138 Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker on new 



and costa very much broader in the primaries, and the termen 

 of the secondaries broader and the colour orange-red. On 

 the underside, in addition to the spots enumerated in the ? , 

 the postmedian row is transformed into a straight horizontal 

 row of four spots from the inner margin of the secondaries, 

 and there is an erect postmedian row of three spots in the 

 primaries. 



Expanse 38 mm. 



Hab. Bitje, Cameroons. 



Type in Coll, Joicey. 



Pentila tricolora, sp. n. 



? . Both wings blackish brown, with a. large postmedian 

 orange patch, that in the secondaries taking the form of a 

 very broad band, which irregularly invades the restricted 

 dark base. The pattern of the underside is in the main the 

 same, but the dark areas are spotted with buff colour, and, in 

 addition, the secondaries have a regular marginal series of 

 lunules, and the postmedian area is buff, not orange, outside 

 which in the dark area is a curved series of seven spots. 



Expanse 36 mm. 



Bab. Birje, Cameroons. 



Type in Coll. Joicey. 



Pseuderesia tripunctata, S. & K., and Liptena dcemon, 

 H. H. D. 



Smith & Kirby's species was described from specimens in 

 Staudinger's collection (Rhop. Exot. p. 116, pi. xxv. figs. 3 & 

 4, 1891), and a few years afterwards Staudinger sent me 

 specimens of it. It appears, however, so far as I can trace, 

 to have been unknown in English collections until Bates 

 sent his series home and Mr. H. H. Druce described both 

 sexes under the appropriate name dcemon. I also received 

 specimens of Bates's insects from Bitje, and was able to com- 

 pare them with those from Staudinger's cabinet, and there is 

 no question at all that they are the same species ; up till 

 Mr. Druce's description, however, the female was, I believe, 

 unknown. It belongs to the genus Liptena, as assigned by 

 my friend Mr. Druce; the name tripunctata has, however, 

 many years' priority. 



I have, however, not much doubt that Smith & Kirby's 

 name ought also to sink before Holland's 0. rubrum 

 (' Psyche/ v. p. 425, 1890) ; the number of the red spots on 

 the underside varies in my series, and I have specimens that 

 fit both descriptions. Pseuderesia catalina, S. & K., which 

 is a Liptena, is an exceedingly close ally. 



