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Show 84 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES [Jan. 20, Genus D E U D O R I X , Hewits. 59. D E U D O R I X ANTALUS (Hopff.). Dipsas antalus, Hopff. loc. cit. 1855, p. 641. n. 15 ; and op. cit. p. 400, t. xxv. ff. 7-9 [$ ] (1862). Omrora (August). One female example. 60. DEUDORIX LICINIA (Mabille). c?. Thecla licinia, Mab. Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1878, p. 83 ; Grandid. Hist. Phys. etc. Madag. pi. 30 A. ff. 5, ha (1885). 8 2 • Deudorix dinochares, H. G. Smith, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5th ser. xix. p. 64. n. 7 (1887). Omrora (August), Ehanda (August-September), and Okavango River (December). Four male examples. The Okavango specimen and one of the two Ehanda examples are normal and full-sized, but the other two are considerably smaller, and the Omrora individual has the orange-red ground-colour yellower in tint than usual, and the fuscous border of the fore wings narrower. 61. DEUDORIX OBSCURATA, n. sp. (Plate IX. fig. 13 8 •) Exp. al. 1 in. 2 lin. 8 . Glossy lilacine-blue, with costa of both wings and apical of fore wing pale dull brownish grey ; in fore wing, between costa and 1st median nervule, a very large tipper-median black patch. Fore wing: inner margin prominently convex before middle; black patch irrorated with blue in discoidal cell and between 1st and 2nd median nervules ; costal border of brownish grey very narrow as far as outer edge of black patch ; very broad apical hind-marginal brownish grey, abruptly terminating on 1st median nervule. Hind wing: costal subbasal sexual badge large, shining, whitish, fuscous-edgcd, roughly ovate; costal border of brownish grey moderately wide as far as apex, not extending below 2nd subcostal nervule; inner-marginal brownish-grey border suffused with whitish, not extending above submedian nervure ; a fine black hind-marginal bounding line, more apparent interiorly ; linear black tail at extremity of 1st median nervule white-tipped, rather long; lobe at anal angle not large, bearing a black spot with some metallic-blue scales. Cilia brownish grey, mixed slightly with white near posterior angle of fore wing and in hind wing, in which latter white predominates at and near anal augle. UNDERSIDE.-Pale yellowish grey ; ordinary terminal discocellular, discal, and submarginal markings not darker than the ground-colour, but defined by very slender and inconspicuous whitish bounding lines ; no subbasal spots in either wing. Fore wing: just below median nervure and origin of its 1st nervule a conspicuous longitudinal black mark (mostly hidden by convex prominence of costa of hind wing), being the upper part of a large shining whitish black-edged subpyriform inner-marginal sexual badge, corresponding with that on costa of hind wing on the upperside. Hind wing: black spot on anal-angular lobe and a |