some new species of Diurnal Zejridoptera. 255 



nervule is black, tipped with white, that on the submedian nervures 

 being orange tipped witli black. Under-side : Both wings pale yellow 

 with dark orange red-bordered bands, which incline to rounded 

 spots, thickly lined interiorly with metallic scales. At the base of 

 the fore-wing is a bright orange costal dash. There is a marginal 

 narrow red line and two submarginal more prominent red lines to 

 both wings. 



A rather large marginal black spot at the anal angle below the 

 submedian nervule and a smaller one crowned with metallic scales 

 in the submedian interspace. Head dark orange without any 

 black markings. Thorax and abdomen blackish above, pale yellow 

 below ; abdomen ringed with whitish. 



Legs pale yellow; palpi pale yellow below, darker above with 

 black tips. 



Expanse 1 /',, inch. 



Hah. North-west Rhodesia, January 1903. 



A very beautiful and distinct species, not nearly allied 

 to any that I can find described, but perhaps nearest to S. 

 hiimcyeri* Devvitz. Mr. Cookson sent four specimens, 

 all females.f 



Erikssonia coolcsoni, sp. nov. (Plate XIII, tig. 4.) 



<$ . Allied to Erikssoma acrseina, Trimen. j Upper-side uniform 

 reddish-brown. Primaries with the costa (except at the base, which 

 is reddish-brown) increasingly broadly black for about three-fourths 

 its length when it becomes suddenly narrow and joins the broad evenly 

 black outer margin. An elongate black spotat the end of the cell. Cilia 

 deep black. Secondaries with a gradually increasing outer marginal 

 .black band, commencing beyond the middle of the costa and be- 

 coming narrow and broken about the region of the median nervure, 



* Spindasis homeyeri, Dewitz, D. E. Z., 30, p. 429, t. 2, f. 5, 5a, 

 5b, 5c. 



f Since the above description was written, Professor Poulton has 

 sent me for examination a g captured at Rabai, 14 miles N.W. of 

 Mombasa on June 18th, 1903, by Rev. K. S'Aubyn Rogers, ami 

 presented by him to the Oxford Museum. It differs from the $ on 

 the upper-side by the orange bands on the primaries being narrower 

 and rather less conspicuous and by the hind-wing being suffused 

 with rich purple from the subcostal to the submedian nervure ; in 

 this respect somewhat resembling sp hula sin uatalensis, Westw., which 

 has the inner margin of the fore-wing also broadly suffused. On the 

 under-side it is identical with the ? • 



+ Erikssonia acrseina, Trimen, P. Z. S., 1891, p. 92, PL IX, f. 18, 

 19, 20. 



