590 l'llAL.KNOIJHli.E. 



184. Alypia langtoni. 

 8 . Hind wing with rounded subbasa] pule yellow patch. 



*193«. Massagidia xenia. (Plate LX XI. fig. 11.) 

 Massagidia xenia, Jord. Seitz, Gr.-Schm. xv. Afr. ii. p. 22 (1914). 



Fore wing with veins 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; hind wing of male 

 with large tuft of hair from inner margin before tornus. 



8 . Head, tegulae, and prothorax crimson, the restof thorax black 



- d with metallic blue; antenna- black ; abdomen black glossed 

 with metallic blue, the anal tuft crimson. Fore wing black 

 glossed with purple-blue, the veins and inner margin streaked with 

 metallic blue ; a yellowish white band defined on inner side by 

 diffused metallic blue from middle of costa to inner margin beyond 

 middle, its inner edge oblique, its outer rather diffused and ex- 

 panding below vein 4 ; cilia white at tips at apex. Hind wing black 

 suffused with purple-blue, the veins of terminal area streaked with 

 metallic blue ; a broad white band from middle of costa to terminal 

 part of inner margin, its outer edge slightly waved ; the tuft of 

 hair on inner margin black ; cilia white at tips at apex. Under- 

 side with purple-blue suffusion at base of wings only. 



g . Fore wing with the band broader especially towards costa ; 

 hind wing with the band yellowish white anil broader towards tornus. 



Sab. Cameboons, Ja li., Bitye (Bates), typef 6, $ m Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp., 6 50, $ 54 millim. 



193 b. Massagidia tenuifascia. 

 • agidia tenuifascia, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 101, pi. xxxvi. f. 12. 



5 . Head and teguke crimson, the 3rd joint of palpi and antennae 

 black ; thorax and abdomen black slightly shot with blue, the 

 terminal segments of abdomen crimson ; pectus in front and fore 

 femora crimson. Fore wing black shot with blue, the veins and 

 submedian fold streaked with brilliant blue ; a rather broad medial 

 white band, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then erect ; 

 cilia white at apex. Hind wing black shut with blue; a medial 

 white band narrowing to inner margin and with its outer edge 

 curved ; cilia white at apex. 



One specimen has veins (J, 7, 8. 9, 10 of fore wing stall 

 Sab. Congo, Kambove Distr. {Heave), '4 £ type. Exp. 

 IS— jd millim. 



200. Ophthalmis lincea, insert : — 



var. , Strand. Mitt. Zool. Mas. Berlin, v. 3, p. 471 (1911). 



Fore wing with the apex white. 

 :; . i. N. Guinea. " 



subsp. hemixantTlia, Jord. .Seitz. Gr.-Schm. xi. Ind.-Austr. ii. p. 19(1912). 

 Similar to bambucina but hind wing with thi I and half 



the width of wing. 



Hab. Tj.m" '• \erty), typef 6 in Col!. Rothschild. 



