Rhopalocera from the Upper Congo. All 



with a rusty median transverse line and a curved series of 

 seven or eight ocellated spots as in the fore wings. 



Expanse 46 ram. 



Hah. Makala, May and June 1906. 



In my collection and that of Major Powell-Cotton. 



Acrcea lurniri, sp. n. 



c? . Both wings deep orange-red, with black margins. 

 Primaries with costa broadly black to the oblique stripe; 

 apex and termen more broadly black ; a broad black stripe 

 beyond the ceil connecting the costa with the termen, leaving 

 an enclosed subovate patch of the red ground colour ; a fine 

 short inner marginal dash from the base : secondaries with 

 the apex and termen broadly black ; base very restricted 

 dusky ; a very fine black dot at the end of the cell. Under- 

 side : primaries, basal area pale tawny red, enclosed patcli 

 ochreous ; termen with a series of wedge-shaped pale tawny 

 internervular short dashes and a suffusion of thin tawny 

 irrorations : secondaries ochreous, with three small black 

 basal dots ; a median series of four larger ones, a black dot 

 in the cell between these two series, and one beyond the 

 median series ; on the broad black termen a series of semi- 

 ovate whitish internervular spots. 



Expanse 36-41 mm. 



Hab. Kissegneis to Lumiri, Albert Edward Lake, October. 



In my collection and that of Major Powell-Cotton. 



Near A. alicia, Sharpe. 



Planema plagioscia, sp. n. 



$ . Primaries with base black to the end of the cell, 

 followed by a broad oblique band of orange-rufous occupying 

 the whole of the postmedian area from the costa into the 

 tornus, invading irregularly the basal area, and also in deep 

 serrations the apical and terminal areas, which are blackish 

 brown, the latter rapidly tapering into the tornus : secondaries 

 with base up to the end of the cell very dark rusty brown, 

 with a basal series of about four black spots ; a median series 

 of four, a curved series of eight spots, produced outward by 

 the cell, which is closed by a double spot, and has one spot 

 between it and that in the middle ; postmedian area very 

 broadly whitish, widening towards the tornus, with the veins 

 daik brown ; subterminal and terminal areas brownish. 



Expanse 84 mm. 



llab. Beni-Mawambe, Congo Free State, February K)06. 



In the Powell-Cotton collection. 



Allied to Planema aurivillii, Stgr. 



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