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marginal area is dark j)urj)]ish grey, lipcoiiiing jialer along the margin beyond an 

 obscure dentated submarginal shade; marginal line dark; fringe whitish. 



Underside of forewings with a thick purplish shade from before middle of inner 

 margin to median vein; this shade shows through on the upper side; marginal third 

 dark purjilish grey, edged inwardly by a curved line; the apex white witli dark 

 s]eckles, j)receded by a fulvous costal blotch; the veins also fulvous: hindwings like 

 the upper surface, but the marginal area beyond the jiurplish band white. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen grey ; fillet whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



One S from I'soga. Kayanga, ISIarch 1899 (Dr. Ansorge). 



Extremely like A. fulvisparsa Warr. superficially, but the position of the two 

 inner lines quite different ; and the hindmargin of forewings is scarcely incised 

 below apex. 



88. Azata diffusata s)). nov. 



Fureii'i iiijx : grey-brown, striated and suffused in ])arts with darker; no distinct 

 lines; but the wings are crossed by alternate belts of lighter and darker brown, the 

 latter being ba.-^al, antemedian, postmedian, and marginal ; the costa with alternate 

 light and dark streaks; cell-sjiot black; fringe dark brown. 



in ii<hv'ni;/n : with central and submarginal dark belts; cell-spot di.stinct. 



Underside paler, more tinged with yellow, with more distinct striations, and 

 traces of darker belts. Head, thorax, avid abdomen lirown. 



Exj)anse of wings : 25 mm. 



One S from '^'akusu, Upper Congo, May 1900 (K. Smith). 



In this species the costa of forewings is curved throughout ; the apex blunt ; 

 hindmargin simjily oblique, not curved, nor emarginate below apex. 



89. Gubaria contaminata sp. nov. 



Foreiidvfjs : <lirtv whitish, in the ¥ smeared and sjieckled with fuscous, in the 

 S whollv suffused with that colour; inner and outer lines distinct, fine; the inner 

 bent below costa. then vertical; the outer, at two-thirds, oblique outwards, angled 

 above vein 6, then nearly straight to two-thirds of inner margin; median shade 

 cloudy and irregular, slightly cmved outwards above and touching the blackish 

 cell-spot ; submarginal line indistinct, indicated by a blackish spot beyond angle of 

 outer line and another between veins 3 and 4; on the hindmargin traces of a curved 

 dark shade from below apex to anal angle, tlie curve touching the black spot between 

 veins 3 and 4 ; fringe fuscous with paler base. 



IHntluirirjs : jialer towards costa, without basal line, and the subniargi)ial shade 

 more plainly marked. 



Underside in ? whitislj, speckled and tinted with yellowish brown, wholly 

 suffused with brownish in the t? ; the lines all shown ; in tlie ? the marginal space, 

 especially in hindwings, and the cell and submedian interval are whiti.sh ; in the 

 forewings of the cT these whitish markings are curtailed and appear as .spots only, 

 the one above vein (i always well marked anil white; fringes brown. Head, thorax, 

 and abdomen all dull fuscous. 



Exjianse of wings : 38 mm. — 42 mm. 



The hindmargin of forewings is generally sliglitly but irregularly incurved below 

 apex; of hindwings with a slight blunt angle at middle and faintly crenulate on 



