SATYRID.E IDIOMORPIIUS. 



IDIOMORPHUS ICCIUS. 4, 5. 



Upperstde. Male purple brown. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle by 

 a lilac band (less oblique than in the last species) marked on its inner border by a 

 small black spot ; a patch of long hair before the middle between the median and 

 sub-median nervures. Posterior wing with a tuft of hair (as in the species just 

 described) in the discoidal cell. 



Underside. Grey brown. Both wings crossed before and at the middle by 

 common bands of dark brown ; each with a band of brown (not continuous) beyond 

 the middle : both with the margin and a sub-marginal line brown. Anterior wing, with 

 three transverse bands within the cell, with two ocelli : posterior wing with si.x, the 

 second and third scarcely formed, each with a large white pupil and narrow rufous 

 iris. 



Exp. 2^% inch. Hab. Old Calabar. 



In tbe Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



The genus Idiomorphus was constructed by M. Doumet to contain an insect of somewhat different 

 contour to tnose now figured, but since they agree iu the form of the palpi and the neuration of the 

 wings, I do not hesitate to place them here. The two species now figured are very similar except in 

 colour, the male of I. Iccius having a transverse band as in the female of Italus ; the first transverse 

 band of the underside is curved in one, iu the other straight. 



