1891.] FROM SOUTH-WESTERN AFRICA. 87 



Head above dull brownish red ; eyes banded anteriorly by a 

 metallic silvery-white stripe, posteriorly by a dull white one ; palpi 

 with terminal joint and upperside of middle joint brownish red, but 

 beneath dull creamy ; antennae ferruginous, tipped with ochre- 

 yellow, beneath tinged with whitish about middle. Abdomen dull 

 brownish red laterally and terminally, beneath pale dull creamy in 

 basal half. 



In its robust body and produced wings, as well as iu its five- 

 branched subcostal nervure of the fore wings, this butterfly exhibits 

 unmistakable signs of belonging to the section of Aphnceus which 

 includes the brilliant A. hutchinsonii,Hv\xn.,Sindi (I believe) A. orcas 

 (Drury), and which Mr. de Niceville has recently (Butt. India &c. 

 iii. p. 347, 1890) proposed to separate generically under the name 

 of Aphncemorpha. The almost ferruginous tint of the upperside, 

 and the entire absence of silvery or other metallic lustre in the spots 

 of the underside, impart a most singular aspect to this species, quite 

 unlike that of any previously known member of the genus \ The 

 position and arrangement, however, of the dark-edged spots on the 

 underside are similar to those found in A. orcas. Unfortunately, 

 the only example contained ia Mr. Eriksson's collection is somewhat 

 rubbed and worn. 



66. Aphn^us natalensis (Westw.). 



$ (?). Amblypodia natalensis, Westw. Gen. D. Lap. ii. p. 479, 

 pi. Ixxv. f. 4 (1852). 



S 2 . Aphnceus natalensis, Hewits. 111. D. Lep. p. 62, pi. 25. 

 ff. 1, 2 (1865). 



Omaramba-Oamatako (January). Two examples; male and 

 female. 



67. ApHNiEus MODESTUs, u. sp. (Plate IX. fig. 16 S •) 



S . Exp. al. 1 in. 2 liu. 



Like A. natalensis (Westw.) S , but the violaceous gloss of a 

 deeper tint, inclining to purple. Fore wing : short ochre-yellow 

 transverse band crossing discoidal cell narrower, median band 

 straighter and inferiorly wider, outer band narrower and united to 

 median one between 1st and 2iid median nervules. Hind wing : no 

 hind-marginal pale streak preceding black edging-line ; anal-angular 

 ochre-yellow spot smaller, and with only very faint indication of two 

 minute blackish spots on its outer edge. Underside. — Pale 

 whitish yellow ; the transverse fascia almost of the same tint as the 

 ground-colour, thinly edyed with fuscous in fore wing and with pale 

 grey in hind wing, and rather sparsely marked ivith silvery along 

 their middle. Fore wing : fasciseand other markings arranged as in 

 natalensis, but the former broader, less regular, more sinuate ; 



1 Mr. Hewitson in 1875 described (Ent. M. Mag. xii. p. 39), from a single 

 Bornean example, a large Aphnceus, under the name of A. vixinga, which has a 

 " dark red-brown upperside, " but the underside is noted as having " many 

 silver spots " in both wings. 



