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6. E. BHNITENSIS. sp. IIOV. 



Tlie costal margin of the primaries of this 

 small and well marked species is verj strongly 

 arched and the apex is more acute than in 

 any other species of which the writer has 

 knowledge. The color of the upperside of 

 the anterior wings is black, ornamented with 

 bhie spots, of which one, very small, is situ- 

 ated on the middle of the cell, and another 

 of the same size, just beyond the cell ; while 

 five are disposed in the form of a transverse 

 submarginal series which is interrupted be- 

 tween the second and third median nervules, 

 and in which the spots increase in size toward 

 the posterior margin. The base of the wing 

 and the costa are powdered with a few scat- 

 tering blue scales. The posterior wing is 

 morpho-blue with the anterior and outer 

 margins and the median nerve and nervules 

 broadly black. The inner margin is gray. 

 The prevalent color of the under surface of 

 both vving.s is a dark wood brown. The dis- 

 cal area of the primaries is suf^'used with 

 blackish. The spots of the upper side re- 

 appear upon the under side as very faint 

 bluish gray markings, the edges of which 

 are rather sharper than upon the upper side. 

 There is in addition a faint marginal band of 

 lunules. The secondaries are ornamented 

 with a similar faint marginal and submar- 

 ginal band of lunules, and with three or four 

 spots about the end of the cell. Head, tho- 

 rax, and abdomen concolorous. Expanse of 

 wings 30 mm. 



Type ^ in collection of the writer. 

 7. E. UMRRATIL1.S, sp. nov. 



Allied to B. tnargmata^ Kirby, but 

 differing from this species in being of a 

 paler blue upon the upper surface, and 

 by not having the margin of the wings 

 denticulated and the denticulations dust- 

 ed with white. Upon the under side 



there are also marked differences. The 

 general ground color is as in Kirhy's 

 species, but the irregular zig-zag mark- 

 ings are more numerous and more 

 sharply defined than in E. marginata^ 

 and are disposed in well-marked trans- 

 verse series giving the wing a somewhat 

 banded appearance. 



Phvtai.a, Westw. 



8. P. ELAis, Doub, Ylew . Eemale . 



The female of this interesting species, 

 so far as I am at present aware, has not 

 hitherto been described. I have a spec- 

 imen taken I'tt coitti with a t3'pical male. 

 It is uniformly brown upon the upper 

 side except upon the apical half of the 

 primaries where the brown shades grad- 

 ually shade into deep velvety black, 

 which is interrupted beyond the end of 

 the cell by a broad subapical band of yel- 

 low which extends from the costa to the 

 third median nervule, and is constricted 

 at the upper radiid. The under side is 

 not materially different in markings 

 from the male, except that the yellow 

 band faintly re-appears, and the general 

 tone of the markings is lighter. Ex- 

 panse of wings, 67 mm. The example 

 was taken upon 5th Jan., 1887, at 

 Kangwe. 



PSEUDERESIA, Butl. 

 9. P. O-RUBRUM sp. nov. 



This species is closely allied to P. 

 Catalina, Kirby and Smith, but differs 



