270 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 



Allied to T. tenera^ Kirb., but differs from all the allied 

 species by the continuous narrow border to the posterior wings. 

 J lab. Sierra Leone (Preuss). 

 In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 



Teriomima modesta. 



Exp. rather over an inch. 



Male. — Upperside uniform smoky brown ; fringes rather 

 paler, spotted neither above nor below. 



Underside clearer brown, with white spots. Anterior wings 

 speckled with white at the base ; two spots in the cell, above 

 the second is the first of a row of two or three subcostal dots, 

 followed by a transverse row of four larger spots ; two sub- 

 marginal rows of spots (four in each) on the upper half of the 

 wing ; below these are two larger ones in a single line ; the 

 first spot of the inner series is preceded by a small subcostal 

 dash ; the second and third spots of the outer series have a 

 small dash on the outside, and the fourth spot of the outer 

 series is the smallest, being reduced to a dash. Posterior 

 wings with two large spots on the costa, two in the cell, and 

 a third (double) closing it ; two more rather irregular series 

 of spots below the cell and a double row of submarginal spots, 

 some of the lower ones of the outer row with smaller adjacent 

 dashes on the outside. 



Antennae black, spotted with white on the underside ; the 

 club long, gradually formed, and tipped with tawny. 



llah. Cameroons [Preuss). 



In the collection of Dr. Staudinger. 



Differs from T. adelgitha^ Ilew., in the unspotted fringes 

 and upper surface. 



Teriomima cordelia. 



Exp. nearly an inch. 



Upperside purplish blue, shading into dusky towards the 

 apex of the anterior wings ; fringes blackish. Thorax clothed 

 with rich purple or green hairs. 



Underside brown, speckled witli tawny at the base and 

 costa of the anterior wings and on the basal half of the pos- 

 terior wings. Anterior wings (on their uj)per two thirds) with 

 two, and posterior wings with three rows of submarginal lines 

 or nearly connected crescents of tawny dusting. 



Head with a tawny line within each eye ; anlennte black, 

 ringed with white ; club gradually formed, tipped with tawny ; 

 logs tawny, banded with brown. 



llab. Cameroons (Preuss) ^ Ogowe {Bohh.). 



