352 Mr. B. Trimen's descriptions oj new 



ochreous-brown, finely edged, internally and externally, 

 with blackish ; close to hind margin a row of very 

 distinct sublunulate black spots. Fore wing : A longi- 

 tudinal brown stripe from base (where it is almost black) 

 along subcostal nervure to a little before and above 

 extremity of discoidal cell ; three small ochreous-brown 

 spots near base (one in cell) ; discal row of spots abruptly 

 interrupted on 2nd median nervule; costa from before 

 middle to apex edged with blackish. Hind wing : Curve 

 of costal edge close to base black ; an irregular basal 

 marking composed of three or four contiguous small 

 ochreous-brown spots ; subbasal row of three spots much 

 as in fore wing ; an additional spot on inner margin 

 near base ; discal row abruptly interrupted on 2nd sub- 

 costal nervule, and thence angulated in almost a direct 

 line to about middle of inner margin ; the 7th (and very 

 slightly the 8th) black spot of hind-marginal row dotted 

 with silvery blue. 



2 . Only the basal and inner-marginal area of both 

 wings, and the hind-marginal region of hind wing, lila- 

 cine-blue, the disc being white in both ; terminal disco- 

 cellular spot and irregular discal row as on under side, 

 but black and strongly marked ; row of violaceous- 

 whitish lunules internally edging hind-marginal blackish 

 spots more conspicuous than in male in hind wing, and 

 also indistinctly marked in fore wing. Under side : As 

 in male, but all the spots somewhat sharper and clearer 

 in outline. 



This interesting species is in the male distinguishable 

 from L. Thespis, by (1) the much less vivid more 

 lilacine-blue, and (2) much wider hind-marginal blackish 

 border of the upper side ; and in the female by (3) the 

 much more developed discal white (especially in the hind 

 wing) and hind-marginal lunulate markings. On the 

 under side both sexes display (4) a whiter ground, (5) 

 smaller and more clearly-defined markings, and (6) 

 much more conspicuous and black spots of hind-mar- 

 ginal row. The tail of the hind wing is in both sexes 

 longer than in L. Thespis ; and in this character, as well 

 as in those of the under side just noted, L. Bowkeri 

 exhibits indications of alliance with such congeners as 

 L. Sybaris, Hopff., and L. Hintza, Trim. 



Colonel Bowker, to whom I dedicate this species, 

 captured four examples early in the year 1881, on the 



