326 Mr. Roland Trimen on 



white oblique costal bar of forewing very much broader. 

 On underside of forewing the two inner bluish spots in 

 discoidal cell are enlarged and confluent, forming a short 

 rather Avide bar indented outwardly. 



Intimately allied to D. de7idroj)hilus, Trimen ( Trans. 

 Ent. Soc. 3rd Ser. i. p. 399, and Rho-p. Afr. Aust. ii. 

 p. 191, pi. 3, f. 8), but at once known by the very con- 

 spicuous white spots of the foreicings, particularly those 

 of the inner row, wdiich in D. dendrophilus are always 

 small and ochreous and externally ill-defined or suflfused, 

 and in some specimens almost indistinguishable from the 

 general ochreous clouding. The continuous costal bar 

 formed by the conjunction of the upper 4 spots of this 

 row is the most striking feature of this character ; it is 

 quite constant in the male, and much developed in the 

 only female that I have seen. The larger size and darker 

 ground-colour, as well as the much brighter ochre-yellow 

 of the hindwings, are also very noticeable in Indosa ; 

 while the underside of the hindwings is paler and more 

 variegated. The ocelli are larger and more conspicuous 

 than in DeJidrophiliis, and are much more constant in 

 number (5) and position ; the species just named pos- 

 sessing from 5 to 7, but more commonly 6 or 7 on the 

 upperside, but invariably 7 on the underside. 



^«Z».— Natal (Tunjumbili, 1867; Pinetown, 1879; 

 Illovo, 1879). R. Trimen, CoL J. H. 

 Bowker, F. P. Payn. 

 Transvaal (Leydenburg District). T. Ayres 

 [in South African Museum]. 



Sub-family NYMPHALiNJi:, Bates. 



Genus Lachnopteea, E. Doubl. 



Lacfmoptera Ayresii, sp. nov. 



Exp. al. (^) 2 in. 4i lin.; (?) 2 in. 7^ lin. 



$. Warm fulvous-ochreous (a faint rosy-violaceous sur- 

 face-gloss) with fuscous markings. Forewing : beyond 

 middle a conspicuous transverse bar from costa to 3rd 

 median nervule, exteriorly irregularly dentated, interiorly 

 suffused and emitting two linear rays (along costa and 

 sub-costal nervure respectively) towards base ; about mid- 

 way between this bar and apex a similar much smaller 

 bar, not extending below 1st radial, exteriorly confused 



