new Species of Lycenide. 291 
Chilades Alberta, sp. n. 
Catochrysops cyclopteris, Butler, P. Z. 8. 1888, p. 68. 
3. Wings above ashy brownish, brightly shot with lilac; 
borders and veins smoky brown, discocellulars and fringe also 
smoky brown; secondaries with a submarginal row of smoky 
brown spots, the last but one (near anal angle) blackish, 
the last three spots with white outer edges; the fringe of 
primaries towards external angle and that of secondaries with 
whitish basal line; body normal: under surface much as 
in Huchrysops cyclopterts, excepting that the last three sub- 
marginal spots on the secondaries are surmounted by orange 
zones, the last spot short and linear. The female is larger and 
bluer than the male, with well-defined blackish outer border 
and discocellular dash on primaries ; the costal borders of all 
wings broadly dusky; the secondaries with conspicuous orange 
zones to the last three submarginal spots on the upper 
surface: the under surface is whiter than in the male, the 
markings somewhat reduced in size and less conspicuous. 
Expanse of wings, 3 27, 2 30 millim. 
3, Tamaja, Equatorial Africa, 6th August; ?, Nadada, 
16th June (Emin Pasha). 
Traota Nicevillet, sp. n. 
Iraota mecenas, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, i. p. 102, pl. xl. figs. 2, 2a, 
(1880-81). 
This species differs from the true Z. mecenas (dry phase of 
I. timoleon) in the much more restricted and metallic Morpho- 
like colouring of the patches of colour on the upper surface, 
According to Moore these patches are metallic blue; but it 
would be more correct to call them green, as it is difficult to 
get them so placed as to eliminate all yellow from the blue ; 
and, when facing the light, the colouring is glittering metallic 
green. On the under surface the differences are not striking 
between the two species, but the white discoidal markings 
are less silvery in the Ceylonese insect and the discal white 
lunules on the primaries are reversed, their concavities being 
directed towards the base instead of the outer margin. Our 
examples, which are females, differ from the rich purple 
females of J. témoleon in their longer secondaries with more 
slender tails ; indeed, in their general aspect they more nearly 
resemble the male than the female of Z. t¢moleon. 
Expanse of wings 39-45 millim. 
Ceylon (Mrs. Lindesay and I. M. Mackwood). B. M. 
