26 Mr. H. II. Druce on new Species of Lycasnidas. 



rowly bordered, the border scarcely reaching to the anal angle. 

 Hind wings pure white, with the fringe only brownish. 



Underside. — Fore wings as above. Hind wings bordered 

 with blackish brown from the apex to the anal angle, but less 

 broadly than in the male, so that the apical patch is left 

 almost free. There is also the black spot between the cell 

 and the inner margin. 



Head black ; thorax and abdomen whitish ; legs and palpi 

 yellowish red ; antennae black, annulate with white. 



Expanse 1-i— If inch. 



Hab. W. Africa, Lagos. 



This species, although allied to L. varipes, Kirby, can be 

 readily distinguished by its much broader borders and by the 

 absence of any spot in the cell of the hind wing below, in that 

 respect approaching L. lirccea, Hew., from Old Calabar. I 

 may also add that in the eight specimens I have examined 

 (five males, three females) there is no appreciable difference 

 in the width of the border, and the spots below are identical 

 in all cases. 



5. Spalgis lemolea, sp. n. 



^ . Upperside.— Fore wing white, the base, costa, apex, and 

 anterior margin rather broadly brown. Hind wing white, 

 with a well-marked minute black line running along the mar- 

 gin from the apex to the anal angle, thickening slightly at 

 each nervule. 



Underside white, with rows of thin, irregular, brown lines, 

 much as in S. epius, Westw., but less thickly covered. The 

 marginal black line present on hind wing as on upperside, 

 also on fore wing from the apex to the anal angle. 



? . Upperside. — Fore wing as in male. Hind wing bordered 

 with brown from apex to the anal angle. 



Underside as in male, except that the marginal line is 

 replaced by a small black clot at the extremity of each nervule. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brown ; antennas brown ; legs 

 white, with black spots. 



Expanse, $ 1^, ? 1-^j inch. 



Hab. W. Africa, Lagos. 



This species, although somewhat allied to S. epius, Westw., 

 on the underside, is distinguished, apart from its larger size, 

 by the pure white wings. On the upperside the female of 

 this species bears a close resemblance to Larinopoda muhata, 

 Dewitz, as figured in ' Lepidoptera Exotica ' by Mr. H. G. 

 ►Smith. 



