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yellowish olay-grey, onter half reddish orange : iiatajcia reddish oranpe ; thorax 



yellowish clay-grey spotted witii orange; abdomen reddish orange. ^Forewinir, 



basal half clayish mouse-grey, apical half ochraeeons orange, nervnres elayisli 

 mouse-grey; costa, basal two-thirds elayisli mouse-grey, ajiical oiu'-lhinl oehraeeous 

 orange ; snbeosta, basal half erimsoii, outer half ochraeeons ; basal two-tifths of inner 

 area (area between vein 1 and liiiulmargiii) scarlet-orange ; an ochraeeons orange 

 l)atch in apex of cell, another lietween vein 1 and origin of vein 3, a greyish cloud 



between snbeosta and vein 3 half-way between apex of cell and termen.^ lliiid- 



wing orange-salmon. 



Ildb. oi 6 6 described : AVassau District, forty-tive miles inland from Sekondi, 

 Gold (Joast. 



The .3 ? ? in Tring Musenm are from Kwahen, Guinea, Juno lOul, Sierra 

 Leone, and Luebo Kassai, Congo, I0U3 (Landbeck). 



C7. Metapiconoma rattrayi sji. nov. 



S. Allied to M. oc/iracea Walk.; antennae black: tursi and tibiae pale monse- 

 grey ; pectus and frons crimson, vertex orange ; tegulae and patagia mouse-grey 

 edged with orange; thorax pale mouse-grey with hind edge and two longitu.linal 



bands orange : abdomen Indian yellow, intersegmental spaces pale slate-n-rev. 



Forewiug, basal three-fourths mouse-grey, onter fourth Indian yellow, costa 

 and nervures pale mouse-grey, basal two-fifths of subcostal crimson, a crimson 

 splash on vein 1 one-third from base, an Indian-yellow patch at ajjex of coll and an 



obliquely transverse row of six such patches between veins 1 and 7. Hindwing 



Indian yellow. 



¥ . Head jiale crimson : thorax as in 6; abdomen orange with pale crimson base 

 and broad intersegmental slate bands. Forewing dark fawn-colour or fawn- 

 brown, an ill-defined orange spot in cell, a hyaline spot ringed with pale orange 

 between veins 1 and 2, and four similar larger ones between veins 3 and 7, basal 

 seventh of subcostal crimson, and basal third of inner area orange and scarlet, a faint 



broad submarginal rufous band. Hindwing, basal third rosy crimson, outer two- 



tliirds orange-buff. 



Length of forewing : 6 20 mm. ; ¥ 31 mm. 



I/a/i. Entebbe, Uganda, September 1901— November 1002 (Captain Uattray), 



66 (type), 1 ?; Kurunga, Kyanika, Bulamwezi, March 30, 1807 (Ur. Ansorge), 



1 6; Wcni, HiverToru, April 31, Iskd (Dr. Ansorgo), 1 6. 



6s. Pseudapiconoma preussi Auriv. 



Psi'iul. itpeciiligera Griinberg is the ¥ of 7'.v,'w/. piriissi Auriv., as is easily seen 

 by the abdomen in the figure, which is described as follows: " each segment from 3-() 

 bright rust-red with fore and hind margin broadly brown-grey." Now none of the 

 other I'sctulaijicoiioma except preussi have the red segments with a double grey 

 border, unA preussi is only known in the 6 sex and speculiyera only in the ? sex. 

 Moreover, />/•««.«.«/ has an outer row of five semiliyaline spots, while the other 66 

 only have two; the fiv^fi sprniliijrrri has six spots ami the second has five, while all 

 other f Pse/ic/apicotioiiHi have only four It is thercfuro (|iiifc> clear that Sheculigera 

 is the ¥ oi preussi. 



