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Hind wing blackish brown, with golden-yellow apical patch 

 formed about as tlic wliite patch of leHco/>er(t. 



Fort' wiiij^ Ijfiu'ath dark l)r()\vii, soincwliat varied with paler 

 l)r(»\vn proxiinally; reiiiforin hirj^e, (hirU, iiiuurdiatcly followed 

 by an ill-dttined ol)lique ochreous band which ends in a rather 

 larjje tornal patch ; a slinhtly curved dark postniedian line, 

 crossing the ochnous band but not reaching hind inar^^in ; 

 a few minute ochreous costal dots between j)o>tmedian and 

 subtern-.inal ; subtenninal distinct from costa to R', sli^jhtly 

 bent outwards at SC" ; terminal area pale from costa to IV. 

 Hind winj? beneath dark brown with darker discoidal spot, 

 curved median line, thick but ill-defined postmediau line 

 (placed rather further from the median than in leucopera, 

 at least posteriorly), and light ochreous-brown apical patch 

 corresponding to the yellow patch of up|)crside, but contain- 

 ing dark brown irroration and crenulate terminal line 

 tliickened into dots on the folds. 



Bitje, Ja River, Cameroons, 2000 feet, April-^Iay 1912, 

 wet season (G. L. Bates). 



May be placed next to intercisa. Walk., but probably 

 really much nearer leucopera, in spite of the considerable 

 superficial diHereuces. 



22. Achoea jamesoni, sp. n, 



$ . — 64 mm. 



Head and body light brown, mixed (especially abdomen) 

 with grey. 



Fore wing rather light brown, from base nearly to [)ost- 

 median line with violaceous reflections; antemedian dark 

 line indistinct, from scarcely beyond one-fourth costa, 

 somewhat oblique outwards to cell, then less oblique, slightly 

 sinuate to hind margin at about 8 mm. from base ; reniform 

 chiefly indicated by dark spots at its anterior and posterior 

 extremity ; median shade almost obsolete, excurved beyond 

 cell ; a white costal patch near apex, clouded, except at its 

 edges, with light tawny brown, relatively larger and narrower 

 than that of maLillii, Saalni., its distal edge markedly 

 indented at SC* ; pijstmedian line crenulate, arising from 

 ))osterior margin of costal patch, more nearly parallel with 

 ternien than in mabilUi. sliiihtly bordered with whitish and 

 ferruginous scales distally, a rather larger, ferruginous, 

 white-edged spot developing at fold; no subterminal line ; 

 termen very narrowly shaded with pale violaceous except at 

 extremities ; faint traces of dark terminal line. 



Hind wing grey-brown, darkest in distal part, especially 



