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RIPTIONS 0. TWO NEW SPECIES o. LEPIDOPTEBA BEOPALOCERA. 
by w. c. hewit30n, p.l.s. 
Chabaxes Cisabon. 
Upper-side. Male rafou..bi-own. Botli ,vi.gs crossed beyond the 
Je by a rufous baud, broadest wbere tbe wings meet, ..arrow and m 
■orm of a V at its commeocemeut on tbe eostal margin : both wings 
.from the band to the outer margin. Anterior wing w.tb two 
, spots within the cell, and three or four larger blaek spots on the 
r border of tbo band : a marginal series of rufons spots. Posterior 
, with a sub-marginal series of lunular rufons spots : the margm 
{■ two minute spots of lilac-white at the anal angle. 
Underside. Both wings with the central band (whreh .s nar^owe 
.above on the anterior wiugj silver: three spots m the cell, two 
,w these, one at the end of the cell and three touehmg he central 
a, all blaek bordered with silver : a sub-marginal band »' gj-^y^'; 
ed towards the anal angle with black. Posterior wmg w.th a black 
,dat the base bordered with silver: three brown bands bordered 
h silver parallel and near to the inner margin, a band '^''^'^^'^^ 
■er at its eommeneemcnt on the costal margin, black below ordered 
:h silver and in the form of a V where it runs paral el to the bands 
t described : three or four black spots on the central baud and be- 
ad it a band of black spots bordered outwardly with silver : a suh- 
.ginal band of spots and the outer margin blaek, bordered with 
v-er: two spotsof silvery-grey bordered with black at the anal angle. 
Exp. S^'o inch. Hab. Natal. _ 
In the collection of Mr. Christopher Ward. Thi. species one of 
e most beautiful of the genus, decorated as it is profusely ^vlth silver, 
,s taken by Mr. Morant, who describes it as exceedingly switt m 
ght. 
OpsipnAT^ES Okgetoeix. 
Upper-side. Male dark rufous-brown. Anterior wing crossed 
■om the costal margin beyond its middle to the anal angle by a curved 
xfous band, broadest where it crosses the discoidal nervures : three 
ab-apical white spots. Posterior wing with a tuft of hair having its 
ri<.in near the end of the cell : tbe outer margin broadly rutous. 
^ Under-side rufous, beautifully undulated and spotted with dark 
,rown and white. Anterior wing with a brown spot near the base, a 
luadrifid spot in the cell bordered with black, a broad transverse dark 
Irown baPd before the middle : the outer margin rufous-brown, bordered 
