830 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPJDOPTERA [Nov. 17, 



62. ZlZERA GAIKA. 



Lyccena gaika, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 3rd ser. vol. i. 

 p. 403 (1862). 



c? c? , Luvira River, Nyasa to Tanganyika Eoad, August 23rd, 

 1895. 



63. ZlZERA LUCIDA. 



Lycwna lucida, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1883, p. 348. 



c? , Virauli Hill, Nyasa to Tanganyika Eoad, August 22nd ; 

 $ $, Chuona Eiver (Mwewe's town), Unyika, Sept. 15th, 1895; 

 Deep Bay, Feb. llth and 24th, 1896. 



64. PLEBEITJS TROCHILUS. 



Lyccena trochilus, Ereyer, Neuere Beitr. v. pi. 440. fig. 1 (1844). 

 Deep Bay, Eeb. 6th, 14th, and 24th, 1896. 



65. SCOLITANTIDES STELLATA. 



Lyccena stellate^ Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1883, p. 349. 

 Kasungu Mountain, 5400 feet alt., Nyika, March 5th, 1896. 



CTCLTRIUS, gen. nov. 



Nearly allied to Hyrius, but with rounded wings ; the second- 

 aries without tails ; neuration as in Hyreus. Type, Polyommatus 

 tvebbianus. This genus will contain the species P. webbianus 

 and H. cequatorialis, hitherto referred to Hyreus, as well as the 

 following : 



66. CTCLTRIUS JUNO, sp. n. (Plate XLI. fig. 5.) 



Allied to C. webbianus, the male above lilac, bluer at base, with 

 broad cupreous-brown costal and external borders ; fringes white, 

 spotted with brown at the extremities of the nervures ; secondaries 

 with the abdominal area somewhat greyish ; an oval submarginal 

 black ocellus with shining lilac iris on first median interspace, and 

 indications of a second smaller similar ocellus near anal angle on 

 interno-median interspace. Body above black, clothed with silver 

 hair; a silvery-white line on each side of the frons, immediately 

 in front of the eyes ; collar clothed with golden hair : under surface 

 of primaries golden brown, the markings not very distinct, but 

 consisting of two pale-edged, quadrate, slightly darker spots cross- 

 ing the discoidal cell, and a belt of similar character across the disc, 

 its uppermost division with white outer edge and followed by a 

 creamy white diffused subapical spot ; fringe creamy white, spotted 

 with blackish: secondaries white, speckled with blackish at the 

 base and mottled and banded with copper-brown almost exactly in 

 the pattern of G. cequatorialis; a black oval spot, enclosing a metallic 

 green dash, representing the ocellus of the upper surface. Body 

 below densely covered with white hair or scales, the legs brownish 

 above, white below. Female above cupreous brown, with fringe 

 and ocelli as in male; under surface with brown-centred white 

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