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Show 72 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, 5th spots being confluent with two of the hind-marginal series, but the 6th quite separate. Another distinctive character of the female is that the cilia are pale yellow, instead of dark brown, on both upperside and underside. 139. CYCLOPIDES MINENI, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 16.) Exp. al. 1 in. 2 | lin. Fuscous ; fore wing with two discocellular and a serpentine series of eight disced small but well-defined transparent spots. Fore wing : discocellular spots terminal, rounded, separate, placed transversely one above the other; discal series of spots flexed inwardly just below costa, then strongly outwardly to near hind margin, and thence directed inwardly to below extremity of cell, so that the spots are most irregularly placed-the second being a little before the first, the third a little beyond both these, the fourth (between radial nervules) not far from hind margin, the fifth almost directly below the third, the sixth directly below the second, the seventh (rounder and rather larger than the rest) close to and only a little beyond the lower discocellular spot, and the eighth (just above submedian nervure) directly below the discocellular spots. Cilia white, with black nervular marks. UNDERSIDE.-H i n d wing, and basicostal area of fore wing including discoidal cell, dull pale yellow. Fore wing : spots as on upperside but all larger; a slight yellowish irroration along hind-marginal border. Hind wing : a discal series of seven very conspicuous and irregularly disposed white spots in dull fuscous borders, of which the first and seventh are largest and before the rest, and the fifth is nearest to hind margin ; two moderate-sized fuscous spots-one near base between costal and subcostal nervures, the other at extremity of discoidal cell. Cilia as on upperside. It is with some doubt that I place this Butterfly in the genus Cyclopides, as the only specimen, taken in Mineni Valley on March 25th, is not in good condition, and its sex cannot be determined. The antenna is rather longer and with a more elongate club than in C. metis (Linn.) and C. malgacha (Boisd.), but the first subcostal nervule in the fore wing runs free to the costal edge, and the tibia of the hind leg bears two pairs of spurs as usual. In general aspect and in the character of the markings this species reminds one of the West-African genus Ceratrichia, and the arrangement of the transparent spots in the fore wing is almost exactly like that in Pamphila ophiusa (Hewits.), from Old Calabar and Gaboon, while the colouring and spotting of the underside of the hind wing somewhat resemble those features in P. collides (Hewits.). Genus P Y R G U S , Westw. 140. P Y R G U S V I N D E X (Cram.). Papilio vindex, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. cccliii. figs. G, H (1781). The only specimen, a male from the Mineni Valley, is of the |