some new species of Diurnal Lepidoptera. 259 



hind-wing, placed between .the two lower median nervules. Cilia 

 white, indistinctly darker at the extremities of the nervules. Under- 

 side : ground colour of both wings pure white with broad blotches. 

 Primaries ; a large quadrate blotch at the end of the cell ; costal margin 

 pale brown ; an ultra-median brown band composed of confluent 

 quadrate spots, semi-circular in form, reaching from the subcostal 

 nervure, where it is widest, to lower median interspace where it is 

 narrowed ; beyond this a rather narrow brown band of confluent 

 inter-nervular patches, followed by a somewhat paler and narrower 

 brown band reaching only to the lower median nervules, and beyond 

 this a clearly denned, narrow, marginal line. Cilia white ; dusky at 

 the ends of the nervules. Secondaries : costal margin pale brown ; 

 two large black spots close to the margin, one about the middle, one 

 half-way between this and the base ; a triangular black spot at the 

 base of the cell, and two more along the anal margin ; a large irregular 

 dark brown blotch, with several smaller blotches more or less 

 attached to it, occupying the central area, and a double submarginal 

 brown band more inclined to become fused towards the anal angle. 

 Close to the margin between the lower median nervules is a large 

 oval orange spot centered by a black spot which is crowned exteriorly 

 by rich metallic-blue scales. In the submedian interspace, close to 

 the submedian nervure is an orange streak bordered on either side 

 by a small black spot ; cilia white, brownish at the extremities of 

 the nervules. 



Head, thorax and abdomen brownish-grey above, white beneath. 

 Legs white ; palpi white, with black tips. Antenna? black, white 

 ringed. 



A short linear brown tail on the lower median nervule. 



$ . Upper-side paler and brighter blue than $ , fore-wing with 

 apex and outer margin broadly pale brown ; hind-wing with an 

 ultramedian, semicircular, irregular whitish band. Under-side : the 

 white areas more extensive than in g , causing the brown blotches to 

 appear more distinct ; the costal margin and the basal area are more 

 broadly pale brown and the black spots appear white ringed. 



Expanse g liV inch, <j? lyxr inch. 



Hob. North-west Rhodesia, November 1903. 

 Not very closely allied to any species that I can find 

 described. 



Gatochrysops shotios, sp. nov. (Plate XIII, fig. 12.) 



£ . Upper-side uniform dark olivaceus-brown, primaries with a 

 darker streak at the end of the cell. Cilia slightly paler brown. 

 Underside : ground colour olivaceus-brown, but slightly paler than 



