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18.* Libythea Cinyras, sp. nov. ? 
I am unable to reconcile with any figure or description to 
which I have access a Libythea given me by Mr. Colville Barclay. 
Though at first inclined to consider it a variety of L. Myrrha, 
Godt., I find upon examination that the differences it presents 
warrant its being held a distinct species. In the fore-wing there _ 
is no longitudinal stripe from the base, but only a narrow, oblique, 
fulvous spot at the end of the discoidal cell, and a good-sized, 
rounded, fulvous spot (much as in the Indian LZ. Lepita, Moore), 
situated upon the second median nervule, between the oblique 
spot and the hind-margin ; while the three apical spots are fulvous 
. in colour and narrowed and contiguous, forming an oblique angu- 
lated streak. The hind-wing presents a rather broad irregular 
fulvous sub-marginal band, commencing narrowly and abruptly 
below the first sub-costal, and elbowed just below the second sub- 
costal nervule; and an additional quadrate fulvous spot on the 
costa beyond the middle. On the wnderside the spots of the fore- 
wing are paler, that at the end of the cell being much larger than 
above, while those near the apex (which is irrorated-grey) are 
almost whitish; in the discoidal cell there is some faint fulvous 
colouring before the spot. The hind-mwing is universally grey, 
with brown hatchings; there is not any dark stripe along the 
cellular fold, and the spot and band of the upper surface are indi- 
cated by paler spaces. 
A specimen in the South African Museum, captured by Mr. 
E. L. Layard in Madagascar, does not differ from that just de- 
scribed ; and, to the best of my recollection, a Libythea, shown me 
by Mr. Waller, of the Zambesi Mission, which was taken near 
the River Shire, presented the same characters. Mr. Layard’s 
specimen possesses palpi and antennz, both of which are more 
slender than those of Z. Myrrha, the former being also shorter 
and convergent. 
If this species be undescribed, I propose for it the name of 
Libythea Cinyras. 
Mr. Barclay informed me that this butterfly is very scarce in 
Mauritius, and that the specimen he gave me was taken in the 
Moka district. 
19. Lycena Betica, Linn. 
This species, so very widely distributed in the Old World, was 
not so common in Mauritius as I had expected to find it, being 
