84 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES [Jan. 20, 



Genus Deudorix, Hewits. 

 59. Deudorix antalus (Hopff.). 



Dipsas cmtalus, Hopff. loc. cit. 1855, p. 641. n. 15 ; and op. cit. 

 p. 400, t, XXV. ff. 7-9 [? ] (1S62). 



Omrora (August) . One female example. 



(iO. Deudorix licinia (Mabille). 



S . Thecla licinia, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1878, p. 83 ; 

 Grandid. Hist. Phys. etc. Madag. pi. 30 A. ff. 5, 5a (1885). 



cT 5 . Deudorix dinochares, H. G. Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. 5th ser. xix. p. 64. n. 7 (1887). 



Omrora (August), Ehanda (August-September), and Okavango 

 River (December). Four male examples. 



The Okavango specimen and one of the two Ehanda examples are 

 normal and full-sized, but the other two are considerably smaller, 

 and the Omrora individual has the orange-red ground-colour 

 yellower in tint than usual, and the fuscous border of the fore wings 

 narrower. 



61. Deudorix obscurata, n. sp. (Plate IX. fig. 13 d ■) 



Exp. al. 1 in. 2 lin. 



(5 . Glossy lilacine-blue, with costa of both wings and apical half 

 of fore wing pale dull brownish grey ; in fore winr/, hetween costa 

 and Ist median nervvle, a very large upper-median black patch. 

 Fore wing : inner margin prominently convex before middle ; black 

 patch irrorated with blue in discoidal cell and between 1st and 2nd 

 median nervules ; costal border of brownish grey very narrow as far 

 as outer edge of black patch ; very broad apical hind-marginal 

 brownish grey, abruptly terminating on 1st median nervule. 

 Hind wing : costal subbasal sexual badge large, shining, whitish, 

 fuscous-edged, roughly ovate ; costal border of brownish grey 

 moderately wide as far as apex, not extending below 2ud subcostal 

 nervule; inner-marginal brownish-grey border suffused with whitish, 

 not extending above submedian nervure ; a fine black hind-marginal 

 bounding line, more apparent inferiorly ; linear black tail at ex- 

 tremity of 1st median nervule white-tipped, rather long; lobe at 

 anal angle not large, bearing a black spot with some metallic-blue 

 scales. Cilia brownish grey, mixed slightly with white near 

 posterior angle of fore wing and in hind wing, in which latter white 

 predominates at and near anal angle. Underside. — Pale yellowish 

 grey ; ordinary terminal discocellular, discal, and submarginal 

 markings not darker than the ground-colour, but defined by very 

 slender and inconspicuous whitish bounding lines ; no subbasal spots 

 in either wing. Fore wing: just below median nervure and origin 

 of its 1st nervule a conspicuous longitudinal black mark (mostly 

 hidden by convex prominence of costa of hind wing), being the upper 

 part of a large shining whitish black-edged subpyriform inner-mar- 

 ginal sexual badge, corresponding with that on costa of hind wing on 

 the upperside. Hind wing : black spot on anal-angular lobe and a 



