6tf Sir G. F. Hamp.son on new 



whitish tinged with reJ-brown. Fore wing with the basal area 

 rut'i)us irrorated with red-brown, the rest o£ wing white tinged 

 with olive ; a small black discoidal spot ; the carved postmedial 

 line indicated by a faint olive shade on its inner side. Hind 

 wing white tinged with olive; a diffused black patch on basal 

 area ; a small black discoidal spot ; a diffused curved olive post- 

 medial line. Underside white thickly irrorated with black-brown ; 

 hind wing with small black discoidal spot and diffused curved dark 

 postmedial line. 



Hub. Gold Coast, Kumasi {Sanders), 1 c? ; S. Nigeeia, 

 Ilesha {Humfrej/), 1 6 tv|)e. I^.rp. 14- IG mm. 



(13 b) Pi/rii/ifi roxf'itincfa, sp. n. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with pale red- 

 brown. Fore wing white suffused with pale red-brown except 

 towards the costa and t^rmen ; a curved white antemedial line 

 with a patch tinged with rose-pink before it except at costa and 

 inner margin ; a .slight red-brown discoidal spot; a sinuous white _ 

 postmedial line with a rose-pink shade beyond it. Hind wing 

 Avhite suffused with pale red-brown except at termen ; a curved 

 white antemedial line ; a white postmedial line excurved at middle 

 and above inner margin and with rose-pink shade be^'ond it. 

 Undersiilc white tinged with rufous ; hind wing with curved white 

 postmedial line. 



Hub. Bn. C. Africa, :Mt. Mlanje {Xeave), 1 S type. Exp. 



14 mm. 



(16 J) Pi/nills ti/rialis, sp. n. 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish oehreous, the head, 

 .thorax, and two basal segments of abdomen suffused with purplish 

 crimson ; palpi, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen brownish 

 oehreous. Fore wing brownish oclu-eous sutt'used with purplish 

 crimson and slightly irrorated with dark brown ; a fine curved 

 white antemedial line ; a small black discoidal spot : a white post- 

 medial line, excurved at middle; cilia white and blackish. Hind 

 wing brownish oehreous strongly suffused with purplish crimson 

 and iiTorated with black ; indistinct curved white ante- and po.st- 

 medial lines delined by ])lack scales ; a blackish terminal line ; cilia 

 blackish. Underside oehreous suffused and irrorated with brown. 

 Hab. Gold Coast, Bibianaha (SpiirreU), 1 9 type. Exp. 



15 mm. 



(16<?) Pt/rrtUs plicenicealis, sp. n. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen oehreous brown with a crimson 

 band ou 2nd segment of abdomen ; ]mlpi with some dark brown at 

 sides ; fore legs suffused with dark brown. Fore wing silky 

 oehreous brown ; the costal area in'orated Avith some dark scales, 

 the medial part of costa with series of black points and the 

 terminal part of costa glossy black ; two indistinct crimson sub- 



