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PSYCHE. 



[Febiuary 1S93. 



area bluish grey. The front and the palpi 

 are bright red. The entire body and the 

 entire underside of both wings are uniformly 

 pale vermillion. Expanse, 35 mm. 



31. M. /taema/ica, sp. nov. $ . Uniformly 

 dull reddish, with the costa of the primaries, 

 the upper side of the thorax, the front, and 

 the forelegs brownish. The antennae are 

 whitish. Expanse, 28 mm. 



32- M. haematosphages, sp. nov. $. 

 Antennae white. The upper side of the 

 thorax is dark red. The upper side of the 

 abdomen and of both primaries and second- 

 aries are rich red, with the neurations faintly 

 marked with brown. The outer margins are 

 narrowly fringed with dark brown. The 

 under side of the body is pale red. The 

 under side of the wings are reddish clouded 

 all over except upon the inner margin of the 

 primaries with fuliginous scales. Expanse, 

 35 mm. 



32. M. lutea, sp. nov. $. Uniformly 

 luteous throughout, except that the nervures 

 on the upper side of the primaries and the 

 outer margins of these wings are narrowly 

 marked by greyish lines. Expanse, 35 mm. 



33. M. haematoessa, sp. nov. $. Anten- 

 nae whitish. Head, palpi and upper side of 

 thorax dark brown ; abdomen reddish ochra. 

 ceous. Upper side. The primaries are red 

 thickly irrorated with fuscous. The fringes 

 are fuscous. The wing is ornamented by 

 five moderately large light red spots, one in 

 the middle and another at the end of the cell, 

 two smaller ones without the cell at the 

 origin of the first median nervule. The 

 secondaries are uniformly pale orange red. 

 Under side. The under side is a smoky 

 brown except at the base and inner margin 

 of both wings, which are pale orange-red. 



There are no spots on the under side, but 

 the nerves are dark fuscous and clearly 

 defined upon the ground color. Expanse, 

 45 mm - 



Balacra, Walk. 



34. B. glagoessa, sp. nov. $ . The anten- 

 nae, front, patagiae, the upper side of thorax, 

 and the upper and lower side of abdomen are 

 white. The eyes are black. The top of the 

 head, the pectus, and the inner margins of 

 the trochanters and femora are crimson. 

 The wings are white both above and below 

 and the primaries at the end of the cell and 

 in the intra-neural spaces adjoining the end 

 of the cell are translucent. $. The female 

 is like the male. Expanse, from 42 to 45 mm. 



This magnificent species is apparently 

 quite common on the upper waters of the 

 Ogove" River. 



35. B. rubricincta, sp. nov. $ . The 

 antennae are white. The front and the 

 lower side of the thorax are crimson. The 

 collar is white margined with crimson. The 

 patagiae are crimson margined with white. 

 The thorax and the abdomen are crimson 

 with the segments margined with white 

 on the upper surface. On the under 

 side of the abdomen, which is white, there 

 is a double row of crimson lunular marks, 

 four in each series. The legs are white 

 margined with crimson. The costa of the 

 primaries is narrowly white. The rest of 

 the wing is saffron. There is a white spot 

 near the inner margin upon the sub- 

 median nervule. The intra-neural spaces 

 adjoining the extremity of the cell are semi- 

 diaphanous. The posterior wings are pale 

 crimson narrowly margined with white. 

 The under side of the wings is as the upper 

 side but paler. Expanse, 43 mm. 



