1920] Holland, Lepidoptera of the Congo 321 



curved series of siibmarginal light spots, a trifle larger than those forming the sub- 

 basal series; the two nearest the inner margin behind the tornvis being the largest and 

 becoming somewhat diffuse, forming an irregular light greenish gray blotch near the 

 inner angle of the fore wing. The fringes are dark brown, checkered with light green- 

 ish graj'. The hind wings are of the same color as the fore wings but a trifle darker in 

 the middle, in the region of the cell and toward the costa; there are traces on the upper 

 side, very indistinct, of a transverse median and postmedian lighter band of spots; 

 the fringes of the hind margin are checkered dark and pale greenish gray, as is the 

 case in the fore wing. On the under side the ground-color is a slightly paler tint 

 uf the same color which prevails on the upper side. The markings of the fore wing 

 are very indistinct, consisting merely of a submarginal transverse shade a little be- 

 fore the apex, and a light gray spot near the tornus, the fringes being checkered 

 and appearing exactly as on the upper side. The hind wing, which is strongly 

 produced upward about the middle of the costa, has this tooth-like projection and 

 the adjacent area dark brown, followed by a median and postmedian series of sub- 

 limulate pale grayish spots, between which bands the area is somewhat lighter than 

 the remainder of the wing. The inner margin of the hind wing is uniformly pale 

 from the base to the anal angle, with the fringes on the under side checkered dark 

 and light, as is the case with the fore wing. 



9 . The female is almost twice the expanse of the male, the fore wings are 

 strongly produced at the apex, the costa being strongly curved and the outer margin 

 slightly excavated below the apex. All the markings which appear upon the wings of 

 the male reappear upon the wings of the female, but somewhat more accentuated. 

 On the under side in the female the apical and outer margin of the area of the fore wing 

 is darker than in the male, and there is a difTuse paler spot at the apical extremity 

 contrasting with the darker surrounding areas. The hind wing is marked on the 

 under side in case of the female very much as the wing of the male, but the mesial 

 band, defined internally and externally by sublunulate markings, is paler than in the 

 male sex, giving the appearance of a broad grayish green fascia. The fringes both on 

 the upper and under side of the hind wing of the female are more distinctly marked 

 than in the male sex, consisting of a series of sublunulate spots defined inwardly 

 and outwardly by fine dark lines. Expanse of male, 32-34 mm.; female, 64 mm. 



The type is a beautifully preserved male in perfect condition, col- 

 lected at Efulen, Cameroon, by Dr. H. L. Weber, on November 29, 1913. 

 The female allotype is an equally perfect specimen collected by Rev. 

 A. I. Good at Lolodorf, Cameroon, October 19, 1915. The paratypes are 

 a male collected by Dr. H. L. Weber at Efulen, Cameroon, November 4, 

 1912, and the damaged and rubbed specimen taken by the Lang-Chapin 

 ExpecHtion at Medje, August 24, 1910. The three former are in the 

 Carnegie Museum, the latter is in the American Museum of Natural 

 History. 



I described in 1894 three species under the genus Leipoxais, which 

 1 erected for their reception, and the foregoing species is strictly congen- 

 eric with these. Dr. Aurivillius has since then described several 

 species of Leipoxais, but upon perusal of his descriptions I cannot 



