50 MR. S. A. NEAVE OX BUTTERFLIES [Jail. IS, 



the wet season. With the exception of one specimen captured 

 between the Luangwa river and Broken Hill, I did not meet 

 with it elsewhere. 



Spindasis trimeni, sp. n. (Plate II. fig. 7, d .) 



Allied to S. natalensis and victories*, but differs from these 

 species in the apical markings of the primaries, the orange colour 

 being reduced to three somewhat rectangular spots and never 

 forming bars. 



d . Upperside. — Primaries. Basal portion of inner marginal 

 area pale glistening blue extending upwards into base of cell ; a 

 black bar projecting from costa across middle of cell ; a white bar 

 (outlined in orange toward costa) a little before cell-middle, 

 extending into base of area 2 as a white or orange-washed whitish 

 spot; costa, apex, and outer margins blackish, enclosing 3 well- 

 defined orange spots ; the first nearly rectangular, lying beyond 

 end of cell ; the second somewhat triangular, lying in apex near 

 margin in area 5 (sometimes invading, a little, areas 6 and 4) ; 

 the third spot, the largest, placed submarginally in areas 3 and 2. 



Secondaries. Pale blue with dark costal and outer margins, the 

 latter double and reduced in size toward anal angle. In anal 

 lobe a pale sulphur-yellow patch, edged toward outer and inner 

 margins with a few black and silver scales ; tails on veins 2 and 

 1 b (the latter the longer) black, orange at base with a small 

 white tip. 



Underside. — In a fresh specimen pale sulphur-yellow with 

 transverse fascia? outlined in black or dark reddish-brown with 

 central dull steel-coloured streaks. Primaries: a basal spot with 

 steel centre ; a fascia from costa across cell-middle ending in an 

 extensive dusky patch on inner margin ; a second fascia from costa 

 across cell-end to near posterior angle where it breaks off into a 

 dark line ; this fascia is broken at the median vein by a dark 

 line ; a small steel-centred spot on costa be}> ond cell-end ; a third 

 fascia, starting on costa transversely, turns abruptly toward outer 

 margin at vein 4 ; an elongated spot in area 3 near cell-end 

 connects the 2nd and 3rd fasciae, and so sometimes forms a 

 branch of the former of these fasciae ; two submarginal dark lines 

 (the outer one rather indefinite) connected with dark linear outer 

 margin by dark lines on the veins. 



Secondaries coloured as primaries, the markings much as in 

 S. victories Butler, especially as to the basal spots and broken main 

 fascia, which, starting from costa, extends to near anal lobe and 

 then turns sharply toward inner margin. The second and outer 

 fascia however differs, beginning near origin of the first it slopes 

 toward outer margin, the two fasciae not being nearly parallel as 

 in victories ; an additional spot below costa, a little distal to, and 

 sometimes confluent with, the origin of the second fascia ; only a 

 trace of orange at base of anal lobe ; the tails as upperside, but 



* S. victoria- Butler, Ent. M. Mag. xx. p. 251. 



