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Show 1881.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M SOCOTRA. 179 One rather worn female. The species is of the size and general form of Belenois abyssinica ; but its pattern and coloration seem to ally it to the species of Synchloe ; the possession of a male specimen would satisfactorily decide whether or not it is an unusually aberrant Belenois. HESPERIID^E. H E S P E R I A J U C U N D A , sp. n. (Plate XVIII. fig. 8.) (Nos. 751 S, 766 ? .) Dull blackish-brown: primaries shot with shining green and bronzy brown towards the base; edge of costal margin yellow towards the base, but white towards the apex ; fringe of outer margin snow-white : secondaries with costal border and anal angle velvety black; the hairy clothing of the basal area greenish grey, of the abdominal fold pale testaceous ; a patch of ochreous hair just above the anal angle; fringe with an ochreous basal line, externally snow-white to the first median branch, where it changes to bright reddish orange: head and thorax very dark green ; the palpi (excepting their terminal joint and external margin,. which are velvety black), a spot at the base of each antenna, and the back of the head bright reddish orange ; abdomen dull black, with greyish hind margins to the segments, anus surrounded by reddish-orange hairs. Wings below greyish brown : primaries with a large diffused purplish-black basal patch ; costal margin orange towards the base, but afterwards white ; an abbreviated line on the sub-median vein, a second on the inner margin, and the fringe white : secondaries witli the fringe as above; a triangular spot within the end of the cell, a large elongated patch enclosing a black spot on the interno-niedian interspace, and an interrupted squamose streak running upwards towards the apex from its external extremity orange; a circular spot near the outer margin on the interno-median interspace, and a second at anal angle confluent with the fringe, reddish orange : pectus blackish ; femora and tibiae streaked with pale buff and clothed with long reddish-orange hairs, venter black at the sides, with two or three small orange dots; a broad central longitudinal reddish-orange stripe. Expanse of wings, $ 2 inches 6 lines, 2 2 inches 9 lines. Three males and one female. The female specimen is rather paler than the male ; but this may be partly due to fading. The species comes nearest to H. taranis. HETEROCERA. LlTHOSIIDiE. DEIOPEIA PULCHELLA (NO. 756). Tinea pulchella, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. 2, p. 884, no. 349(1766). Two examples, one of which has the scarlet markings on the primaries larger than usual. 12* |