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broad creamy band from costal nervure to just below 

 second median branch, wliere it becomes obsolete, but is 

 represented by a greyish nebula on centre of first median 

 branch and reappears as a creamy ochraceous patch on 

 inner margin; secondaries with the base greyish ochraceous, 

 black-spotted ; a central diffused creamy band from costa 

 to inner margin, which is ochreous ; body, thorax black, 

 white-spotted ; alxlomen ochreous with black dorsal line ; 

 wings below paler, ])ands white instead of creamy ; 

 secondaries with basal area bright tawny, with Ijlack spots 

 as in the male ; palpi ochreous : expanse of wings, 3 inches, 

 7 lines. 



S . Anibriz, $ . Cabinda {J. J. Monteiro). B.M. 



^limics the two sexes of Planema Formosa, the new 

 species here descri1)ed from tliesame localities, and is allied 

 to Fseadarra'a Siviidator. 



9. Psmdacra'a Striata. 



?.? Diadehia Firn/tas, Hewitson, Exot. Butt, iv., 

 Diadema, pi. iii., fig. 9 (1868). 



Male. l*rimaries smoky-brown, the nervnres and folds 

 blackish ; iuterno-median area diffusely tawn}^ : a black 

 spot on lower disco-cellular nervure, a second oblicpiely 

 above it within cell ; two obliquely at centre of cell and 

 one near base of interno-median interspace, also a black 

 spot enclosing two whitish dots at base, all these spots 

 with pale tawny zones : secondaries tawny : tlie outer 

 margin, excepting at anal angle broadly smoky-brown : 

 base black-spotted ; body, thorax black, white-spotted ; 

 abdomen ochreous with blackish dorsal line : wings below 

 altogether paler ; the black spots more conspicuous ; 

 secondaries with nine l)lack spots on l)asal area, two of 

 them, enclosing white dots, at base ; palpi ochreous : 

 expanse of wings, 3 inches, 3 lines. 



Ambriz (./. J. Monteiro) ^. B.M. 



A species quite distinct from F. Euri/ta and evidently 

 mimicking Flancma Umhra of Drury ; there is another 

 form, figured l>y Mr. Hewitson (pi. iii., fig. 8), and which is 

 so evidently a mimic of my F. EloMjata ? ., that 1 cannot 

 resist naming it F. Mdaplanevia, n. sp. 



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