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XIV. Descriptions of some new species of Diurnal Lepido- 

 ptera, collected by Mr. Harold Goohson, in Northern 

 Rhodesia, in 1903 and 1904. By Herbert 

 Druce, F.L.S. Lycsenidae and Hesperiidoe, by 

 Hamilton H. Druce, F.Z.S. 



[Read March 1st, 1905.] 



Plate XII i. 



The collection contains a large number of species, the most 

 interesting being Planema poggei, Precis touhilimasa, Crenis 

 rosa $ and £, Pseudacrsea poggei, Euryphene plistonax, 

 Euryphene Is&titia ^and %, Crenidomema concordia $ and £, 

 Ckaraxes mdcclounii $ and £, Teracolus regina, Papilio 

 ridleyanus, Papilio toboranus. 



We have described 11 as now species, leaving several 

 others, of which only one specimen has been sent, for future 

 determination. 



Family SATYBIDJE. 



Mycalesis coohsoni, sp. nov. (Plate XIII, fig. 1.) 



£ . Upper-side. Primaries and secondaries dark brown, the 

 fringes of both wings lighter brown. Primaries with a small in- 

 distinct apical ocellus, a large black ocellus near the anal angle with 

 a small white dot in the middle, a short oblique cream-coloured band 

 crosses the wing from the costal margin to the upper-side of the 

 black ocellus. 



Under-side. Primaries greyish-brown crossed beyond the middle 

 by a narrow yellow curved Hue, the cream-coloured band as above but 

 smaller, the ocellus more distinct, two fine yellow lines close to the 

 base. Secondaries greyish-brown mottled with darker brown, a 

 blackish-brown line crosses the middle of the wing from near the 

 apex to the inner margin above the anal angle, a submarginal row 

 of minute black dots extending from near the apex to the anal angle, 

 those near the anal angle the largest. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Red). North-west Rhodesia. 



This species is allied to Mycalesis sciathis, Hew., from 

 Old Calabar, and M. selousi, Butl. 



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