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Show 1896.] BUTTERFLIES OF THE FAMILY HESPERIID.E. 9 two in cell 1, one, transversely elongated, in cell 2, and a smaller one in cell 3. The secondaries are heavily marked with black on the outer angle, and there is a curved series of three or four small black spots in the subcostal interspaces. Just after the large black spot on the outer angle, the outer margin is lightly touched with whitish. A fine dark marginal line defines the origin of the cilia, which are fuscous upon the upperside. On the underside the primaries are blackish, shading slightly into bluish grey at the base. The translucent spots appear as on the upperside ; the two spots in cell 1 being defined outwardly by two parallel whitish ravs. The secondaries are white, laved with bluish grey at the base. The outer angle is black. The black spots on the subcostal interspaces are as on the upper surface, but more clearly defined upon the white ground. In addition there are two small discal dots in cell 1, and a small black dot on the outer margin near the extremitv of vein 1. The cilia on the underside are white toward the anal angle. Expanse 35 m m. Hab. Gaboon (Moccpierys). Type in collection Staudinger. 18. S. ELIMINATA, sp. nov. (Plate V. fig. 9.) d. The colour of the upperside of the thorax and abdomen is dark fuscous, of the underside yellowish ochraceous. The antennae are black, the legs grey, edged with blackish anteriorly. The primaries on the upperside are fuscous. There are three small confluent subapical spots, a similar small spot on the upper edge of the cell near its end, and two other like spots in cells 2 and 3, of which the former is the larger. Both the subapical series and the discal spots are followed inwardly by dark cloudings. The interspaces just before the margin are marked by obscure darker oblon^ spots. There is a fine dark marginal line. The cilia are fuscous. The secondaries are traversed by a series of obscure dark fuscous transverse median, limbal, and submarginal spots. The spot of the median series located at the end of the cell is annuli-form. The marginal line and cilia are as on the primaries. Both the primaries and secondaries on the underside are clear yellowish ochraceous, with the cilia pale fuscous. The inner margin of the primaries is testaceous. The translucent spots of the upper surface reappear upon the lower side and are narrowly margined with fuscous. Fuscous submarginal and limbal bands traverse the primaries, leaving sagittate spots of the prevailing ground-colour between them on the intra-neural spaces. The secondaries show the transverse series of spots of the upper surface, but more distinctly defined and generally rounded than on the upperside. 2 like the male. Expanse 28-30 m m. Hab. Abvssiuia (Staudinger); Sonialiland (in my collection). This species is labelled in the Staudinger collection by Mons. Mabille as " nei-va, Fabr."' Mons. Mabille has on several occasions in his correspondence with m e insisted upon employing the Fabri- |