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Underside. — Palpi, thorax aud abdomen light reddish gray. Anterior wings 

 dusky from base to beyond middle, then crossed by three transverse bands of 

 obscure red lunules, the uppermost of which on the costa shade into whitish 

 gray. Margin broadly lilacine gray. Posterior wings red, traversed by a narrow 

 median and subuiarginal band of brown. Margin narrowly lilacine gray. 



The female is somewhat darker in color and the markings more 

 obscure than in the male. Exp. of wings S , 46 mm. ; 9 , 50 mm. 

 Described from three males and one female in coll. Holland. 

 Hab. — Benita (Reutlinger). 



9. Oeytoii Retitlingeri n. sp. Plate II. fig. 6. 



Nearly allied in form and coloration to lapygoides, but quite distinct. The 

 primaries are not angulate on the outer margin as in the two preceding species, 

 but are evenly convex, and the internal angle is very slightly produced. 



Upperside. — Palpi, head, thorax and abdomen olivaceous. Anterior wings olive 

 gray, with exceedingly indistinct, transverse bands in the basal area ; an obscure 

 shade of darker olivaceous crosses the wing obliquely from the middle of the 

 costa to the internal angle, and is followed by a broad ashen gray space upon the 

 ai)ical third uninterrupted save by a row of four minute dots situated upon veins 

 3, 4, 5 and 6. A dark triangular subapical spot is situated upon the costa and a 

 faint lunulate shade is situated upon the outer margin just below the apex. The 

 fringe is white, conspicuously checkered by black at the extremities of the veins. 

 Posterior wings uniformly black, with white fringe checkered with black as the 

 anteriors. 



Underside. — Anterior wings reddish gray, broadly shaded with fuliginous on 

 the basal and median area. Two indistinct undulate submarginal lines extend 

 from costa to inner margin. Posterior wings uniformly reddish gray, traversed 

 by narrow and well defined median and submarginal lines. Fringes as on upper 

 side. Palpi grayish white. Thorax, legs and abdomen gray. Expanse of wings 

 42 mm. 



Described from a very fresh and perfect male in coll. Holland. 

 Hab. — Benita (Reutlinger). 



10. Oeyton Eranga* n. sp. Plate II, fig. 7. 



Nearly allied in general appearance to scitula. the outer margin of the pi-inia- 

 ries angulate and not convex. 



Upperside. — Head and thorax dark gray, inclining to ferruginous. Abdomen 

 light fawn. Anterior tvings having at the base a dark transverse shade, succeeded 

 by a band of cinereous, broadest on the cell, bounded internally and externally by 

 lighter lines and traversed through the centre by a geminate line of dark brown. 

 Beyond this a dark shade traversed by two or three darker lines; just before the 

 internal angle a subquadrate dark spot bounded externally by white; abroad 

 l)and of dark brown as in all the previously described species runs diagonal from 

 the costa to the internal angle and is followed by three undulate lines sharply 

 defined upon the light gray apical tract. Of these lines the outermost consists 

 of a dark subapical costal spot, followed by a row of dark lunules bounded in- 

 vvardly by grayish white; the subapical lunular shade appears upon the outer 



* In the Mpongwe dialect "a beauty." 



