new African Lepidoptera. 435 



dorsum narrowly black, laterally and ventrally chrome- 

 yellow. Primaries black, inner margin broadly bright 

 crimson-red for over three-quarters, base black, with a cream 

 dot at the roots ; a very oblique broadish cream band across 

 the antemedian and median areas, interrupted in the former 

 area by the black ground ; a small subcostal creamy spot in 

 the middle of the costa ; a large, subovate, oblique, post- 

 median, creamy patch; a metallic leaden-blue line edges the 

 main markings : secondaries bright crimson-red, with termen 

 broadly deep black, very slightly tapering, narrower near the 

 anal angle. 



Expanse 48 mm. 



Hub. Makala, April and June. 



In my collection and that of Major Powell- Cotton. 



Rhanidophora septipunctata, sp. n. 



S . Head and thorax yellow ; palpi black, with restricted 

 yellow bases ; abdomen rose-pink. Both wings dove-grey: 

 primaries darker than secondaries, with three white cell- 

 spots, that in the middle and tlie one at the end of the cell 

 being large ; a white spot above, the last of the three, a small 

 white spot between the first and second but below the cell, 

 a white spot on the inner margin at a quarter from the base, 

 and another just beyond the middle, all the spots more or 

 less round : secondaries with a pale pink suffusion at the 

 base, in the cell, and along the inner margin. 



Expanse 59 mm. 



Hab. Makala-Beni, July. 



In the Powell-Cotton collection. 



Geometridap. 

 Negla iturina, sp. n. 



cJ ? . Head and thorax whitish, spotted with black ; abdo- 

 men yellowish, with a row of black spots on each side of the 

 dorsum. Both wings white, spotted with blackish ; pri- 

 maries with a subbasal row of three spots, the largest being 

 that on the costa ; beyond this are two larger costal spots ; 

 a postmedian waved row of six or seven spots ; a large apical 

 black area, terminating abruptly below vein 4, below this the 

 terminal blackish area is continued, the white ground deeply 

 invading it at the veins ; cell closed with an oval spot : 

 secondaries with a spot closing the cell ; a postmedian. 

 curved row of seven roundish spots ; termen broadly blackish 

 in deep scallops, caused by the white ground invading deeply 



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