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692, Chaerocina dohertyi (VI VI. f. 5, <?). 



(J?. Head and thorax above green-brown, changing into tawny-olivc on 

 abdomen ; a cream;- wliite lateral stripe on head and thorax ; a stripe on first 

 segment of paljms, and njiperside of legs creamy white ; sealing of antenna creamy 

 bnft' ; breast orange-rnfons, abdomen below ferruginous. 



Wings, a/iori\ Forewing greyish olive-green, darkest at base, on disc 



be)'ondend of cell, and between discal line and anal angle ; a creamy streak at inner 

 margin between base and middle ; a black line beginning at costal margin close to 

 apex and ending at apical third of inner margin, bordered pale proximally ; traces 

 of two antemedian lines and of a line from stigma to inner margin ; stigma an 



olive-black circle ; distal margin concave in front, then convex ; apex acute. 



Hindwing geranium-pink, basal area black to apex of cell ; a black postdiscal band, 

 shading oft'distally, not reaching anal angle, connected along SM- with basal area; 

 marginal area less bright pink. 



Underside ferruginous, speckled with olive. Forewing : basal area red, a 



broad black basal stripe behind ; two olive discal lines, parallel, somewhat S-shaped, 

 curving costad in front, sometimes vestigial ; a broad greyish brown border, not 

 very conspicuous, widest behind R- where it reaches distal discal line. Hind- 

 wing : not quite so bright as forewing ; abdominal area pink, a somewhat S-sliaped 

 discal line corresponding to the second line of the forewing. 



J. Sexual armature of the usual type of the allied genera. Tenth tergite ; first 

 slightly, in apical third more suddenly narrowed, tip rounded, feebly sinuate ; 

 sternite rather flat beneath, apex truncate with the angles strongly rounded. 

 Clasper with a great number of rather large friction-scales ; process of harps 

 slender, horizontal, extreme end curved upwards. Penis-sheath with a right and 

 left process, asymmetrical, the left process flat and somewhat twisted, the right one 

 slightly curved, projecting, with some teeth at proximal edge. 



Length of forewing : c? 44 — 48 mm. ; ? 49 mm. 



Early stages not known. 



Hull. Kikuyu Escarpment, British East Africa, (3500 — Oomi ft., January and 

 March 1901 (W. Doherty). 



Twelve Jc?, one ? in the Tring Museum. 



One of the finest discoveries of our late friend in this famiiv. 



(!LIX. EUdllLORON.— Typus : mrf/r,eni. 



SplihiT. Linn('>, .S'//^■^ Niil. ed. x. p. 489 (1758) (partim ; type : ncellittii). 

 DeUpphihi, Boisduval {iioi Laspeyres, 1809), Fdinie Madaij. Buurb. p. 73 (18153). 

 Chiiei-iiniiiijia, id. {mm Duponchel, 18.%), in Deleg., Vnt/, Afr. Aiislr. p. 59(1 (1847). 

 Philuiiqielits, Walker [iii„i Harris, 1839), List Lei>. Ins. Jl. .1/. viii. p. 179 (1856). 

 Chhn-imi Guenue {mm Desv., 1830), in Maill., lie Riunhm p. .S2 (ISO'i). 

 Eurhhriin Boisduval, 8y<ft. Gin. Lep. Hit. i. p. 213 (1875) (type : ineyiiera). 



J ? . Second segments of jialpi divergent, touching one another only 

 jiroximally, where their ventral scaling is long and tuft-like ; outer side of palpns 

 simple, joint not open, no cavity at end of first segment ; inner surface of second 

 segment not naked, being clothed with thin and rounded scales, which, however, do 



