New or little-known African Butterflies. 9 
pair being in cell towards extremity ; in discal series of spots the 
first, seventh, and eighth are largest and most elongate, while the 
fifth (in fork of second and third median nervules) is minute ; 8 
silvery marks in submarginal series, of which the last is elongate and 
extends from submedian nervure to inner-margin ; between the 7th 
mark and a silvery hindmarginal spot is an orange-yellow mark, and 
at anal angle a large round black spot. 
Described from four examples, which vary somewhat 
in the size and distinctness of the black spots of the 
underside. 
On the upperside this butterfly looks very like an 
ordinary Lycwnesthes or Hypolycena, but the underside 
pattern and markings are quite unlike anything in those 
genera, and come near to those found in Aphnaus pseudo- 
zeritis, Trim., while their colouring resembles that of the 
more brightly marked examples of “Zeritis leroma (Wallgr.). 
The singular association of an entirely separate black spot 
with nearly every silvery spot is altogether peculiar, and 
at first sight renders it difficult to gain a clear idea of the 
actual pattern. 
Mr. G. A. K. Marshall wrote that he had taken eleven 
males, but no female, of this curious little species in the 
Mazoe River district of Mashunaland during the last ten 
days of October, 1894; he notes it as abundant about the 
same “machabel” trees at the top of a kopje that were 
frequented by Aphnxus erikssoni and its congeners. 
Genus APHNZUS, 
Aphneus erikssoni, Trim. (Pl. I, fig. 5, $). 
2. Aphnexus erikssoni, Trim., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
1891, p. 86, n. 65; pl. ix, fig. 15. 
3d Exp. al. 1 in. 6$-74 lin. Ground-colour brighter and deeper 
in tint than that of the 2, more ferruginous, and bounded hind- 
marginally by an ill-defined narrow fuscous border ; forewing with 
the discal yellow-ochreous spots redder in tint and better defined, 
and with a small irregular basi-inner-marginal patch of bright 
metallic blue. Forewing: a narrow fuscous cloud along costal 
margin ; terminal disco-cellular spot narrow, vertical ; 5 discal spots 
rounded, distinct, ringed with dark scales; blue patch from base 
