80 MR. S. A. XEAVE OX BUTTERFLIES [Jan. 18, 



Parnara fatuellus HopfF. 

 A common species everywhere. 



Parnara borbonica Boisd. 



Less common than the preceding species, rather scarce in the 

 Luangwa valley. 



Parnara detecta Trim. 

 Ubiquitous. 



Parnara auritinctus Butler. 



Baoris auritinctus Butler, P. Z. S. 1898, p. 416, pi. xxxii. fig. 2. 

 Of this species, which seems rare in collections, I took several 

 specimens in the Chambezi valley, iv. and v. 



Parnara micans Holl. 



Parnara micans Holl. P. Z. S. 1896, p. 63, pi. iii. fig. 19. 



I found this species sparingly in Katanga, but subsequently 

 took it abundantly on the Chambezi river, iv., v., and less 

 commonly on the Kalungwisi, ix. 



Parnara chambezi, sp. n. (Plate III. fig. 9, J •) 



Somewhat allied to micans Holl., but a smaller insect without 

 any rufous-orange colour on upper surface, and with all the hyaline 

 spots lai'ger and better developed, especialby on secondaries. 



<S . Upperside. — Primaries olive-brownish, with a few ochreous 

 scales at base and on inner margin ; the following hyaline spots : 

 one within cell near and below costa ; three below costa between 

 cell and apex (the first of these often much reduced or absent in 

 the male); three discal spots below cell and in areas 4, 3, 2, the 

 last the largest. 



Secondaries. Ground-colour as primaries ; a clearly-marked row 

 of four whitish spots below and beyond cell-end in areas 5, 4, 3, 2. 



Underside. — Costa, apical portion of primaries, and whole of 

 secondaries except inner margin and areas 1 a, 1 b, flushed with 

 bright ferruginous spots as upperside, but discal spots accom- 

 panied exteriorly by small patches of upperside ground-colour. 

 Sometimes a small whitish discocellular spot in secondaries and 

 an additional spot of discal row in area 6. 



Palpi pale ochreous ; thorax and abdomen as ground-colour ; 

 tip of abdomen ferruginous below. 



Length of primary 14 mm. 



The females are larger, primary 15 5 mm., and have all the 

 spots markedly larger. 



Types c? and $ in the British Museum : Chambezi valley, 

 15 <fe 18.iv.08. 



Cotypes in Hope Coll., Oxford, from the same locality. 



Described from 37 males and 18 females. 



This species was common in the Chambezi valley, iv., but was 

 not met with elsewhere. 



