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angle a small couical brown mai'k, pointing towards cell-spot, extends to the 

 submedian fold ; cell-spot pyriform, the broad end below, brown with some bluc- 

 gre.y scales at centre ; from vein 4 to below vein 2 au irregularly-edged oval brown 

 blotch, jiarallel to hindmargin ; fringe white, with brown chequering beyond veins. 



Hiiidichiy : with cell-spot like that of forewing, but larger ; the swollen spaces 

 at ends of veins diamond-shaped, filled with blue-grey scales, larger at apex 

 and decreasing to anal angle, where there is a small brown blotch; fringe as in 

 forewings. In both wings the brown markings are slightly mixed with red 

 scales, especially along their edges. 



Underside glossy whitish green ; marginal line and cell-spots brown ; costa 

 pale with brown freckling, the brown bhitch of forewing slightly showing through. 



Face, palpi externally, collar, and front of forelegs red ; vertex and antenual 

 shaft snow-white ; patagia green ; thorax and abdomen greenish white, api)areutly 

 with darker green dorsal spots. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



1 ? from Casamance, Senegambia (Laglaize). 



In Heterorachis rubella Warr., which has, like this insect, an oval brown spot 

 across the median nervules, the hindmargin is regularly curved. 



17. Victoria fuscithorax sjiuc. nov. 



Fomriiig : banded alternately white and green, the green bands themselves 

 also broken up l)y transverse white striae ; base narrowly white, succeeded by 

 a curved band of green, followed by an ecpially broad one of white, marked at 

 middle by three brown dots on the veins ; central fascia broad at costa, very narrow 

 at inner margin, its outer edge sinuate, containing a large oval white cell-mark, 

 with a dull brick-red spot in middle ; the white band following is like the central 

 fascia inverted, narrow at costa and very broad at inner margin, marked by a series 

 of Ijrown dots on veins ; a green marginal border, ending in a point at anal angle, 

 and with the portion above vein 6 displaced basewards, leaving the apex squarely 

 wliite ; a dark lunulate marginal line swollen into black crescents between veins 

 7 and 4 and between veins 1 and 2 , fringe dark grey with whitish base, wholly 

 white at apex and between veins 3 and 4. 



Jlindwing : green striated with white, the base and an ill-defined postmediau 

 band white, this last with a series of dark vein-spots ; marginal line and fringe as 

 in forewing. 



Underside white, with dark marginal lunules beyond tlie cells ; the green 

 markings of upperside only showing through. 



Head, thorax, and nietathoracic tuft dark fuscous-grey ; patagia green internally, 

 white externally ; abdomen whitish, with thick fuscous-grey dorsal crests ; antennae 

 ferruginous, with the shaft fuscous and a fuscous tuft at base ; palpi blackish, with 

 the terminal segment whitish ; legs internally white, lirown in front. 



Expanse of wings : 48 mm. 



1 ¥ from Entebbe, Uganda, March 1;H)2 (Captain Katlniy). 



Subfamily STEUKHINAE. 



I'^. Cosymbia? nitidata spec. nov. 



Fon'iriiK) : glossy, greyisli fli'sh-coloni', with very indistinct markings; a 

 curved grey line, vertical from one-fourth of costa to one-third of inner margin ; 



