( 328 ) 



first lilack, wliite-im])illei], eucirded with orange, between R- and 11^ spot W — M' 

 black, vestigial, mostlj' abseut, spot M' — M- black, distinct, mostly witli wliite or 

 bluisli centre, two dots M- — 8M- blnisli wliite, often absent ; tail narrowly tipped 

 with buff; fringe beiiind tail brown, not orange ; a small white patch at abdominal 

 margin near anal angle ; abdominal iirea olivaceous. 



I'lulcrtiide of both wings olivaceons walnut-brown in basal area, olivaceous 



mummy-brown in distal area. Forewing : four black lines in cell, first and third 



externally, second and fourth internally bordered witli glossy plumbaginous wliite, 

 a costal dot representing a prolongation of the second line is situated between first 

 and second or nearer first ; a straight white band from costal to inner margin 

 as above, bordered proximally by a wliite line, and distally sharply limited by a 

 broad brown-black band, which is ill-defined distally ; between white band and 

 olive distal marginal area the wing is densely striated with black ; from H' back- 

 wards there is a row of black submarginal transverse bars, often indistinct, bar 



R- — R^ anguliform.- Hindwiug similar to forewing, the black striation occnjiying 



also the greater part of the abdominal area ; an anterior series of three bars from 

 tip of praecostal spur to M, bordered with plnmbaginons white proximally ; white 

 band shaded with cream-colonr, narrowing jmsteriorly, reaching abdominal margin, 

 but including posteriorly black striae, proximally bordered by a black line, which 

 itself is more or less jdumbagitious at distal side, the band not sharply limited 

 distally, the brown-black band of the forewing being at the highest vestigial l)etween 

 SC- and E' ; a complete row of orange submarginal spots, all pupilled with bluish 

 white, except spot R^ — M', the pupil encircled with black (or partly), the black 

 ring conspicuous in spot M' — M^ ; the submarginal spots proximally bordered by 

 plumbaginous half'moons, which, between R- and anal angle, are connected with 

 a pluuibaginous marginal line, and tiiere are traces of white halfmooiis underneath 

 the plumbaginous ones, the white halfraoon M' — M- alone being distinct ; tail 

 olivaceous orange, tijiped with buff ; striated areas of both wings shaded with 

 glossy plumbaginous. 



?. Similar to the i, duller in colour, the underside paler, the wings 

 somewhat wider. 



y^^mgf., nppcrside : forewing witli more or less faint traces of pale postdiscal 

 spots, corresjionding to the postdiscal macular band of this sex of the other species 

 oi' Pa N a : liindwing with a larger abdominal subanal white patch than in c?, and 

 a much longer white median baud, the black sulimarginal spots R^ — M- also larger, 

 and there are traces of three submarginal orange sjiots between C and R^ 



Undersifle again as in tj, but the black submarginal spots larger, and the 

 white halfmoons proximally of tliem nearly all distinct. 



Early stages not known. 



Hab. Sierra Leone to the Congo. 



In the Tring Museum 9 (Jd", 3 ? ? from: Sierra Leone (Mitford) ; Old Clalabar; 

 Cameroons; Stanley Pool to Lokolele (Harrison); Lokolele, Congo; Kassai Country. 



2. Palla ussheri. 



NymphalUdecius, Oodart {nnn Cramer, 1777), Eiie. Melh. ix. p. .3fi,S. ii. 40) (1823) (partim, ^) ; 



Luca«, Up. Eml. p. 122. t. 64. f. 2 (cJ) (lS.3.f)) (Guinea) ; id., in Chenu, Rw: Hint. Nat., Pap. 



i. t. 26. f. 4. ((?)(1H.12). 

 FhilogtmiiM (levins, Doul>lcday, Westw. & Hew., Gni. Diiirii. Lep. ii. p. 311. n. 1 (1850) (partim). 

 Phihiriiioma ussheri Butler, Trans. Ent. Stir. Loud. p. 124 (1870) (Asliiuiti) ; id., Lcp. E.rol.\h 52. 



t'. 21. f. .3 ((J) (1871) ; Sharpe, Proc, Zool. Soc. Land. p. 341. n. 48 (18'J4) (Uganda, 4000 ft.). 



