72 MB. E. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, 



5th spots being confluent with two of the hind-marginal series, 

 but the 6th quite separate. Another distinctive character of the 

 female is that the cilia are pale yellow, instead of dark brown, on 

 both upperside and underside. 



139. Ctclopides mineni, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 16.) 



Exp. al. 1 in. 2| lin. 



Fuscous ; fore wing with two discocellular and a serpentine series 

 of eight disced small but ivell-defined transparent spots. Fore wing : 

 discocellular spots terminal, rounded, separate, placed transversely 

 one above the other ; discal series of spots flexed inwardly just 

 below costa, then strongly outwardly to near hind margin, and 

 thence directed inwardly to below extremity of cell, so that the spots 

 are most irregularly placed — the second being a little before the 

 first, the third a little beyond both these, the fourth (between 

 radial nervules) not far from hind margin, the fifth almost directly 

 below the third, the sixth directly below the second, the seventh 

 (rounder and rather larger than the rest) close to and only a little 

 beyond the lower discocellular spot, and the eighth (just above 

 submedian nervure) directly below the discocellular spots. Cilia 

 white, with black nervular marks. Underside. — Hind wing, and 

 basicostal area of fore wing including discoidal cell, dull pale yellow. 

 Fore wing : spots as on upperside but all larger ; a slight yellowish 

 irroration along hind-marginal border. Hind wing : a discal sei-ies 

 of seven very conspicuous and irregularly disposed white spots in 

 dull fuscous borders, of which the first and seventh are largest 

 and before the rest, and the fifth is nearest to hind margin ; two 

 moderate-sized fuscous spots — one near base between costal and 

 subcostal nervures, the other at extremity of discoidal cell. Cilia 

 as on upperside. 



It is with some doubt that I place this Butterfly in the genus 

 Cyclopides, as the only specimen, taken in Mineni Valley on 

 March 25th, is not in good condition, and its sex cannot be deter- 

 mined. The antenna is rather longer and with a more elongate 

 club than in C. metis (Linn.) and O. malgacha (Boisd.), but the 

 first subcostal nervule in the fore wing runs free to the costal edge, 

 and the tibia of the hind leg bears two pairs of spurs as usual. 

 In general aspect and in the character of the markings this species 

 reminds one of the West-African genus Geratrichia, and the 

 arrangement of the transparent spots in the fore wing is almost 

 exactly like that in Pamphila ophiusa (Hewits.), from Old Calabar 

 and Gaboon, while the colouring and spotting of the underside of 

 the hind wing somewhat resemble those features in P. callicles 

 (Hewits.). 



Genus Pyrgus, Westw. 



140. Pyrgus vindex (Cram.). 



Papilio vindex, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. cccliii. figs. G, H 

 (1781). 



The only specimen, a male from the Mineni Valley, is of the 



