pale 

 ferruginous maculations. 



