186 Mr. Gr. T. Betlnme-Baker on neic 



interspaces. Underside uniform dull pale grey : fore wing 

 with a rather large brown spot at the upper end of the cell, 

 and a subapical brownish band : hind wing without any 

 markings ; antennse, head, and abdomen of the ground-colour 

 of the wings ; thorax thickly irrorated with dark brown. 

 Underside : body and legs concolorous with the wings. 



Expanse of wings lfo inch. 



Hah. Maymyo, Burma. 



XXV. — Descriptions of new Species of Lepidoptera from 

 Africa and the East. By G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. 



Rh opalocera. 

 Lycsenidae. 



LlPTENINJE. 



Alana subrubra, sp. n. 



<$ . Both wings brownish black, with a curved postmedian 

 yellowish stripe, interrupted at the veins ; the secondaries 

 have, in addition, two yellowish costal spots, two similar in 

 the cell, and three on the inner margin. Under surface : 

 primaries as above, with the addition of two yellowish spots 

 in the cell, and beyond the curved postmedian stripe alternate 

 rows of crimson and pale yellowish, two of each. Secondaries 

 with alternate rows of dark crimson and pale yellowish, there 

 being five rows of the latter, which are interrupted at the 

 veins with crimson. 



Expanse 30 mm. 



Hob. Southern Sudan. 



Type in Coll. Joicey. 



Liptenara, gen. nov. 



Eyes glabrous ; antennse short, rather fine, the strongly 

 serrated club commencing with the fifteenth segment and 

 occupying eleven segments; palpi minute, scaled. Neura- 

 tion : primaries with vein 2 from the middle of the cell, 3 

 from well before the lower angle, 4 from the lower angle, 

 5 from the upper angle, 6 from behind the upper angle ; 7, 8, 

 and 9 stalked from well behind 6 ; 10 and 11 from the cell, the 

 latter from behind the middle, i. e. nearer the base. Second- 

 aries with 2 from behind the middle, 3 from well before the 



