new African SuturuiiJtc. 5 



Upperslde of wings deeper ocliraceous than in acetes, the 

 distal marginal area narrower, the discal line, especially on 

 the fore wing, standing nearer the margin; the veins black 

 from middle of fore wing to outer margin ; the marginal area 

 of fore wing shaded with fuscous both above and beneath, 

 except at hind angle. 



On underside there is an olivaceous black double spot at 

 apex of cell on both wings, the inner spot being large and 

 the outer one small. The clasper (of male) obtuse and the 

 anal tergite flattened, not compressed as in acetes. 



Wassaw district, Gold Coast ; one male in the Tring 

 j\Iuseum. Another male, also from the Gold Coast, in the 

 Leeds Museum ; acetes occurring there too. 



11. Lohohunma Morla)idi\ sp. n. 



As large as L. alinda, Drury (17(S0). 



U|)perside of body and wings maize-yellow, the distal 

 margin except fringe white in male and fuscous in female. 

 On fore -wing a blackish band ju.st outside apex of cell and in 

 female a lunate band on the disk nearer the margin than the 

 cell. Hind wing without bands on upperside in male, there 

 being two bands in female, one from the ocellus to the abdo- 

 minal margin, the other about halfway between cell and outer 

 margin. 



On underside the discal lunules in female further away 

 from the cell than in alinda and the marginal area in both 

 sexes evenly grey, being without brownish blotches ; the 

 central line of lunules crossing the wing at tip of cell, being 

 continuous with the olivaceous black central patch, these 

 lunules large. 



Pemba Island, East Africa {E. Morland) ; one pair in the 

 Tring Museum. 



12. Melanocera parva^ sp. n. 



A little over half the size of .1/. menippe, Westw. (1819). 



Body not washed with white on underside; head and pro- 

 thorax olivaceous brown, there being no white edge to the 

 collar. 



Upperside of wings as red as in menippe, hardly at all 

 speckled with brown along the outer margin; eye-spots as in 

 menippe, but the white lines absent from both wings. 



Underside of fore wing pale red, slightly irrorated with 

 brown before outer margin ; an extremely faint trace of a 

 discal line. Hind wing less clouded with brown than in 



