( ''^■'"i ) 



">". Episothalma excavata sp. uov. 



Forewimjs : dull olivc-j,'reou, with ilcusr bhicU wavy strigulae, excejit along the 

 costol third, which is clear green ; the costal edge itself with short dark strigae; 

 traces of two curved blackish lines at oue-fourtli and two-fifths, and of a third 

 beyond middle, more waved, and oblicjue outward from inner margin; fringe olive, 

 freckled with black, i)aler in the excision ; an obscure blackish cell-spot. 



Ilind/am/s : darker, more thickly suffused with blackish; a waved aud dentate 

 postmedian line, beyond which the dark suffusion decreases and the wing becomes 

 greener, darkening again towards anal angle; a dark ocelloid cell-spot. 



Underside dark fuscous olive, the costal area of forewings deej) rosy and tUc 

 ajiical region paler green ; hindwings with a broad postmedian fascia and the hind- 

 margin pale green. Vertex, thorax, and basal segments of abdomen olive-green; rest 

 of abdomen suffused with dark fuscous ; face and palpi worn, apparently green with 

 rufons intermixed. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



One cj from Warri, Niger Coast Protectorate, September 1897 (Dr. Roth). 



Distinguished from E. margiimta Warr. from S. Leone, and E. .wmigrisen 

 Warr. from the Congo, by the absence of any marginal drab fascia; but especially 

 by the very deep excavation in the hindmargins of botli wings between veins 4 and 0, 

 more particularly in the hindwings, where the lower projection at vein 4 forms a 

 kind of tail. The fascicles of cilia of antennae are large in proportion to the size of 

 the insect. 



31. Hemithea bella sp. nov. 



Forewings: pale bluish green, overlaid in parts with darker somewhat olive- 

 green scales ; the costa broadly and diflfnsely yellowish, deeper yellow along the 

 edge; this pale costal area is rather thickly sprinkled with red-brown elongated 

 scales; the two lines bluish white, at one-third aud two-thirds, broad aud waved, not 

 lunulate or dentate, as in most other species of the genus ; the simco between them 

 with darker green scales, especially close to each line ; a diffuse thick reddish brown 

 marginal line, intcrrujited at the veins ; the ground-colour immediately before it, 

 especially towards ajiex, mixed with yellow and varied with red-brown scales: fringe 

 yellow, slightly mottled with reddish. 



Jliiidwings : similar, but no first line visible. 



Underside yellowish green, with a brown blotch at the anal angle of forewings 

 and apex of hindwings. Face red-brown ; palj)i paler reddish ; vertex, thorax, aud 

 base of abdomen green, like the wings ; rest of abdomen above reddish. 



Expanse of wings : 24 mm. 



One ? from S. Flores, November 1896, dry season (Everett). 



Like //. in.vilaria Guen. from Borneo in the blotches on the underside, but 

 amply distinguished by the undulating lines, and the admixture of the pale bluish 

 white and yellowish tints. In the hindwings the upper part of the discocellular is 

 slightly raised and thick(Uied, but tiiere is no distinct cell-spot on either wing. 



Heterorachis gen. nov. 

 (Jloscly allieil to Agni/i(u</il<ira Warr., with wliich it agrees more especially in 

 the smallness of the i)aliii and absence of tongue ; but the ? antennae are almost 

 as strongly pectinated as in the (i, while in Agraptochlora ? they are simple, lu 



