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Show 18h8.] FROM EQUATORIAL AFRICA. 59 species, but the arguments brought forward in favour of their identity are not conclusive. Mr. Trimen regards all three as varieties of M. safitza, and adduces the fact that Hopffer himself marked his M. eusirus as synonymous with M. safitza, as conclusive evidence ; unfortunately naturalists are but human, and it is astonishing what a difference abundant material will make in a man's views as to the distinctness of species. 10. SAMANTA PERSPICUA. Mycalesis perspicua, Trimen, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1873, p. 104, pi. 1. fig. 3. Tobbo, 21st May, 1883. 11. YPTHIMA PUPILLARIS, sp. n. Allied to Y. doleta ; smoky brown ; wings above with pale external borders bounded internally by a darker stripe and traversed by two slender marginal lines ; primaries with a large oval bipupillated ocellus, with blue pupils and yellow (dead-golden) iris, beyond the cell ; secondaries with a smaller unipupillated ocellus on first median interspace and a very small double ocellus near anal angle : Under surface apparently similarly coloured but greyer, but actually (when seen through a lens) sandy brown, densely striated with dark olive-brown, with a stripe towards outer margin and a submarginal line dark brown ; a marginal black line ; fringe tipped with dark brown ; ocellus of primaries rather brighter than above : secondaries with three ocelli, the first subcostal near apex ; the second and third small, rounded, answering to those of the upper surface, but more equal in size and shape ; the subanal ocellus, however, is bipupillated. Expanse of wings, 3 38 millim., 2 36 millim. $. " O n the River Dangu," 14th June; 3 • " Ganyese Tambu (Sandel)," 15th June, 1883. The female is a little paler and greyer than the male. 12. YPTHIMA SIMPLICIA. Ypthima simplicia, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. vol. xviii. p. 481 (1876). Wadelai, 30th July, 1885 ; 9th April, 1887. Originally received from xVbyssinia. 13. YPTHIMA ITONIA. Ypthima itonia, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, vol. ii. p. 287. n. 11, pi. 18. fig. 13 (1865). Kangasi, 17th July; Stazione Bauri, September 1883. Only two much-damaged examples were obtained. 14. YPTHIMA ALBIDA, sp. n. Wings above silvery white ; primaries with the base, costa, apical area, and external border suffused with smoky greyish brown ; a partially obscured oval bipupillated subapical ocellus of the ordinary type : secondaries with a rather broad brown external border tapering |
