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Show 190 MISS E. M. SHARPE ON N E W [Mar. 3, at the end of the three median nervules becoming gradually larger, and the mark at the end of the radial nervules being confluent with the blackish apex. Hind wing creamy ochreous, with a pinkish tinge on the basal area, the hind margin scalloped with a white fringe, before which a broad band of black, confluent at the end of the subcostal and radial nervules, and succeeded by a large rounded spot of black at the end of each median nervule. At the end of the submedian nervure is a small spot of black, the adjoining portion of the wing being shaded with orange. Underside. Fore wing pearly white, rich orange at the base, and shaded with orange-yellow towards the apex, with a distinct row of black spots on the hind margin of the wing, and extending round the apex till they become evanescent on the costal margin. Hind wing orange-yellow, a little deeper in colour near the base; the hinder margin with a row of large black rounded spots. Exp. 4 inches. Hab. Kavirondo, Oct. 1889. 4. MYLOTHRIS JACKSONI, sp. n. (Plate XVI. fig. 3.) Nearest to M. narcissus of Butler (P. Z. S. 1888, p. 95), from Kilimanjaro, but differing in the broad black border, which extends along the inner margin to the base of the fore wing. Fore wing white, with a complete black border all round, the base black, with a swollen area of black, extending from the base along the upper margin of the discoidal cell to the middle of the costal border, where the black costal margin is decidedly narrower; the border on the hind margin denticulated on its inner edge. Hind wing bright sulphur-yellow, with tiny black spots marking the end of each nervule on the hind margin; and with a broad black streak, extending along the edge of the wing from the apex to about the end of the subcostal nervule. Underside. Fore wing white, with the costal margin black, becoming yellow towards the apex, which continues yellow as far as the third median nervule. Each nervule is marked by a tiny black spot on the hind margin; these spots are more distinct on the hind wing, which is entirely sulphur-yellow. Exp. 2 | inches. Hab. Kavirondo, Oct. 1889; Kikuyu, Aug. 1889. 5. MYLOTHRIS MACKENZIANA, sp. n. (Plate XVI. fig. 5.) Nearest to M. rueppelli of Koch, but with no yellow at the base of the hind wing ; the orange of the fore wing much more restricted and extending in an oblique patch across the basal third of the discoidal cell to the costal margin ; the latter is black ; there is no apical patch, but the costal margin shows two confluent black spots near the apex, and each nervule is marked with a tiny black spot on the hind margin as far as the first median nervule. Hind wing white, with a tiny black spot at the end of each nervule on the hind margin. |