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PSYCHE. 



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the tarsi ringed with pale gray. The prim- 

 aries on the upper side are dark brown witli 

 the inner margin and the apical area paler. 

 There is a round black spot in the middle of 

 the cell, and a large reniform spot at the end 

 of the cell margined with black, the black 

 margin in some specimens being partially 

 replaced with wliitish. There is a black 

 basal spot. The wing is traversed by irreg- 

 ular deep black basal, sub-basal, and 

 geminate limbal lines. The outer margin 

 is marked with black subtriangular spots on 

 the interspaces. Tliere is an obscure pale 

 submarginal line interrupted about the 

 middle of the outer margin by a dark brown 

 shade. The entire wing is sprinkled with 

 purplish-blue scales. The secondaries on the 

 upper side are uniformly dark fuscous. Both 

 wings on the under side are fuscous, shining. 

 The margin of the primaries is uniformly 

 marked with pale ochraceous in some speci- 

 mens. The inner margin is paler. Both 

 wings have an obscure discal spot at the end 

 of the cell. Both are crossed by an obscure 

 blackish median band followed by a still 

 more obscure submarginal band. The fringes 

 on the under side are paler and lightly 

 checkered with obscure ochraceous. 



$. The female is marked very much as 

 the male, but in some specimens of the 

 female, the transverse limbal line is margined 

 on both sides by pale bluish-gray. Expanse, 

 65 mm. 



This species seems to be quite common, 

 and I have received numerous specimens 

 from various localities on the West African 

 coast. 



Aedi.\, Hiibn. 



3S. A. costiiniiciila, sp. nov. $. The 

 palpi, front, and collar are brown. The 

 patagia are dark blackish-brown margined 

 with pale brown. The upper side of the 

 thorax is brown. The upper side of the 

 abdomen is fuscous. The lower side of the 



thorax and the abdomen is fuscous. The 

 legs are concolorous, the tarsi ringed with 

 white. The primaries on the upper side are 

 liark cinereous, marked with very dark brown 

 lines and spots. There is a fine dark line at 

 the base on the costa followed by a large 

 subtriangular brown spot, which is succeeded 

 near the middle of the costa by a smaller 

 brown spot. There is an obscure annular 

 mark on the cell. Beyond the base on the 

 inner margin there is a dark brown line 

 margined internally by pale gray. Beyond 

 the cell the wing is traversed by a geminate 

 curved discal line, the ends of the two mem- 

 bers of which nearest the inner margin are 

 very broadly dark brown. Beyond this, there 

 is a finer parallel dark line, which vanishes 

 before it reaches the costa. There is a series 

 of waved dark submarginal markings accen- 

 tuated between the first and second median 

 nervules by a small white dot. There is a 

 small black dot near the outer angle and a 

 dark curved subapical shade beyond which 

 just below the ape.\ are one or two small dark 

 brown subhastate spots. The secondaries 

 are black with a round white spot at the base 

 and a conspicuous white spot at the outer 

 angle. On the under side both wings are 

 dark rufous-brown, paler at the base and on 

 the costa. The primaries have a white spot 

 at the end of the cell, and below it a larger 

 triangular spot, and a few indistinct whitish 

 marks near the outer angle and at the apex 

 on the costa. The secondaries have a whitish 

 band across the base and a conspicuous white 

 spot at the outer angle. Expanse, 30 nun. 



39. A. apicata, sp. nov. $. This 

 species closely resembles the preceding in 

 the general coloration of the body and the 

 under side of the wings, but differs in certain 

 particulars. The primaries are uniformly 

 ashen-brown with one small black spot just 

 beyond the base below the cell and are 

 clouded by a broad oblique brown shade> 

 which runs from the inner margin near the 

 base to the apex, just below which it is exca- 



