166 Mr. W. F. Kirby on a 



probably with white bands ; legs yellowish, thickly clothed ; 

 femora white beneath. 



Taken by Capt. F. D. Lugard in Uganda. 



Most nearly allied to E. atharinus^ Butler, from Abyssinia, 

 but the more uniform colour, the absence of a distinct white 

 patch on the base of the inner margin of the anterior wings 

 above, and the almost obsolete pale line beyond the ocelli 

 above, instead of the broad white one of E. atbarinus, will at 

 once serve to distinguish this species. 



XVII. — Description of a new Species o/"Hirdapa, Moore^ from 

 Dinner Island^ New Guinea, in the Collection of the British 

 Museum. By W. F. KiRBY, F.L.S., F.E.S., Assistant 

 in Zoological Department, British Museum (Natural 



History). 



Hirdapa rezia. 



Exp. S 2|, ?3iV inches. 



Male. — Upperside. Anterior wings dark brown, shading 

 into blackish towards the costa, and inclining to rufous brown 

 towards the base and margins ; from the base a large fawn- 

 coloured blotch spreads over the wing from above the median 

 nearly to the submedian nervure and above and between the 

 two lower median nervules for half their length, the greater 

 part of this outer portion being filled up with whitish. Below 

 the lowest median nervule, and just before its middle, is an 

 oval bluish-grey spot. A row of six violet-blue submarginal 

 spots between the nervure to above the lowest median nervule, 

 the middle ones smallest, the two nearest the costa marked 

 with white. 



Posterior wings dark brown, shading into rufous brown 

 below the cell to the lower part of the hind and iimer margins 

 as far as the anal angle; apex dusted with white; a large 

 buft' costal patch spreading over the upper half of the cell, but 

 not reaching its base or extremity. 



Underside. Anterior \\ ings brown ; only the outer part of 

 the fawn-coloured patch well marked ; it is smaller and paler 

 than above, and ends as a whitish blotch above the lowest 

 median nervure. Below the median nervure, and for half the 

 length below the lowest median nervule, the wing is pale butf, 

 the place of the white sj)ot above being marked bv a narrow 

 black oval outline ; on the inner margin the wing is whiter 

 on both sides of the submedian nervure as far as tlie anal 



