290 Mr. A. G. Butler on a Collection of 



spots on the median interspaces, followed by white- edged 

 crescents of the ground-colour : secondaries with a black 

 discocellular line ; a longitudinal fusiform black spot above 

 the cell, followed by three black dots, a fusiform spot in the 

 cell, and one or two small spots on the space between the first 

 and second subcostal branches, all white-edged ; outer border 

 marked with whitish orange and green-speckled black dots as 

 in the preceding species. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 

 " Found in grass. Fianarantsoa." 



Lyc^na, Fabricius. 



29. Lyccena hnysna. 

 I/yccma Jcnysma, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. i. p. 282 (1862). 

 Fianarantsoa. 



30. Lyccena atrigemmata^ n. sp. 



Wings above bright lavender-blue, with rather narrow 

 dark brown borders ; fringes whitish flecked with brown : 

 secondaries with an ill-defined series of submarginal brown 

 dots : body blackish ; antennse white, with brown annulations 

 above. Wings below pale greyish brown, with a double mar- 

 ginal series of white-bordered dusky spots, the sixth and 

 eighth of the external row on the secondaries with black 

 centres ; the inner row lunate : primaries with two subcostal 

 dots at the middle of the wing, a large round spot in the cell, 

 a second closing the cell, and four (the lowermost one small) 

 beyond the cell in a transverse series, black with white bor- 

 ders : secondaries with a small spot at the base, a lunule 

 closing the cell, and an annular series of eleven spots sur- 

 rounding it black, bordered with white : body below whitish. 

 Expanse of wings 9 lines. 



" Found amongst grass. Fianarantsoa." 



Fapilionidse. 



PiEsiN^^ Bates. 



Mylothris, Hubner. 



3 1 . Mylothris jpliileris. 



Pierts phileris, Boisduval, Faun. Madag. p. 17. n. 2. pi. 2. figs, 3, 4 

 (1833). 



" Very common. Fianarantsoa." 



