80 Mr. Hamilton H. Druce’s Descriptions 
Type, Mus. Hope, Oxford. 
Hab. S.E. Ruopesia: Melsetter, Gazaland. 
Captured on Mount Chirinda, about 4,000 ft, im the 
forest, October 17th, by Mr. Guy Marshall, and presented 
by him to the museum. 
Spindasis menelas, sp. nov. (Plate II, fig. 5.) 
2. Upper-side orange-yellow, with the base, costa, and outer 
margin of fore-wing, the base, costal, outer and anal margins of hind- 
wing dark brown. Fore-wing: the whole of the cell is dark brown 
excepting a small orange spot near the end. On the disc of the wing 
are two patches consisting apparently of two confluent brown spots 
placed one towards the apex, one about the middle. Hind-wing: 
two brown bars running from the costal border evenly and regularly 
into the orange area. 
Under-side : ground-colour very pale yellow with rather broad 
and short silver bands and spots edged with black ; a fine anteciliary 
black line common to both wings followed by a narrow submarginal 
line and beyond that a broader black line which is silvery towards 
the apex of the fore-wing and wholly silvery in the hind-wing. 
The tails, which are long, are dark orange along their basal halves 
on both surfaces, the outer portions being black and the tips white. 
The cilia on both surfaces are shining fuscous, those on the fore- 
wing being darkest. Head and thorax dark brown with two white 
streaks between the eyes. Abdomen brown above, pale-yellowish at 
each segment ; yellow below. 
Palpi pale yellow. 
Expanse 13 inch. 
Type, Mus. Druce. 
Hab. N. NicEr1A: Afikpo (Reddick). 
This species appears to be allied to S. 7za, Hew.,* and 
S. crustaria, Holland.+ 
Hewitson described and figured a 2, not a 2, as stated. 
The upper surface of the ¢ is shot with opalescent blue. 
Stugeta maria, (Plate II, fig. 6.) 
Stugeta maria, Suffert. Deutch. Ent. Zeit. “Iris,” xvi, 
p. 60, 1904. 
I have figured a 2 from the Bihe district, Angola. 
* Aphnexus iza, Hew., Ill. Diur. Lep. Lye. p. 62, Pl. XXV, fig. 5 
(1865). 
+ Aphneus crustaria, Holland, Psyche 5, p. 430 (1890). 
