Rhopalocera from the Upper Congo. 477 



postmedian row of dark points, the lower ones in obscure 

 indefinite spots ; a subterrainal scalloped dark line ; termen 

 rusty red, expanding inwards at the radial area : secondaries 

 with base dark rusty red, with a small yellowish patch above 

 the cell ; a small dark spot in the cell; postmedian area 

 ochreous, very strongly suffused nearly all over and to the 

 termen with crimson and rusty red, the markings being most 

 obscure ; a trace of a postmedian scalloped row of markings, 

 followed by a definite row of strongly scalloped dashes filled 

 in internally with grey. 



?. Primaries with base and area below the cell tawny 

 almost to the tornus, upper and terminal areas blackish 

 brown ; the usual spots in the cell as in the r?; an irregular, 

 pure white, oblique, broadish dash from the costa beyond the 

 cell to vein 2 ; a subapical curved row of four white dots : 

 secondaries tawny, with base slightly darker, edged with a 

 fine dark strongly serrated line ; a trace of a row of post- 

 median spots ; a subterrainal dark row of strongly scalloped 

 markings, with a dark spot preceding each of the scallops; 

 termen brownish. Underside : primaries entirely dark brown, 

 with the cell-marks just visible and the white markings very 

 prominent : secondaries with base entirely dark to the end of 

 the cell, very irregularly terminated ; beyond this the wing 

 is dirty straw-coloured ; termen brownish to vein 3, pale 

 area irrorated with grey, with a postmedian row of white 

 points, and the upperside scallops showing very slightly 

 through. 



Expanse, J 56, ? 62 mm. 



hah. Mawamba-Makala, Congo Free State, March 1906. 



$ in the Powell-Cotton collection, $ in my collection. 



1 believe I am right in allocating my female to Major 

 Powell- Cotton's male. 



Deistogyna luteostriata, sp. n. 



S . Both wings brown, with pale ochreous stripes and witli 

 the various brown spots and markings edged more or less 

 finely with pale ochreous : primaries with three large cell- 

 spots, with a fourth just beyond the cell ; a broad oblique 

 brown band from the end of the cell to the inner margin 

 before its middle, this band is deeply invaded with pale 

 ochreous about its centre ; beyond this are two large brown 

 spots below vein 2 ; a subterminal row of large inter- 

 nervular spots slightly curved ending at vein 2 : secondaries 

 with a basal and a median pale ochreous oblique stripe j a sub- 

 terminal row of large spots edged broadly with pale ochreous ; 



