On new M i in acrajas /"/•(;»{ Tropical Africa. G'V5 



LXIX. — Descriptions of Two new ^Iimacra;as/ro;?i Tropical 

 Africa. V>\ Hamilton' H. Dkuck, F.L.S. &c. 



Fam. LycaenidaB. 

 ^limacrcea eltrinijhanii, sp. n. 



c? . U()perside : fore wing dark brown, witli a broad central 

 orange band extending from tiie costa to the dorsum, angleil 

 at vein 4. Hind wing reddish orange, darkest towards the 

 terminal brown border; base brown, a linear mark closing 

 end of cell ; a large pure white dorsal patch extending in- 

 wards to vein 3. Underside : fore wing as above, but paler 

 and with brown radiating lines at the apex. Hind wing : 

 basal third dark red, dusted with black scales and supporting- 

 a number of irregular black spots; beyond this, wMth its 

 inner edge clearly deiined, is a wliitish central band, whiter 

 towards tiie dorsum, covered by radiating brown lines between 

 the veins, and reaching almost to the terraen, which is 

 broadly brown. Thorax dark brown ; head black, with 

 some white spots ; palpi black ; antennaj black, with minute 

 white spots ; legs black, with white spots. Abdomen brown 

 above, orange below, with black spots. 



? . Upperside dark smoky brown ; fore wing with a 

 broad orange band as in c?; hind wing with a pure white 

 median band, reaching from the costa to the dorsum, and 

 witli its inner edge more clearly defined than its outer edge ; 

 a linear mark closing the cell. Underside as in (^ , but 

 generally greyer, and with the white band of the hind wing- 

 more clearly defined. 



Expanse, ^ 56, ? 64 mm. 



TIab. Bugoma Forest, Unyovo, Uganda, B. C. Attica 

 (S. A.^''eave, 3. xii. 1911). 



Types : Biitisli Museum. 



The female described above is almost exactly like the 

 female Planema poggei, Dewitz, in coloration on botji sur- 

 faces, but the orange and white on the upperside of the hind 

 wing of the male is a type of coloration which I do not find 

 on any of the plates of mimetic associations given by 

 Mr. Eltringham in his interesting ' African Mimetic 

 Butterflies.-" 



Coloured drawings of both sexes have been prepared by 

 Mr. Horace Knight, and will be published shortly on a plate 

 in the ' Entomologist^s Monthly Magazine.' 



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