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(2nd) in the broad, even, superiorly-rounded hand of 

 hindnnngs ; and (3rd) in having four (instead of three) 

 parallel hind-marginal Avhite lines. Other characters 

 separating it from Saclava are the small size and acumi- 

 nated form of the inner-marginal white marking of the 

 forewings, and the entirely-different colouring and pattern 

 of the underside. 



Mr. W. D. Gooch, after whom I have named this 

 species, met with four specimens in the neighbourhood of 

 his plantation (Spring Vale) on the coast of Natal. No 

 other examples have come under my notice ; but it is not 

 unlikely that the butterfly may escape observation from 

 its resemblance to the not imcommon N. Saclava. 



Hab.— 'Natal; Little Umhlanga (W. D. Gooch, 1874, 

 &c.). 



Family ERYCINID^, Swains. 



Sub-family LiBYTHiEiNiE, Bates. 



Genus LiBYTiiEA, Fab. 



Libythea Laius, n. sp. 



Exp. 1 in. 10^ lin.— 2 in. 2 lin. 



$. Dark brown, glossed with bronzy-yellow reflections ; 

 loitli pale fulvous-ochreous bars and spots. Forewing : a 

 longitudinal bar from base occupies lower half of discoidal 

 cell, Avidening gradually to its abrupt extremity just above 

 origin of 1st median nervule ; immediately beyond bar 

 (sometimes touching or even merged in it) a large, roughly- 

 sub-quadrate spot, which is widest interiorly, and anteriorly 

 reaches to end of discoidal cell ; a little beyond and below 

 this spot, a larger paler sub-ovate spot, the upper part of 

 which is traversed by the 2nd median nervule ; on outer 

 portion of inner-margin a very faint pale-ochreous cloud ; 

 an irregular, oblique, sub-apical row of 3 white spots — of 

 which the 1st is neai*est middle, largest, exteriorly elon- 

 gated and crossed in its upper part by the sub-costal 

 nervure — and the others are together apart, of about equal 

 size, one above and the other beh)Av the 2nd radial nervule. 

 Hindwing : costal margin rather broadly dull-whitish from 

 base as far as a quadrate, pale, whitish-ochreous spot about 

 middle, lying between costal nervure and 1st sub-costal 

 nervule ; below and beyond this spot, just above 2nd sub- 

 costal nervule, a small ochrcous spot ; beyond middle, a 



