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wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 below upper angle ; 7 from angle; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from well below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



4533 a. Prolymnia viola, sp. n. 



($ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey. 

 Fore wing violaceous brown mixed with grey, the basal 

 area greyer ; an oblique subbasal grey line from costa to 

 vein 1 followed by a violaceous brown patch below sub- 

 costal nervure defined on outer side by a grey line ; ante- 

 medial line grey, acutely angled outwards below costa, then 

 obliquely incurved ; reniform figure-of-eight-shaped, defined 

 by whitish ; postmedial line slight, grey, arising at discal fold 

 in which it is bent outwards as a streak, oblique to vein 2, 

 then obliquely incurved ; a dark violaceous patch defined 

 by Avhitish on costa before the subterminal line, quadrate 

 with oblique inner edge; subterminal line greyish, strongly 

 incurved below vein 6 and ending on termen above tornus ; 

 the termen dark defined on inner side by a fine whitish line. 

 Hind wing grey-brown, the cilia whitish at tips towards 

 tornus ; the underside greyer. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Kumasi {Whiteside), 1 (^ type. Exp. 

 30 mm. 



4533 b. Prolymnia atrifera, sp. n. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey. 

 Fore wing grey tinged and thickly irrorated with brown ; 

 subbasal line grey, erect, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial 

 line grey, oblique, bent inwards to costa, another line just 

 before it at costa to submedian fold towards which it 

 diverges ; reniform elliptical, slightly defined by grey and 

 with a lunulate black-brown patch on its inner side arising 

 from costa ; a grey line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; a diflfused blackish fascia from lower angle of cell 

 to subterminal line, before which there is a black-brown 

 patch defined by grey from costa to vein 6, quadrate with 

 oblique inner edge ; subterminal line grey, strongly incurved 

 below vein 6 and ending on termen above tornus ; a 

 terminal series of black striae defined on inner side by a fine 

 waved whitish line. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia 

 greyer; the underside grey tinged and thickly irrorated 

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