830 DB. A. a. DUTLBU ON LEPIDOITBUA. [NoV. 17, 



62. ZlZEHA GAIEA. 



Lyccena gaiha, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 3rd ser. vol. i. 

 p. 403 (1862). 



6 6 , Luvira Eiver, Nyasa to Tanganyika Eoad, August 23rd, 

 1895. 



63. ZlZEllA LUCIDA. 



Lyccena lucida, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loudon, 1883, p. 348. 



d, Virauli Hill, Nyasa to Tanganyika Eoad, August 22nd ; 

 5 $ , Chuona Eiver (Mwewe's town), Unyika, Sept. 15lh, 1895; 

 Deep Bay, Peb. 11th and 24th, 1896. 



64. Plebeius teochilus. 



Lyccena Uochilus, Preyer, Neuere Beitr. v. pi. 440. fig. 1 (1844). 

 Deep Bay, Peb. 6tli, 14th, and 24th, 1896. 



65. SCOLITANTIDES STELLATA. 



Lyccena stellata, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1883, p. 349. 

 Kasungu Mountain, 5400 feet alt., Nyika, March 5th, 1896. 



CrcLiEius, gen. nov. 

 Nearly allied to Hyrius, but with rounded wings ; the second- 

 aries without tails ; neuration as in Ilyrcus. Type, FolyommcUus 

 webbicmus. This genus will contain the species P. ivcbbianus 

 and //. cecjiiatorialis, hitherto referred to Ifyreus, as well as the 

 following : — 



66. CvcLTEirs JTJNO, sp. n. (Plate XLI. fig. 5.) 



Allied to 0. welbianus, the male above lilac, bluer at base, with 

 broad cupreous-brown costal and external borders ; fringes white, 

 spotted witli brown at the extremities of the nervures ; secondaries 

 with the abdominal area somewliat greyish ; nn oval subniarginal 

 black ocellus with shining lilac iris on tirst median interspace, and 

 indications of a second smaller similar ocellus near anal angle on 

 iuterno-median interspace. Body above black, clothed with silver 

 hair; a silvery-white line on each side of the frons, immediately 

 in front of the eyes ; collar clothed with golden hair : under surface 

 of primaries golden brown, the markings not very distinct, but 

 consisting of two pale-edged, quadrate, slightly darker spots cross- 

 ing the discoidal cell, and a belt of similar character across the disc, 

 its up])ermost division with white outer edge and followed by a 

 creamy «hite diffused subapical spot; fringe creamy white, spotted 

 with blackish : secondaries white, speckled with blackish at the 

 base and mottled and banded with copper-brown almost exactly in 

 the pattern of C. cecjuatorialis; a black oval spot, enclosing a metallic 

 green dash, representing the ocelhis of the upper surface. Body 

 below densely covered with white hair or scales, the legs brownish 

 above, white below. — Peiuale above cupreous brown, wiih fringe 

 and ocelli as in male; under surface with bro\in-ceutred white 



