526 Colonel C. Swinboe o% the Geometriilie of 



cell anastomosing shortly with 12 ; hind-wings with veins 3 and 4 and 

 6 and 7 from the angles. 



Type, ]ju7-piirana, nov. 

 Hemicopsis purpuraria, nov. 



^ . Antennae red-brown ; palpi brown above ochreous beneath ; 

 head and body dark purplish-brown, abdomen at the sides crimson ; 

 wings paler brown and more purplish, with darker patches here and 

 there, and with abroad band, straight in itself but with sinuous sides, 

 from a little above the middle of the abdominal margin of hind-wings 

 to the costa of fore-wings before the apex ; here it is angled to the 

 outer margin below the apex, leaving a pale space there, and then 

 runs right down the outer border, more or less represented on both 

 wings ; the under-side is crimson-red, irrorated in parts with purple 

 atoms; a blackish spot at the end of the cell on the hind-wings; a 

 blackish thin straight and even band from the middle of the abdo- 

 minal margin of hind-wings to the apex of fore-wings, the space 

 outside it on the fore-wings being purplish. 



Expanse of wings \-^tj inches. 



Hah. Tonga, Brit. E. Africa {Hollis). 

 Genus Eupagia, Walker, xx, 216 (1860). 



EUPAGIA NIGERRIMA, nov. 



^ . Antennte, head, body, and fore-wings deep black ; fore-wings 

 with a very fine discal line, whitish and with some white points, 

 and some very minute white points Ijetween it and the outer margin ; 

 hind-wings dull pale black, palest towards costa; a dull black rather 

 sinuous discal line ; under-side of a pale sordid blackish-brown, with 

 the discal lines visible. 



Expanse of wings IxV inches. 



Hah. Abyssinia (Degeoi). 

 Genus GoNODONTis, Hiibn., Verz., p. 287 (1818). 



GONODONTIS AZELINARIA, nov. 



9 . Palpi, head, thorax, and fore-wings dark fawn-colour irrorated 

 with brown; a thin brown outwardly much curved ante-medial 

 siniious line ; four black spots in the form of a square at the end 

 of the cell with a black dot close below them ; a discal brown sinuous 

 line, rather close to the margin, inwardly broadly suffused with 

 brownish fawn-colour, the suffusion in a lesser degree and paler out- 

 side the line ; hind- wings pale grey irrorated with pale brown atoms, 



