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LTuderside similar. Face, palpi, head, tliiira.x, and abdomt'ii all bruwu-black ; 

 pectus, hind half of abdomen below, and whole of the anal segment orange. 

 Expanse of wings : 36 mm. 

 Two (Jcf, two ? ?, from Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa. 



Mesomima gen. no v. 



Foreirinqs : elongate, narrow; the costa straight for three-fonrths, then cnrved; 

 apex blnnt, ronnded and not produced in the (?, slightly prodnced and rectangiilar 

 in the ? ; hindmargin obliijuely curved. 



Hiiuhciiu/s : narrow, the hindmargin strongly ronuded from apex, slightly 

 curved towards anal angle. 



Antennae pectinated in both sexes ; palpi short, pointed ; tongue and frenulum 

 present. Forewings with an elongate fovea lietwceu the submedian fold and the 

 submedian vein, the latter bent downwards at base and sinuous; this fovea is visible, 

 though not nearly so strong, in the ? . 



Neuration : forewings, cell two-tliirds of wing : the subcostal and median veins 

 strongly inbent towards extremity; first median at two-thirds, second close before 

 end, third from end of cell ; radials normal ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from the bend in the 

 subcostal ; 10 and 11 stalked, 11 united with the costal liy a bar. Hindwings with 

 costal only shortly ajiproximated to subcostal ; the tirst suljcostal nervule and 

 second median from well before the ends of cell ; no radial. 



Type : Mesomima a.lUfrom sp. nov. 



Akin to Agirpa ; distinguished by the long fovea, and the absence of a bar 

 between veins 9 and 10. 



198. Mesomima albifrons sji. imv. 



Foreipiiujs : fulvous red ; tlie apical tliird black, containing an olili(|ue variable- 

 shaped white blotch ; the hindmargin black to anal angle. 



Ilind/nnt/s : with hindmargin narrowly Idack, stronger in the ? than in the 

 <S, its inside edge irregularly crenulate or rounded. 



Underside the same. Vertex and antennae black ; face snow-white ; thor.ix 

 fnlvous red ; abdomen cinereous, with white dorsal spots on each segment. 



Expanse of wings : <?, 39 mm. ; ? , 45 mm. 



A pair from Kuilu, French Congo, 1892 (Mocqnerys). 



This sj)ccies is almost an exact facsimile of Paraptijchodcs tenuis I'utler ; 

 that, however, has the costa of forewings black, and the hindmargin of hindwings 

 spotted, not margined with black ; the abdomen yellowish white, with Idackish 

 segmental rings. 



199. Tigridoptera radiolata sp. w\. 



Forewings : dull slaty blue, with the inner margin bull' below the submedian 

 fold for two-thirds from base ; a buff streak beyond cell ; a black spot below costa 

 at base ; two more just beyond, one obliquely below the other, followed by a curved 

 black line which is interrupted at the submedian fidd and marked by a black dot on 

 submedian vein ; a black cell-sput, followed by three curved black lines, the first 

 touching the cell-spot and parallel to the basal line ; the second less curved, the 

 outermost curved outwards at costa ; all three interi-npted at the fold and marked 



