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Fore wing. Brown tinged with bronze, and with faint blushes of 

 bright violet. Near the apical portion of the wing a large heart- 

 shaped patch of velvety black. Cilia brown, alternately marked 

 with white, but not very distinctly. 



Hind wing. Similar to the fore wing, slightly darker at the base. 

 The first median nervule terminates with a fairly long tail, having 

 on either side a bright green ocellus edged round with black, the 

 second one being the smaller of the two and terminating at the end 

 of the submedian nervure. Cilia similar to the fore wing but much 

 more distinct. 



Underside very distinct from that of H. juba. 



Fore wing. Ground-colour pearly white ; the basal area, especially 

 just below the discoidal cell, shaded with light brown. Costal 

 margin alternately marked with brownish black, which extends 

 through the cell to the median nervure in bars ; near the apical 

 portion is another black bar, separated at the costal margin by a 

 spot of white, which decreases in width to the second median 

 nervule. The snbmarginal border is black, having a thin white line 

 much dentated, then another edging of black not so distinct, and 

 also six white spots, those near the apex being more distinct and 

 separated from each other by the nervules. Cilia much more dis- 

 tinct than on the upperside. 



Hind wing. White, with numerous spots and markings near the 

 base, which become thicker towards the inner margin ; the end of 

 the cell is marked by an outline of black. Near the costa, about 

 the middle of the wiug, is a round spot of black with a large white 

 centre, and at the end of the costal nervure is a figure of 8 outlined 

 with black and having white centres. Straight from the end of the 

 cell and situated some little way off is a spot, very much pointed 

 towards the hind margin, with two smaller spots, one on either 

 side, all outlined with black, leaving the centres white. Near the 

 hind margin is a snbmarginal border of white, very finely edged 

 with black lines on the upper and lower sides, leaving white centres 

 which are rather dentated towards the base. Between the first and 

 second median nervules the black is much more distinct, and is re- 

 lieved by a minute black spot, edged on either side by small specks 

 of brilliant emerald-green, which become of a reddish bronze on the 

 side close to the cilia ; there is another spot of the same description, 

 but with less green, between the submedian nervure and the first 

 median nervule ; this spot is also rather smaller than the other. 

 Cilia nearly all white. 



Expanse 1'4 inch. 



Hab. Sotik, Kavirondo, Sept. 1889. 



Genus Lyc^na. 

 Lyc^na iEdUATORiALis, sp. u. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 5.) 

 Allied to L. palemon. Cram., but easily distinguished by the 



different shade of blue on the wings, this blue colour being brighter 



and more distinct than in the species referred to. 



