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Show 724 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [NOV. 19, 8. MYCALESIS AURIVILLII, sp. n. (Plate XLII. fig. 2.) Allied to M. saussurei, Dewitz. Above deep olive-brown, basal three-fifths of primaries and basal four-sevenths of secondaries decidedly darker than the rest of the surface ; partly bounding the dark basal area of the primaries is a large oblique 8-shaped patch, its upper portion pale brown, its lower portion pure white, with brownish edging: secondaries having the upper half of the dark basal area bounded externally by a large quadrifid pure white wedge-shaped half-band; fringes whitish between the nervures: body blackish ; antennae black, ringed with white. Under surface with dark basal area as above, bordered externally by a sharply defined belt of cream-colour; external area paler and greyer than above, with a diffused blackish submarginal line and an ill-defined wavy discal line immediately after the ocelli: primaries with six ocelii-the first indistinct, second and fourth small, black, white-pupilled, with dull yellowish iris, third similar, but larger; fifth little more than a white spot, sixth well-defined and much the largest: secondaries with seven ocelli-the first three small, black, white-pupilled, the third with whitish iris, fourth a white spot with sordid edging, fifth to seventh large and conspicuous, the fifth being largest and the sixth and seventh connate ; these ocelli are black, white-pupilled, with yellowish iris: body below dark brown; palpi with a whitish line at the base of the fringes. Expanse of wings 46-48 millim. Euwenzori, 5600 to 9000 feet. I have named this very striking and distinct species in honour of Prof. P. O. C. Aurivillius, of the Eoyal Museum in Stockholm, as a slight acknowledgment of the kindness with which he has frequently assisted m e in the determination of African Lepidoptera. 9. ENOTESIA, sp. Two much worn examples of the species allied to E. ankoma which Dr. Gregory obtained on Mount Kenya; unfortunately their condition is even less satisfactory than in the case of that specimen. Kivata and Kazamaza's, Euwenzori, 6000-8000 feet. 10. NEOCXENYRA GREGORII ? Neoccenyra gregorii, Butler, P. Z. S. 1894, p. 560, pi. xxxvi. fig. 2. Euwenzori, 5600 feet; Kivata, 6000-8000 feet. In these examples the submarginal lines on the under surface are ill-defined and not edged with red ; the lines crossing the wings are very indistinct, almost obliterated; but the ocelli are so exactly those of JV. gregorii that, without perfectly fresh examples, it would be rash to consider these as more than variations. 11. YPTHIMA ITONIA. Ypthima itonia, Hewitson, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. iii. vol. ii. p. 287, pi. 18. fig. 13 (1865). Kampala and Uganda, Feb. 1894. |