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partly in it, over the disk to the inner margin. Posterior 

 wings slaty grey, with two large round black spots towards 

 the anal angle near the margin, and a black spot partially 

 covered with metallic blue scales and crowned with pale 

 yellow in the lobe ; margin narrowly black, with a narrow 

 white line inside it ; cilia white. 



Underside whiter than in the male, with all the spots and 

 lines, except towards the anal angle of posterior wings, more 

 or less tinted with red ; the outer black anal spot on posterior 

 wings is broadly crowned with yellow, the inner black spot 

 is obsolete and represented by a cluster of metallic blue scales. 



Expanse of wings, <$ 1|-, $ 1 \ inch. 



Nearest to D. dariaves. Mons. Grandidier has figured a 

 species called batikelij Boisd., but his figure does not quite 

 agree with the female above described, and as Mons. Mabille 

 states that the female of his butterfly to a great extent 

 resembles the male, and there can be no doubt that the two 

 insects described by me are sexes of the same species, I 

 venture to consider them distinct from Boisduval's species. 



Cyclopides amena. 



Upperside. Anterior wings dark brown, with a large 

 yellow patch extending above and over the whole of the cell, 

 except a small space at the base, extending also a little 

 beyond and below the cell as far as the lowest median 

 nervule ; a yellow subcostal bar beyond the cell and a small 

 yellow spot below it nearer the outer margin. Posterior 

 wings yellow, except the space along the costal margin as far 

 as the first subcostal nervule. 



Underside as above, except that the whole of the apex of 

 the anterior wings is broadly yellow, the two yellow sub- 

 apical spots being merged in the yellow area, but indistinctly 

 seen ; a narrow black outer margin. The posterior wings 

 all yellow, irrorated with black along the costal margin. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



Near to C. pardalinus, Butl. 



Tagiades samborana. 



Male. — Upperside. Both wings pale ashy brown; anterior 

 wings with a cluster of three vitreous spots in the middle 

 of the wings, two small above, the other, twice their size and 

 triangular, below the middle median nervule ; a transverse 

 dusky brown bar from the middle of the costa to nearly 

 as far as the median nervure ; a narrower bar of the same 

 colour extends from the apex of the lower triangular spot, in 



