1920] Holland, Lcpidoplera of the Congo 217 



PsEUDERESiA Butler 



(336) 1. Pseuderesia libentina (Hewitson) 



Liptena lihentinn Hewitson, 1S66, Exot. Butt., Ill, PI. Liptena and Pentila, figs. 8, 9. 

 Pseuderesia libentina Aurivillius, 1898, Rhop. ^Ethiop., p. 267. 



A somewhat poorly preserved female taken at Medje about the 

 middle of August is referal^le to this species. The type of P. (Liptena) 

 libentina (Hewitson) is lost, and some years ago, when I consulted the 

 collection of Hewitson in the British Museum, it had been replaced by 

 two specimens of other species. The specimen from Medje, however, 

 agrees so well with Hewitson's figure and other specimens referred to this 

 species in the collections at Pittsburgh that there seems to be no doubt 

 of the correctness of the determination. 



Epitolinse 

 Epitola Westwood 



(337) 1. Epitcla langl, new species 



Plate XII, Figure 10, cf 



cf . The fore wing acuminate at apex, slightly concave below the apex and 

 a little rounded at the lower angle. Hing wing rounded externally, a trifle elongated. 

 Thorax and abdomen black above, pale brown below. On the upper side both wings 

 are dark brown, almost black, feebly revealing in certain lights a deep violet-blue 

 sheen, especially on the disk of the primaries and the inner half of the secondaries. 

 This color only reveals itself in a strong lateral light; in direct vision the wings 

 appear to be almost uniformly dark brown or black. The cilia are concolorous. On 

 the under side both wings are pale smoky brown, except on the inner margin of the 

 primaries near the angle, where they are pale bluish gray, a shade or two lighter 

 than the ground-color of the wings. About the end of the cell of the fore wing there 

 is a vertical row of four small pale spots extending from the costa to the lower angle 

 of the cell, and in the apical area of this wing there is a row of four or five similar 

 spots just before the outer margin extending from the apex to the interval between 

 veins 3 and 4, at the furthest. The hind wings on the lower side have a row of pale 

 basal spots, three in number, cjuite small and faint. These are followed by a series 

 of similar subbasal spots, which are also not conspicuous, but clearly defined. In 

 the middle of the cell is a quadrate darker spot defined before and behind by thin 

 pale lines, which I reckon as belonging to the subbasal series. Crossing the wing 

 from the costa to the inner margin is a curved and twice dislocated line of small pale 

 spots, two of which just at the end of the cell are the most conspicuous. This median 

 row of small light spots is succeeded by a postmedian row, quite regularly curved and 

 extending from the costa to the inner margin, a spot in each intraneural space. This 

 row is in turn succeeded just before the margin by a regular row of submarginal spots 

 somewhat crescentic in form. The cilia on the underside are dark as on the upper 

 side. Expanse, 29 mm. 



The type, which lacks antennis and is in this respect defective, is unique. It 

 was taken at Medje, August 19, 1910 and belongs to The American Museum of 

 Natural Historv. 



