1881.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM SOCOTRA. 1/9 



One rather worn female. 



The species is of the size and general form of Belenois abijssinica ; 

 but its pattern and coloration seem to ally it to the species of 

 Sj/nch/oe ; the possession of a male specimen would satisfactorily 

 decide whether or not it is an unusually aberrant Belenois. 



Hesperiid^. 



Hesperia jucunda, sp. n. (Plate XVIII. fig. 8.) 



(Nos. 751 (^, 766 2.) 



Dull blackish-brown : primaries shot with shining green and 

 bronzy brown towards the base ; edge of costal margin yellow 

 towards the base, but white towards the apex ; fringe of outer 

 margin snow-white : secondaries with costal border and anal 

 angle velvety black ; the hairy clothing of the basal area 

 greenish grey, of the abdominal fold pale testaceous ; a patch of 

 ochreous hair just above the anal angle ; fringe with an ochreous 

 basal line, externally snow-white to the first median branch, where 

 it changes to bright reddish orange : head and thorax very dark 

 green ; the palpi (excepting their terminal joint and external margin, 

 which are velvety blaclc), a spot at the base of each antenna, and the 

 back of the head bright reddish orange ; abdomen dull black, with 

 greyish hind margins to the segments, anus surrounded by reddish- 

 orange hairs. Wings below greyish brown : primaries with a large 

 diffused purplish-black basal patch ; costal margin orange towards 

 the base, but afterwards white ; an abbreviated line on the sub- 

 median vein, a second on the inner margin, and the fringe white : 

 secondaries with the fringe as above ; a triangular spot within the 

 end of the cell, a large elongated patch enclosing a black spot on 

 the interno-median interspace, and an interrupted squamose streak 

 running upwards towards the apex from its external extremity 

 orange ; a circular spot near the outer margin on the interno-median 

 interspace, and a second at anal angle confluent with the fringe, 

 reddish orange : pectus blackish ; femora and tibiae streaked with 

 pale buff" and clothed with long reddish-orange hairs, venter black at 

 the sides, with two or three small orange dots; a broad central 

 longitudinal reddish-orange stripe. Expanse of wings, cS 2 inches 

 6 lines, 5 2 inches 9 lines. 



Three males and one female. 



The female specimen is rather paler than the male ; but this may 

 be partly due to fading. The species comes nearest to //. taranis. 



HETEROCERA. 

 L1THOS11D.E. 

 Deiopeia pulchella (No. 756). 



Tinea pulchella, Linnseus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 884, no. 349 (1766). 

 Two examples, one of which has the scarlet markings on the 

 primaries larger than usual. 



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