74 Messrs. J. J. Joicey and G. Talbot on new 



form, having increased black on fore wing and reduced 

 ocelli. 



2 c? c?, 3 ? ? , 3000-4000 feet, Wandammen Mtns., Nov. 



SatyridsB. 



11. Erycinidia maudei, sp. n. 

 (PI. VII. fig. 3.) 



This species is distinct from any other in the genus, but 

 above it resembles wliite forms of Platypthima. 



(J . Upperside. — Fore wing with a median patch of dull 

 silvery white, extending into the cell below vein 2 and 

 forming a spot between 2 and 3, filling angle of vein 3; rest 

 of cell and costa below vein 3 to base greyish brown ; apical 

 half black; a small, square, white costal spot, nearer cell 

 than to apex. 



Hind wing dull silvery white, dark greyish at base and 

 inner margin, as also the tail and margin in cellule 2 ; rest 

 of marginal border black, widest at apex, and between vein 4 

 and end of tail is traversed by two thin white lines ; some 

 greyish scaling at end and base of tail; a small black sub- 

 marginal ocellus in 2, ringed with white and with a white 

 pupil. 



Underside with dark gi'ey ground-colour sparsely scaled 

 with bluish grey. Fore wing with white median triangular 

 patch not entering cell ; a bar across cell to costa between 

 veins 2 and 3, white near the cell, anteriorly paler than 

 ground-colour; white costal spot as above; a bluish-grey 

 submarginal triangular patch extending from costa to a point 

 on vein 2, and including the costal spot at its proximal edge ; 

 in centre of patch a row of four small ocelli in 3-6 ; a sub- 

 marginal dark line. Hind icing with a dark irregular sub- 

 basal line from costa to middle of 1 c, crossing cell before 

 vein 7 and at origin of 2 ; a straight postmedian line from 

 costa to middle of vein 3, then bent shortly inwards and 

 straight to above marginal ocellus, then bent inwards to 

 vein 2 ; distaliy of this line a row of four small ocelli in 3-6, 

 and a larger ocellus near margin in 2 ; apical area grey- 

 brown, with a submarginal narrow band of bluish grey 

 defined by dark grey edges and extending to vein 3 ; tail 

 black. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen smoky black, greyish below. 

 Antennpe dark yellow-brown, lower part of club black on 

 inside. 



$ . Upperside similar. Fore wing with white bar across 

 cell, which is only faintly indicated in S ) costal spot larger. 



