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Show 1S91.] FROM SOUTH-WESTERN AFRICA. 87 Head above dull brownish red ; eyes banded anteriorly by a metallic silvery-white stripe, posteriorly by a dull white one ; palpi with terminal joint aud upperside of middle joint brownish red, but beneath dull creamy; antennae ferruginous, tipped with ochre-yellow, beneath tinged with whitish about middle. Abdomen dull brownish red laterally and terminally, beneath pale dull creamy in basal half. In its robust body and produced wings, as well as in its five-branched subcostal nervure of the fore wings, this butterfly exhibits unmistakable signs of belonging to the section of Aphnceus which includes the brilliant A. hutchinsonii, Trim.,and (I believe) A.orcas (Drury), and which Mr. de Niceville has recently (Butt. India &c. iii. p. 347, 1890) proposed to separate generically under the name of Aphncemorpha. The almost ferruginous tint of the upperside, and the entire absence of silvery or other metallic lustre in the spots of the underside, impart a most singular aspect to this species, quite unlike that of any previously known member of the genus l. The position and arrangement, however, of the dark-edged spots on the underside are similar to those found in A. orcas. Unfortunately, the only example contained in Mr. Eriksson's collection is somewhat rubbed and worn. 66. APHNCEUS NATALENSIS (Westw.). 5 (?). Amblypodia natalensis, Westw. Gen. D. Lep. ii. p. 479, pi. lxxv. f. 4 (1852). 8 2 • Aphnceus natalensis, Hewits. 111. D. Lep. p. 62, pi. 2o. ff. 1, 2 (1865). Omaramba-Oamatako (January). Two examples; male and female. 67. APHNCEUS MODESTUS, n. sp. (Plate IX. fig. 16 8-) 8 . Exp. al. 1 in. 2 lin. Like A. natalensis (Westw.) 8, but the violaceous gloss of a deeper tint, inclining to purple. Fore wing : short ochre-yellow transverse band crossing discoidal cell narrower, median band straighter and interiorly wider, outer band narrower and united to median one between 1st and 2nd median nervules. Hind wing : no hind-marginal pale streak preceding black edging-line; anal-angular ochre-yellow spot smaller, and with only very faint indication of two minute blackish spots on its outer edge. UNDERSIDE.-Pale whitish yellow ; the transverse fascia almost of the same tint as the ground-colour, thinly edged with fuscous in fore wing and with pale grey in hind wing, and rather sparsely marked with silvery along their middle. Fore wing : fasciae and other markings arranged as in natalensis, but the former broader, less regular, more sinuate; i M r Hewitson in 1875 described (Ent. M . Mag. xii. p. 39), from a single Bornean example, a large Aphnceus, under the name of A. mxwga, which has a «dark red-brown upperside, " but the underside is noted as having many silver spots " in both wings. |