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ANTINEPHELE Holl. 



5. A. achlora sp. nov. Dr. A. G. Butler described a species of this 

 genus under the name of anomala. In the large series of specimens, 

 which I originally referred to Dr. Butler's species, I find eight specimens, 

 males and females, which are uniformly characterized by the entire ab- 

 sence of the greenish lines, which, in Dr. Butler's species, run from the 

 transverse basal band along the costa and below it connecting the sub- 

 basal band with the diagonal subapical band of spots. Furthermore, 

 there is found in all these specimens a series of transverse limbal lines and 

 markings, which do not appear in Dr. Butler's species in the primaries 

 below the green lines of which I have spoken. The body on the under- 

 side in A. anomala is whitish. In all the specimens to which I refer it is 

 reddish. The secondaries on the underside are marked by a series of 

 dark transverse brown lines, most distinct upon the costa. The general 

 facies of the species is that of a darker and more obscurely colored in- 

 sect. Whether a species or a varietal form of A. anoma/a it is hard for me 

 to say, but Mr. Druce, who has examined the series of species in my col- 

 lection, agrees with me that it is well worthy of a name, and hence I have 

 designated it as Antinephele achlora, because of the absence of the green 

 lines on the primaries. Expanse 55 mm. 



6. A. marcida sp. nov. <j\ Allied to A. anomala and A. achlora, but 

 larger. The primaries are ochraceous, with the basal and costal area 

 olive-green, crossed from the costa before the apex by a series of silvery 

 spots, defined outwardly by a broad blackish line, and marked at the apex 

 with a whitish spot. The olive-green basal and costal area is interrupted 

 by a parallel series of dark brown lines. The upperside of the seconda- 

 ries is fuliginous. The primaries on the underside are sooty-brown, .ex- 

 cept on the outer third, where they are reddish brown, and where the 

 spots and lines of the upperside faintly reappear. The secondaries on 

 the underside are reddish brown, with obscure and narrow, transverse, 

 median and geminate, transverse, limbal lines. The margin is broadly 

 darker, especially at the apex. The transverse limbal line has its costal 

 extremity accentuated by a black spot. Expanse 57 mm. 



Hab. Benita, West Africa. 



DIODOSIDA Walk. 



7. D. funebris sp. nov. ^.Allied to D. fumosa Walk., from which it 

 differs in the greater breadth of the primaries, as well as in its different 

 coloration. The upperside of the thorax is dark rosy-brown; the upper- 

 side of the abdomen paler rosy-brown. The underside of the body is 

 throughout bright rosy-brown; the legs concolorous, except the first pair, 

 which have the tibiae and the tarsi margined with white. The primaries 

 on the upperside are dark lilacine-gray, clouded with brown at the base, 

 crossed beyond the base by a curved submarginal band much more 

 sharply curved than that in fumosa. The broad median band, which ap- 

 pears in fumosa, is lacking in this species, and the primaries are crossed 



