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Show 1891.] BUTTERFLIES FROM EASTERN AFRICA. 637 Fore wing. Brown tinged with bronze, and with faint blushes of bright violet. Near the apical portion of the wing a large heart-shaped patch of velvety black. Cilia brown, alternately marked with white, but not very distinctly. Hind wing. Similar to the fore wing, slightly darker at the base. The first median nervule terminates with a fairly long tail, having on either side a bright green ocellus edged round with black, the second one being the smaller of the two and terminating at the end of the submedian nervure. Cilia similar to the fore wing but much more distinct. Underside very distinct from that of H.juba. Fore wing. Ground-colour pearly white ; the basal area, especially just below the discoidal cell, shaded with light brown. Costal margin alternately marked with brownish black, which extends through the cell to the median nervure in bars; near the apical portion is another black bar, separated at the costal margin by a spot of white, which decreases in width to the second median nervule. The submarginal border is black, having a thin white line much dentated, then another edging of black not so distinct, and also six white spots, those near the apex being more distinct and separated from each other by the nervules. Cilia much more distinct than on the upperside. Hind wing. White, with numerous spots and markings near the base, which become thicker towards the inner margin; the end of the cell is marked by an outline of black. Near the costa, about the middle of the wing, is a round spot of black with a large white centre, and at the end of the costal nervure is a figure of 8 outlined with black and having white centres. Straight from the end of the cell aud situated some little way off is a spot, very much pointed towards the hind margin, with two smaller spots, one on either side, all outlined with black, leaving the centres white. Near the hind margin is a submarginal border of white, very finely edged with black lines on the upper and lower sides, leaving white centres which are rather dentated towards the base. Between the first and second median nervules the black is much more distinct, and is relieved by a minute black spot, edged on either side by small specks of brilliant emerald-green, which become of a reddish bronze on the side close to the cilia; there is another spot of the same description, but with less green, between the submedian nervure and the first median nervule; this spot is also rather smaller than the other. Cilia nearly all white. Expanse 1*4 inch. Hab. Sotik, Kavirondo, Sept. 1889. Genus LYC-ENA. L Y C C E N A . E Q U A T O R I A L I S , sp. n. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 5.) Allied to L. palemon, Cram., but easily distinguished by the different shade of blue on the wings, this blue colour being brighter and more distinct than in the species referred to. |