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double transverse bar of dark lines edged externally and internally with 

 pale gray, followed by a submarginal series of similar markings extending 

 from the costa to the inner margin and dislocated at the third median and 

 first median nervules. This series of spots is succeeded by a very obscure 

 marginal band of subhastate dark markings. The posterior wing has a 

 double bar at the end of the cell, and a series of submarginal markings 

 parallel to the border very much as in the anterior. The submarginal 

 band is followed by a double series of pale gray lunulate markings, which 

 are interrupted beyond the first median by a very large black ocellus,, 

 which is margined with red, and has the black pupil irrorated with me- 

 tallic-blue scales. A similar ocellus smaller in size, is located at the anal 

 angle. The underside of the abdomen is yellow; the remainder of the 

 under surface of th^ body is concolorous. 



9 ■ — The female has the upper surface blackish with pale gray markings 

 disposed in bands upon the outer border of the secondaries; the underside 

 is marked as in the male. Expanse 28-30 mrrt. 



Hab. — Gaboon. 



This species, which is very closely allied to L. ligures Hew-. , 

 may be distinguished by the fact that it has not any markings at 

 the base of the secondaries. In ligures there is a double bar orv 

 the costa near the base and a profusion of pale strife on the outer 

 half of the secondaries. The ground color in L. .musagetes is 

 blackish; in L. ligures it is a reddish brown. Mr. W. H. Druce, 

 to whom I communicated one of my types, agrees with me as to 

 its specific value. The two species are undoubtedly mixed in 

 collections, but I find in a series of about thirty specimens of each 

 species before me that the markings are constant. 



8. L. scintillnla Holl. ? . — The female of this species, of which 1 have 

 recently received a single example, differs from the male upon the upper- 

 side in having the bright orange-red color restricted to a large patch cov- 

 ering the limbal area about the middle of the wing upon both primaries 

 and secondaries, the costa and inner margins of which are "broadly black. 



9. L. erythropoecilns sp. nov. (^. — Allied to L. lusones Hew. Upper- 

 side: The base, the costa, the apex and outer margin, are broadly black. 

 The limbal area \s marked by a large suboval red spot indented at the 

 end of the cell by a black tooth-like projection. The secondaries have 

 the costa, the inner and outer margins likewise broadly black, enclosing 

 a large subtriangular red mark upon the middle of the wing. The outer 

 margin is interrupted by a series of red spots, of which the two between 

 the median nervules are subhastate and pupiled with triangular spots of 

 black. There is a marginal whitish line; the fringes are black. Under- 

 side: The underside is cream-colored, barred with red and black lines. 

 The most conspicuous of these lines upon the primaries are a double 

 curved transverse line beyond the cell extending from the costa to the 



