Lepidoptera from Abyssinia. 481 



Mycahsis pavonisj n. sp. 



Allied to M. xeneas. Uppersicle as in the preceding species : 

 wings below paler, crossed by two very irregular parallel 

 central dark brown lines ; several dark brown abbreviated 

 lines across the cell, and the discocellulars, dark brown ; outer 

 border very pale, intei-sected by a dark brown submarginal 

 line ; marginal line black : primaries with two conspicuous 

 black ocelli with white pupils, pale yellow irides bordered 

 with brown, and whitish zones : secondaries with six ocelli ; 

 the first and fourth large, the second and third, and the fifth 

 and sixth, contiguous and nearer to the outer border, all black, 

 with white pupils, pale yellow irides bordered with brown, 

 and concurrent whitish zones. Expanse of wings 2 inches 

 1 line. 



Not rare. 



The dark transverse lines on the basal area are sometimes 

 obsolete. 



Mycalesis milyas^ Hewitson. 



Yjpthima simplicia, n. sp. 



Wings above greyish brown ; primaries with a subapical 

 ocellus, black, with two lilacine pupils and a pale yellow iris, 

 encircled at some distance by a dark brown line ; secondaries 

 with a smaller subanal black ocellus (obsolete in the male), 

 with a single bluish pupil and pale yellow iris : wings below 

 pale grey, transversely reticulated with brown ; primaries with 

 ocellus as above, but the pupils steel-blue, and the iris paler 

 and broader ; a diffused brown zone at some distance from it ; 

 secondaries with two smaller unipupillated ocelli, one subapical, 

 the other subanal. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4-5 lines. 



Common. 



Ny2iphalin^j Bates. 

 Charaxes epigasius^ Reiche. 



Char axes jocaste^ Butler. 



Common. 

 Common. 



Charaxes viola ^ , Butler. 



Rare, The male is very like that sex of C. ethalion and 

 C. etheodesj but has red elongated spots on the outer border 

 above, and the band of secondaries below relieved by a paler 

 backjrround. 



