new African lleterocera. 569 



biown_, the inner margin being rounded, indented, and waved. 

 Secondaries yellow, Avitli pale red-brown fringes. 



Expanse 28 mm. 



Hab. Lokoja (100 miles north). 



Type in my collection. 



Nearest P. smaragdina, B-B., but basal and terminal 

 reddish areas quite different in shape. 



Parasa tripartita^ sp. n. 



(^ . Head and thorax bright olive-green, the latter with a 

 daik grey central stripe; antenna black; abdomen yellow, 

 with anal segments dark grey ; legs and breast dark greyish 

 brown. Primaries darkish grey, the basal area (obliquely 

 rounded on its posterior and lower edges) divided from the 

 outer area by a broad green oblique stripe right across the 

 wing, and extending rather less broadly along the costa to 

 the base. Secondaries yellow for the basal two-thirds, dark 

 grey at apex and termen to vein 2. 



Expanse 46 mm. 



IJab. Gunual, AV^est Africa. 



Type in ni}^ collection. 



Near P. johannis, Distant, but the stripe of the primaries 

 is different and the secondaries likewise differ. 



Macroplectra rosea, sp. n. 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen buff-colour ; sides of face 

 and palpi bright rose-red. Primaries dull buff-colour, with 

 three longitudinal lines of rosy red, the subcostal one the 

 longest, that in the cell rather shorter, and that below the 

 cell shorter still ; from the middle line there is a slight trace 

 of rosy radiations along the lower radial veins. Secondaries 

 straw-yellow. 



Expanse 22-24 mm. 



Hah. N^Dalla Tando, 2700 feet; Kovember {Ansorge). 



Type in my collection. 



This species is superficially like JSatada arnica^ but the 

 neuratiou is different to that genus. 



Macroplectra JueragJyphicaj sp. n. 



(^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen tawny brown. Primaries 

 pale tawny brown, with a dark median oblique line curved 

 inwardly on the fold ; this line is double up to vein 2, outside 

 this is a large roundish spot of pale chestnut-colour divided 

 by two paler lines and encircled with one also ; above this 

 Ann.dc Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. vii. 38 



