On Two new Muths fi-oni the Upper Niger. 371 



Mecistogaster ornatus. 

 Mecistogaster ornatus, Ramb. Ins. N(5vr. p. 288 (1842). 

 One specimen only. No number attaclied. 



Argia tinctipennis. 

 Argia tindipennh, De Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) xx. p. 396 (1865). 



Two males, without special number. 



I find the name of this species is misprinted tractipennis in 

 my Catalogue of Odonata. 



Argia orichalcea. 



Argia orichalcea, De Selys, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) xx. p. 408 (1865). 

 Agrinn cupreum, var., Hag. Neur. N. Am. pp. 97, 312 (1861). 



( S > 1^0- 20.) " Front hemisphere of eye bright red ; apical 

 half posteriorly black, lower posterior half grey. Epicranium 

 fuscous. Clypeus brown-seneous, same as dorsal aspect of 

 mesepisterna ; notum blue. 



'■' Tergum of abdomen blue, with an annular black fascia at 

 the apex of each tergite. Tergite 8 almost entirely black." 



Two males ; and a very dark-coloured female, possibly not 

 belonging to the same species. 



Argia pulla. 

 Argia pulla, De Seljs, Bull. Acad. Belg. (2) xx. p. 410 (1865). 

 Four specimens, without special number. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XV. 



Fig. 1. Trithemis Tyleri, sp. n., p. 364. 



Fig. 2. Mesotheynis verbenata, Hagen, p. 366. 



Fig. 3. Gomplioides appendiculatus, sp. u., p. 368. a, b, anal appendages. 



Fig. 4. Cyclophylla obscura, sp. n., p. 369. 



LIT. — Descriptions of Two neio Moths collected by J)r. Christy 

 on the tipper Niger. By Emily Mary Sharpe. 



Family Saturniidse. 

 Bunea Christy i^ sp. n. 



Allied to Bunea phcedasa (Drury), but at once distin- 

 guished by the very large ocellus on the fore-wing, which is 

 similar to that on the hind-wing in markings and colour. 



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