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the black outer margin by black veins, between which is a series of 

 black spots ; fringe as above. Expanse of wings 44-53 millim. 



Zomba, July 1892 and January 1893. 



The minimum measurement is taken from an example in the 

 Museum from Delagoa Bay. The species, if my memory serves, 

 is nearly aUied to C. pretiosissima, HoUand (Ent. Suppl. 1892, 

 p. 94). 



187. CaLLIODES GliATTCESOEKS, sp. n. 



General tint above lavender-greyish ; the basal and costal areas 

 of primaries shot with sericeous lavender ; the area below and 

 beyond the ocellus bronzy greenish, shaded with yellowish and with 

 golden brown ; a belt enclosed by the second to fifth lines pale 

 brownish glossed with pink ; outer border greenish grey, fringe 

 grey-brownish ; one slender black line, which in certain lights 

 changes to leaden grey and becomes inconspicuous, across basal 

 two-sevenths ; all the other lines undulated, beyond the ocellus — 

 the first, which bounds the oceUus externally, sepia-brown, varying 

 to steel-bluish towards costa ; second line parallel to the first, 

 glossed throughout with steel-blue ; third line abbreviated towards 

 costa, glossed wil;h steel-blue; fourth brown, straight towards 

 inner margin, abbreviated towards costa ; the submarginal and 

 marginal lines slender and black ; ocellus somewhat similar to that 

 of the preceding species ; the « -shaped portion bounded exter- 

 nally by a black stripe edged on both sides with yellowish, the 

 lobe black externally, the inner half of the black patch glossed with 

 metallic leaden and edged with white ; leaden marking in the tail of 

 the V. also white-edged ; V-shaped area shot with sericeous lavender 

 and edged with white : secondaries rufescent, slaty greyish towards 

 inner margin and greenish on external border, the fringe of 

 abdominal border brick-red; a small black spot at end of cell, 

 followed by a straight black band, immediately beyond which 

 is a blackish stripe; from this point the veins are shot with 

 steel-blue ; three regular parallel dentate-sinuate blackish 

 stripes, glossed with steel-blue, excepting on the internervular 

 folds ; a brown dentate-sinuate stripe parallel to the others ; 

 submarginal and marginal sinuated black lines : head dark 

 brown, with a red line between the antennae ; collar dark 

 brown, red at the sides ; body smoky mouse-grey ; abdomen 

 rose-red at the sides. Underside of wings bright opaque reddish 

 orange ; black spots at end of discoidal cells, followed by two 

 parallel angulated discal series of spots, black and distinct on the 

 secondaries ; a third series of indistinct grey dots, followed on the 

 primaries by a series of greylunules ; a submarginal series of spots, 

 very minute on the primaries, and a marginal series of dots, black: 

 body below rose-red; palpi black externally, tibiae and tarsi black. 

 Expanse of wings 53-57 millim. 



Zomba, December 1892 and January 1893. 



This lovely species has very much of the general pattern of the 

 allied genus Spirama, 



