THE ANNALS 



AXD 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY, 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 

 No. 12. DECEMBER 1908. 



LXI. — Descriptions of new Rhopalocera from the Upper 

 Congo. By G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Mycalesis hyperanthus, sp. n. 



S . Both wings dark blackish brown. Primaries with a 

 small white-pupilled black spot between veins 5 and 6 near 

 the termen ; an obscure, small, but quite visible black spot 

 (not pupilled) between veins 2 and 3, neither of these spots 

 have any iris : secondaries with a dark grey sex dash close 

 to the anal angle. Underside : both wings sienna-brown, 

 with ocellated spots and with lines : primaries with a large 

 dark spot in the middle of the cell, broadly edged all round 

 except on the costa with pale ochreous brown, beyond which 

 is a very broad, irregular, median dark band produced out- 

 wards between veins 3 and 5, and palely edged externally; 

 spots of upperside showing through, but broadly ringed with 

 pale yellowish which has a dark edging followed by a lighter 

 one ; the lower spot is very large and conspicuous and is 

 pupilled with white ; a dark fine subterminal line in a paler 

 area : secondaries with the dark median irregular band 

 similar to the primaries, palely edged laterally, but very 

 definitely so externally ; a postmedial series of seven spots as 

 in the primaries in a pale area, that between veins 2 and 3 

 being large and that at the apex also somewhat larger than 

 Ann. & May. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. ii. 34 



