70 Mlt. S. A. NEA.VE OX BUTTERFLIES [Jan. 18, 



Saraxcjesa maxima, sp. n. (Plate III. fig. 11, J.) 



A very large species, characterised by its broad wings and 

 orange underside. 



o* . Upperside. Ground-colour pale olive-grey, through which 

 the orange underside faintly shows, with dark markings and small 

 hyaline spots. 



Primaries. A narrow dark median fascia from costa to hind 

 margin crossing cell just before end and forming in area 2 a 

 rather large dark spot ; before middle a narrow dark line in area 

 1 b connecting veins 1 and 2 ; a small hyaline discocellular spot 

 (indistinct on upper surface) ; a broad short dark fascia beyond 

 cell-end from costa to vein 6, bounded outwardly by two hyaline 

 spots (the second and posterior very indistinct) ; hyaline spots 

 below cell-end in areas 3 and 2, of which the latter is the larger ; a 

 faint submarginal row of dark internervular spots ; a linear dark 

 margin. 



Secondaries. Dark spots above, within and below cell-middle ; a. 

 large discocellular ; a discal row of dark internervular spots around 

 cell-end, a similar but less distinct submarginal row. 



Underside. — Primaries. All the markings more distinct, the 

 ground-colour, except on hind margin, replaced by bright orange. 



Secondaries. Markings as upperside but whole wing, except a 

 patch on anterior part of outer margin, suffused with bright 

 orange. 



Fringe long and same shade as upperside ground-colour ; palpi 

 dusky brown above, pale yellow below ; thorax and abdomen above, 

 as upperside ground-colour, below, pale yellowish. 



Length of primary 19 mm. 



This species, with its broad rounded wings, resembles in shape 

 djailaila?. Wallengr., and its allies, but in its only slightly waved 

 outline and general distribution of markings is more like molozi, 

 etc. 



Type 6 in British Museum : Lualaba river, 29.V.07. 



Cotvpe in Hope Coll., Oxford : upper Kalungwisi valley, 

 7.ix.08. 



This is a forest species, of which the above two specimens were 

 the only ones met with. 



Sarangesa djjeljelm Wallengr. 



Pterygospidia djo?la>lai Wallengr. K. S. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857, 

 Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 54, no. 5. 



This species is not uncommon and is widely distributed. Some 

 individuals, more especially those from the more northern part 

 of the high plateau country, are larger than S. African specimens, 

 rather paler above, and less flushed with fulvous below. 



Sabaxgesa xox, sp. n. (Plate III. fig. 16, <$ .) 



Allied to S. djrdoelce Wallengr., but dull black and almost 

 without a rufous underside. 



