1891.] FROM SOTJTH-"WESTERN AFRICA. 87 



Head above dull brownish red ; eyes banded anteriorly by a 

 metallic silvery-white stripe, posteriorly by a dull white one ; palpi 

 with terminal joint and upperside of middle joint brownish red, but 

 beneath dull creamy ; antennse ferruginous, tipped with ochre- 

 yellow, beneath tinged with whitish about middle. Abdomen dull 

 brownish red laterally and termiually, beneath pale dull creamy in 

 basal half. 



In its robust body and produced wings, as well as in its five- 

 branched subcostal nervure of the fore wings, this butteriiy exhibits 

 unmistakable signs of belonging to the section of Aphiceus which 

 includes the brilliant A. hutchinsonn,Tx'im.,&\\dL (I believe) A.orcas 

 (Drury), and which Mr. de Niceville has recently (Butt. India &c. 

 iii. p. 347, 1890) proposed to separate generically under the name 

 of Aphncemorplia. The almost ferruginous tint of the upperside, 

 and the entire absence of silvery or other metallic lustre in the spots 

 of the underside, impart a most singular aspect to this species, quite 

 unlike that of any previously known member of the aenus '. The 

 position and arrangement, however, of the dark-edged spots on the 

 underside are similar to those found in A. orcas. Unfortunately, 

 the only example contained in Mr. Eriksson's collection is somewhat 

 rubbed and worn. 



66. ApHN^US NATALENSIS (WcstW.). 



2 (?). Amhlypodia natalensis, Westw. Gen. D. Lep. ii. j). 479, 

 pi. Ixxv. f. 4 (1852). 



S $ . AphncEus natalensis, Hewits. 111. D. Lep. p. (J2, pi. 2.5. 

 ff. 1, 2 (1865). 



Omaramba-Oamatako (January). Two examples; male and 

 female. 



07. ApHNJius MODESTUs, n. sp. (Plate IX. lig. 16 S-) 



S . Exp. al. 1 in. 2 Kn. 



Like A. natalensis (Westw.) S , hut the violaceous gloss of a 

 deeper tint, inclining to purple. Fore wing : short ochre-yellow 

 transverse band crossing discoidal cell narrower, median band 

 straighter and inferiorly wider, outer band narrower and united to 

 median one between 1st and 2nd median nervules. Rind wing : no 

 hind-marginal pale streak preceding black edging-line ; anal-angular 

 ochre-yellow spot smaller, and with only very faint indication of two 

 minute blackish spots on its outer edge. Underside. — Fale 

 whitish yellow ; the transverse fascia almost of the same tint as the 

 ground-colour, thinly edijed with fuscous in fore wing and with pale 

 grey in hind wing, and rather sparsely marked with silvery alomj 

 their middle. Fore wing : fasciae and other markings arranged as in 

 natalensis, but the former broader, less regular, more sinuate ; 



1 Mr. Hewitson in 1875 described (Ent. M. ilag. xii. p. 39), from a single 

 Borneau example, a large Aphnmia, imder the name of A. vixinga, wliich Jaas a 

 " dark red-brown upperside, " but the underside is noted as having " many 

 silver Spots " in both wings. 



