2 Hon. L. W. Kothsclilld on 



2. Epiphora rectifascia, sp. n. 



Body blackish brown; antenna, head, and legs clay- 

 colour ; edges of the abdominal segments yellow; metanotum 

 white. 



Upperside of wings dark hair-brown, the distal margin 

 olive, preceded by yellow spots. Fore wing falcate, a sub- 

 basal band white, forming an angle of 90° ; eye-spot as in 

 mythimnia, but longer; a straight white discal band^ sharply 

 defined ; outside the same and along costal margin white 

 dusting. Hind wing with a basal and a discal band, both 

 white and slightly curved ; eye-spot large, incurved between 

 tlie first and second radials; disk outside the band pinkish, 

 as on fore wing, and dusted with white. 



Length of fore wing 80 mm. 



Yakusu, Stanley Falls, Congo [J, L. Roger) ; one male in 

 the Tring Museum. 



3. Imhrasia cethiops^ sp. n. 



Nearest to /. ruhrocostalis, Kirby (1892). 



Upperside of head, thorax, and wings broM-nish black; 

 abdomen fulvous. Fore wing with a trace of a grey discal 

 line ending close to apex in a small costal patch ; ocellus 

 represented by a transparent semicrescent, which is larger 

 than in ruhrocostalis, but very much smaller than in il/?7/orc?i, 

 Kirby (1892), being thinly edged with fulvous. Costal area 

 of hind wing rosy red from base to middle and backwards as 

 far as anterior edge of cell; ocellus consisting of a deep drab 

 outer ring, followed internally by a black ring which encircles 

 an ochraceous iris, bearing a small transparent pupil ; no 

 discal line. 



Underside paler than upper, outer margin of fore wing 

 and the whole hind wing shaded with grey ; on disk of fore 

 wing near margin a straight but indistinct blackish band, the 

 hind wing bearing a likewise blackish shadowy median band 

 and a discal line, the latter reaching costal margin close to 

 angle. 



Cameroons; one male in the Tring Museum. 



4. Imhrasia cytherea lucida^ subs p. n. 



Smaller than South-African c^<Ae?-ca. Resembling yellow 

 specimens of the same, but the head, collar, metanotum, and 

 breast purer rosy red, the basal half or two thirds of the 

 underside washed with rosy red, the brown bands and the 

 ocelli edged with dark grey-brown, which is usually almost 



