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Show 680 DR. A. <G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM [Nov. 7 the black outer margin by black veins, between which is a series of black spots; fringe as above. Expanse of wings 44-53 millim. Zomba, July 1892 and January 1893. The minimum measurement is taken from an example in the Museum from Delagoa Bay. The species, if m y memory serves, is nearly allied to G. pretiosissima, Holland (Ent. Suppl. 1892, p. 94). 187. CALLIODES GLAUCESCENS, sp. n. General tint above lavender-greyish; the basal and costal areas of primaries shot with sericeous lavender; the area below and beyond the ocellus bronzy greenish, shaded with yellowish and with golden brown; a belt enclosed by the second to fifth lines pale brownish glossed with pink; outer border greenish grey, fringe grey-brownish ; one slender black line, which in certain lights changes to leaden grey and becomes inconspicuous, across basal two-sevenths ; all the other lines undulated, beyond the ocellus- the first, which bounds the ocellus externally, sepia-brown, varying to steel-bluish towards costa; second line parallel to the first, glossed throughout with steel-blue; third line abbreviated towards costa, glossed wiih steel-blue; fourth brown, straight towards inner margin, abbreviated towards costa; the submarginal and marginal lines slender and black ; ocellus somewhat similar to that of the preceding species ; the « -shaped portion bounded externally by a black stripe edged on both sides with yellowish, the lobe black externally, the inner half of the black patch glossed with metallic leaden and edged with white ; leaden marking in the tail of the >- also white-edged; V-shaped area shot with sericeous lavender and edged with white : secondaries rufescent, slaty greyish towards inner margin and greenish on external border, the fringe of abdominal border brick-red; a small black spot at end of cell, followed by a straight black band, immediately beyond which is a blackish stripe; from this point the veins are shot with steel-blue; three regular parallel dentate-sinuate blackish stripes, glossed with steel-blue, excepting on the internervular folds; a brown dentate-sinuate stripe parallel to the others ; submarginal and marginal sinuated black fines: head dark brown, with a red line between the antennae; collar dark brown, red at the sides; body smoky mouse-grey; abdomen rose-red at the sides. Underside of wings bright opaque reddish orange; black spots at end of discoidal cells, followed by two parallel angulated discal series of spots, black and distinct on the secondaries ; a third series of indistinct grey dots, followed on the primaries by a series of grey lunules; a submarginal series of spots, very minute on the primaries, and a marginal series of dots, black: body below rose-red; palpi black externally, tibia? and tarsi black. Expanse of wings 53-57 millim. Zomba, December 1892 and January 1893. This lovely species has very much of the general pattern of the allied genus Spirama. |
