■1896.] BUTTEKFLIBS OF THE TAMILT HESPBRIID^. & 



two in cell 1, one, transversely elongated, in cell 2, and a smaller 

 one in cell 3. The secondaries are heavily marked wdth black on 

 the outer angle, and there is a curved series of three or four small 

 black spots in the subcostal interspaces. Just after the large black 

 spot on the outer angle, the outer margin is lightly touched with 

 whitish. A fine dark marginal line defines the origin of the cilia, 

 which are fuscous upon the upperside. On the underside the 

 primaries are blackish, shading slightly into bluish grey at the 

 base. The translucent spots appear as on the upperside ; the 

 two spots in cell 1 being defined outwardly by two parallel whitish 

 rays. The secondaries are white, laved with bluish grey at the 

 base. The outer angle is black. The black spots on the subcostal 

 interspaces are as on the upper surface, but more clearly defined 

 upon the white ground. In addition there are two small discal 

 dots in cell 1, and a small black dot on the outer margin near the 

 extremity of vein 1. The cilia on the underside are white toward 

 the anal angle. 



Expanse 35 mm. 



Hah. Gaboon (Mocquerys). Type in collection Staudinger. 



18. S. BLiMiNATA, sp. nov. (Plate V. fig. 9.) 



(S . The colour of the upperside of the thorax and abdomen is 

 dark fuscous, of the underside yellowish ochraceous. The antennse 

 are black, the legs grey, edged with blackish anteriorly. The pri- 

 maries on the upperside are fuscous. There are three small 

 confluent subapical spots, a similar small spot on the upper edge 

 of the cell near its end, and two other like spots in cells 2 and 3, 

 of which the former is the larger. Both the subapical series and 

 the discal spots are followed inwardly by dark cloudings. The 

 interspaces just before the margin are marked by obscure darker 

 oblong spots. There is a fine dark marginal line. The cilia are 

 fuscous. The secondaries are traversed by a series of obscure dark 

 fuscous transverse median, limbal, and submarginal spots. The 

 spot of the median series located at the end of the cell is annuli- 

 form. The marginal line and cilia are as on the primaries. Both 

 the primaries and secondaries on the underside are clear yellowish 

 ochraceous, with the cilia pale fuscous. The inner margin of the 

 primaries is testaceous. The translucent spots of the upper surface 

 reappear upon the lower side and are narrowly margined with 

 fuscous. Fuscous submarginal and limbal bauds traverse the 

 primaries, leaving sagittate spots of the prevaiUng ground-colour 

 between them on the intra-neural spaces. The secondaries show 

 the transverse series of spots of the upper surface, but more 

 distinctly defined and generally rounded than on the upperside. 



5 like the male. 



Expanse 28-30 mm. 



[lab. Abyssinia (Staudinger) ; Somaliland {in my collection). 



This species is labelled in the Staudinger collection by Mons. 

 Mabille as " nerva, Eabr." Mons. MabiUe has on several occasions 

 in his correspondence with me insisted upon employing the Fabric 



