124 Mr. A. G. Butler on Butterflies. 



Genus Philognoma, Westwood. 

 Philognonia Ussheri, n. sp. 



c?. Wings above, jet black; the base tinted witli 

 brown : front-wings with a nearly straight silky-white 

 central transverse band, tinted below the median nervure 

 with golden: hind-wings, except at the base and apex, 

 bright fulvous, with black violet-pupilled ocelli, as in 

 P. Decius, but smaller. 



Wings below, nearly as in P. Decius, but more richly 

 coloured, the central white band narrower, and much 

 more regular; the subapical pink streak wanting in the 

 hind- wings, the ocelli larger, and more clearly encircled 

 with a black lunate streak at the anal angle. 



Expanse of wings, 3 inches, 1 line. 



Hah. — Gold Coast. Coll. Swanzy. 



A beautiful novelty, allied to P. Deems of Fabricius. 



Genus Mycalesis, Hiibner. 



Mycalesis ignohiUs, n. sp. 



? . Wings above, dusky-brown : the front- wings with 

 two obsolete ocelli, as in M. Eusirus, a distinct oblique 

 subapical white band, somewhat in the form of the figure 

 8; the apical and costal margins pale; a fine undulate 

 submarginal line: hind- wings paler upon the outer 

 margin, and A\'ith a dark submarginal waved line. 



Wings below, dusky-brown, with three oblique pinky- 

 white bands ; margin brownish- white, enclosing a waved 

 black line : front-Avings with the white band of the upper 

 surface broken up, uniting with the pale central band 

 upon the costa, and forming part of the zones to the 

 ocelli; two large ocelli, as in M. Minetis, Gotama, and 

 others : hind- wings with two very large ocelli, one apical, 

 and the other (which is the larger) sub-anal, also two 

 small submarginal ocelli near the apex, and three at the 

 anal angle. 



Expanse of wings, 1 inch, 10 lines. 



Hah. — Gold Coast. Coll. Swanzy. 



Allied to M. Xeneas and Eusirus. 



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