636 On a new African Hesperid. 
LXVII.— Description of a new Species of African 
Hesperiine. By Hamitron H. Drucs, F.Z.S., F.H.S. 
Leucochitonea Hindet, sp. n. 
3 —Upperside. Allied to L. levubu, Walleng., from which it 
differs on the fore wing by broader black apical and outer- 
marginal borders, containing differently placed white spots. 
The black apex extends irregularly almost to the wall of the 
cell. The second and third spots of the subapical series are 
shorter thanin Z.levubu, consequently this band hasan irregular 
appearance. The black outer margin extends broadly to the 
angle and contains one more white spot than is usual in 
I. levubu, viz. two in the space between the lower median 
nervule and the submedian nervure. The marginal row of 
white spots which in L. levubu is composed of spots of almost 
uniform size, is in L. Hinded much more irregular, the apical 
four being small, the next two large, whilst the remaining 
two near the angle are again small. 
The hind wing has the black margin slightly broader than 
in L. levubu. 
The abdomen is white, with a broad black central stripe, 
the cilia chequered, the coxe orange at the base, and the anal 
tuft black and white, as in L. levubu. 
Underside. Fore wing as above. Hind wing as above, 
but with the costal nervure black from its base to its apex 
and a black basal suffusion between the anal margin and the 
submedian nervure. Antenne black, whitish on underside 
of clubs. Legs black and white. Head black, with white 
spots. 
: 9 .—Differs from the male by having a thick anal tuft of 
yellowish hairs, as in L. levubu 9. 
Expanse as in L. levubu. 
Hab. Kitui, British East Africa (about 4000 feet) (CS. Z. 
Hinde). 
This species, which I have named after its captor, Mr. 8. L. 
Hinde, who took it in December 1900 (8 ¢, 1 2), is also 
allied to DL. amnerts, Rebel and Rogenhofer, described in 
Dr. Oscar Baumann’s ‘ Through Massailand to the Sources 
of the Nile,’ p. 838 (Berlin, 1894). LZ. amneris is described 
as being without the black veins of levubu, but with the black 
apical marking much broader and the ‘border spots” 
smaller and more rounded. It was captured in the Kiwaya 
Desert and at Umbugwe, which is south-west of Kilima-Njaro. 
Mr. Hinde presented his specimens to the University 
Museum, Oxford, where the types now remain. 
Plétz, in the ‘Journal of the Entomological Society of 
Stettin,’ 1885, p. 36, describes Sapeea lactea, but does not 
