1900.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 927 



52. Epameba abb oeifeba, sp. n. (Plate LVIII. fig. 2.) 



Size, colouring, and general aspect above of E. mimosce, the 

 primaries with straighter outer margin and broader outer border, 

 the secondaries also with blacker and broader marginal markings, 

 the patch between the second and third tails being large and 

 crossed by a broad white bar : below the wings remind one some- 

 what o£ E. aphnceoides, diametra, and oemuhis, being pure glistening 

 white ; the primaries with five black-edged mahogany-red bands, 

 of which the first two are short and cross the discoidal cell, the 

 third discal, extending to first median branch, the fourth sub- 

 marginal and the fifth marginal ; fringe black, tipped with brown : 

 in the secondaries are seven bands branching from one root above 

 the anal lobe ; the first is slender and borders the lower half of the 

 abdominal area, the second runs inwards obliquely parallel to the 

 first, the third and fourth fork in the form of a Y from the latter, 

 the inner ramus curving round at the base, the outer one passing 

 to costa ; the fifth band extends from the root across the disk 

 obliquely to the middle of costa; the sixth is submarginal, its black 

 border becoming confluent with that of the seventh, which is 

 marginal and has its first two divisions crescentic and white, only 

 becoming red above the first tail ; anal lobe black, enclosing a pale 

 blue dash, which passes into the white of the marginal band; 

 abdominal fringe and intercaudal fringes white; tails black, 

 tipped with white ; fringe from first tail to apex grey-brown : body 

 below white, the face mahogany-red ; antennas black, white- 

 ringed, tip of club mahogany-red ; palpi black above, white below, 

 excepting the third joint ; venter with longitudinal reddish 

 ochreous line. Expanse of wings 32 millimetres. 

 6 , Eoromo, Kikuyu, Nov. 26, 1899. 



"This lovely insect was taken by my servant Bvalamkombi 

 sitting on a twig, after a rainy morning, and I suppose only just 

 emerged." (E. 0.) 



E. arborifera is certainly one of the most beautiful novelties 

 which Mr. Crawshay has sent home. 



53. Ltc^2jesthes lemnos. 



Lyccenesthes lemnos, Hewitson, 111. Diurn. Lep. p. 221, pi. 90. 

 figs. 13, 14 (1878). 



6 d , Eungayi, 6700 feet about, March 21 ; Euarka Eiver 

 April 25, 1900. 



" This ' Blue,' be it noticed, has three pairs of tails — which I 

 have never before remarked in any butterfly I have ever taken. 

 By the merest chance I took this ' Blue' on the railway-line while 

 the locomotives were stopping to water. A perfectly lovelv blue " 

 (R.C.) 



54. Ltc^inesthes definita. 



Lyccenesthes definita, Butler, Ann. N. H. (7) iv. p. 342 (1899). 

 6 , Fort Smith, Kikuyu, June 25, 1899. 



