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The collection assembled by the American Museum Congo Expe- 

 dition is very limited both in the number of specimens and species, and 

 is by no means representative of this portion of the fauna. Nevertheless, 

 it possesses the highest interest, and it is to be regretted that the gentle- 

 men in charge had not the opportunity to devote more time to careful 

 collecting in the parts which they visited. Small as is the collection, it 

 contains a number of novelties, thus showing how much might have been 

 ascertained had the native collectors been induced to turn their attention 

 to this particular group. In proportion to the number of specimens brought 

 back, the number of species new to science is considerable. There are 

 also some species which, until the present time, have been very inade- 

 quately represented in the collections of the world and which it has been 

 a pleasure to the writer to study and examine. 



Lipteninse 

 Telipna Aurivillius 



(331) 1. Telipna rothioides, new species 



Plate XII, Figure 7, 9 

 9 . Near T. rothi Grose-Smith, but may be distinguished from that species by 

 the facts that on the upper side of the primaries the transverse reddish yellow band 

 does not reach the costa, as it does in T. rothi, that the black marginal border on the 

 upper side of the secondaries is broader than in T. rothi, and by the further fact that 

 on the under side of the secondaries the marginal row of white spots surrounded by 

 black terminates abruptly at vein 5, and does not completely encircle the wing as is 

 the case in T. rothi. There are other minor differences, but those stated will enable the 

 student to discriminate this form from T. rothi, to which, until I had made a critical 

 examination, I was inclined to refer it, and which it otherwise superficially resembles. 



The collection contains two females, both captured at Medje, one 

 in April, the other in July, The latter is designated as the type and is 

 in The American Museum of Natural History in New York ; the former, 

 which is the para type, is in the Holland Collection in the Carnegie Museum 

 in Pittsburgh. 



(332) 2. Telipna medjensis, new species 



Plate XII, Figure S, 9 

 9 . Near T. nyanza Neave (cf. Novitates Zoologicte, 1904, XI, p. 335, PI. i, 

 fig. 19). It differs, however, from the species described and figured by Neave in im- 

 portant particulars. The subapical white spot of the primaries is much larger than 

 in T. nyanza, extending from vein 4 to vein 8, and reappear.'^ conspicuously on the 

 under side of the wing, which is not the case in Neave's species. On the under side 

 this spot is bordered inwardly by a heavy black bar, running from the costa to vein 4, 

 and on the under side this spot is not defined outwardly by dark markings, and the 

 entire apical region beyond it, save immediately on the costa, is immaculate yellowish 



