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that on the vertex is black. Thorax: the mesothorax covered 
with confluent punctures, having a central slightly raised carma, 
on each side of which is a deep elongate groove, not quite ex- 
tending to the anterior margin; wings of a blackish-brown, and 
having a bright violet iridescence. Abdomen subpetiolate, the 
second segment ferruginous, shining, punctured at the base; the 
sides and the margins of the four apical segments ciliated with 
glittering pale pubescence ; beneath, the second segment covered 
with large distant punctures, the margins of the segments cili- 
ated with pale glittering pubescence. 
Hab. West Africa (Whydah). 
112. Muritua CyPaARISSA. B.M. 
Male. Length 5 lines.—Head and thorax black, eyes notched, 
abdomen ferruginous ; the head and thorax above densely 
clothed with short bright orange pubescence ; the tegulz covered 
with, and a line beneath the wings of similar pubescence ; wings 
yellow-hyaline at the base, the apical half dark fuscous; the 
four apical segments of the abdomen black ; the apical margins 
of all the segments ciliated with short pale glittering pubescence. 
Hab. West Africa (Whydah). 
113. Muritita CHARAXUS. B.M. 
Male. Length 8 lines.—Black, the eyes emarginate ; head 
and thorax rugose, thinly covered with a scattered black pubes- 
cence ; the mesothorax having a central longitudinal shinmg 
carina and a deep elongate groove on each side not reaching the 
anterior margin; the scutellum elevated, its apex having a small 
elevated shining tubercle; the metathorax covered with large 
shallow punctures, channeled in the middle, its lateral margins 
having a raised shining carina; the wings deep brown, with a 
bright violet iridesecence. Abdomen: the second segment ob- 
securely ferruginous, shining and finely punctured, the punctures 
distant on the middle of the second segment, the third having a 
yellowish-white fascia, more or less mterrupted, on its apical 
margin. 
Hab. Sierra Leone. (The Rev. D. F. Morgan.) 
114. Muritua ALECTO. B.M. 
Male. Length 73 lines.—Black, the eyes emargimate, the 
mandibles having a ferruginous spot near their tips. The pro- 
thorax, metathorax and scutellum ferruginous ; the latter ele- 
vated, and having a grooved carina above, not reaching the base ; 
the mesothorax rugose, and having a central longitudinal carina 
