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Four specimens of this remarkable " Skipper " were brought from 

 Damara Land by Mr. John A. Bell. Wallengren notes this species as 

 allied to P. niveus of Cramer, which is easily distinguished from Levubu 

 by its simple, much broader hind-marginal, and narrower costal, edging of 

 forewing, the former only shortly indenting the ground-colour on nervules. 



" Kaffraria (Wahl berg). "Waller. 

 Damara Land (J. A. Bell). Coll. Tri. 



201. Leucochitonea bicolor. 



Leucochitonea bicolor, mihi, N. Sp. 

 Exp. I in. 5 lin. 



$ . Very pale ochreous-yellow, with black margins : fore- 

 wing with large black spots. Fore-wing : costa with a black 

 border, narrowing to apex, where it joins the broad, in- 

 teriorly irregularly-dentate, hind-marginal black band j 

 inner-margin also narrowly bordered with black; close to 

 base, between median and sub-median nervures a large spot j 

 a little beyond it two large spots form an oblique fascia 

 between costal border and sub-median nervure ; a large 

 irregular costal spot or patch between middle and apex 

 reaches second median, and its outermost angle joins hind- 

 marginal border on first median, nervule, leaving an oblique 

 apical band of yellow, crossed by four dark nervulesv 

 Hind-wing : spotless ; inner-margin broadly black-bordered 

 throughout ; a moderately - wide hind - marginal border, 

 broader towards anal angle, radiating on nervules, and 

 emitting a long black rav between third median nervule and 

 sub-median nervure, where it is also marked with two yellow 

 dots. UNDER-SIDE. All of a deeper-yellow, with only 

 very narrow blackish edgings to wings, excepting on inner- 

 margin of hind -wing : where however, the border i 

 narrower, shorter (only reaching anal angle by a thin streak), 

 and enclosing interiorly a yellow stripe. Fore-wing : spot* 

 forming fascia only represented ; spot near base and beyond 

 middle only indicated by some fuscous scales. Cilia blackish 

 above and below, with a few whitish hairs at anal angle of 

 hindwing, 



I have placed this species in Wallengren's genus Leucochitonea, the 

 structural differences it presents from L. Levubu being but blight, and not 

 sufficient to warrant the formation of a new genus. The antennae have a 

 slightly longer club, but otherwise they and the palpi well agree with those 

 of the genus named ; and the hind tibia are tufted with hair. The thorax 

 appears rather more robust, and slightly longer in proportion to the 

 abdomen ; and the anal region of hind- wing is more prominent, In 



