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Show 76 MR. R. TRIMEN ON BUTTERFLIES FROM [Jan. 16, The four males and four females described were taken in the Mineni Valley, from the 7th to the 25th March, settling on bushes in a wooded ravine. 148. PAMPHILA ZENO, Trim. 2 . Pamphila zeno, Trim. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (3) ii. p. 179 (1864); and S.-Afr. Butt. iii. p. 313. n. 345, pi. 12. fig. 2 (1889). Two males, from Christmas Pass and Fevue Fiver respectively. 149. PAMPHILA CHIRALA, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 18, § .) Exp. al. 1 in. 4 lin. 2 • Dull brown ; fore wing with a few transparent whitish spots and one semitransparent yellow spot, hind wing with a suffusion ochre-yellow from base to a little beyond middle; cilia uniform whitish-brown. Fore wing : six transparent spots, viz.: two small ones in discoidal cell, near its extremity, disposed transversely one immediately above the other; two a little beyond and beneath these, only separated from each other by the 2nd median nervule, of which the upper is small and triangular and the lower large and quadrate; and two near costa, midway between discocellular spots and apex, only separated from each other by the 5th subcostal nervule, of which the upper is minute and subquadrate and the lower small and wedge-shaped; immediately above submedian nervure, about middle, a pale dull-yellow wedge-shaped spot, smaller than the largest of the transparent spots, with its narrow end baseward ; from base to before middle a faint suffusion of ochre-yellow. Hind wing : without markings ; ochre-yellow suffusion from base fading away beyond middle and not extending to costa. UNDERSIDE.-Hind wing and apical area of fore wing rather bright yellow, varied with dull ferruginous. Fore wing : transparent spots with a fuscous edging; field of wing fuscous-grey; costa narrowly and hind margin more widely bordered with pale dull reddish; a large subapical costal patch of yellow, beginning at extremity of discoidal cell and outwardly bounded by an oblique ferruginous streak from apex to 3rd median nervule; a hind-marginal series of small indistinct internervular brown spots; inner margin dingy-whitish. Hind wing: from apex to submedian nervure an oblique ferruginous band, narrowed on 3rd median nervule; hind margin evenly bordered by an even rather narrow dull-reddish band, externally brown-spotted as in fore wing, but internally edged with ferruginous; costa diffusedly edged with ferruginous ; a minute subbasal ferruginous spot between costal and subcostal nervules ; an ill-expressed transverse series of three very small similar spots before middle ; and a small ring-spot rather beyond middle, between subcostal nervules. AntennaB dark brown, with thin whitish rings marking the joints, and with outer third of club white. Palpi (except terminal joint) clothed with brown hair above and very densely with yellow hair beneath. This Hesperid, though of small size, resembles in structure the |