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blackish-brown outer mar^^inal border, terminating abruptly 

 one tliird from the anal an:,'ie. Underside: body and wiiigi 

 yellow ; fore winijs with a black cell-spot ; the outer third of 

 the wing dark slaty grey, the middle partioa of it3 inner 

 n)arji^in extendiu'^ in an angle into the wing. 



Expanse of wings l^-*. inch. 



Gold Coast {\V. II. Johnston) (type in B. M.). 



Belongs to the Ilearseyana group. 



Digama lUhosioidea^ no v. 



(J. Palpi white, with black bands at tiie ends of the last 

 two joints ; antennns sinii»le ; irons ami head white, two 

 black spots in front of the antiunaj, one betwi:en thcin, two on 

 the collar; thorax and fore wings dull ochrcous grey, veins 

 grey and rather prominent ; hind wings and abdomen dark 

 ochreous ; the wings are rather longer than usual, and the 

 example looks like a Lithosid ; there are no markings above 

 or below, except a small black dot at the end of cell of the 

 fore wings below. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches. 



One male, Uills of Terta, Kilimanjaro, E. Africa (typa 

 in B. M.). 



Digama meridionalis, nov. 



(J. Antennje ciliated ; palpi grey, with blackish bands at 

 the ends of the last two joints ; head, thorax, and fore wingj 

 dark giey, much as in the common Indian form ilearseyana^ 

 Moore; two black spots in front of the antennje, one imme- 

 diately behind, two on the collar, and two on the thorax in 

 front : fore wings with black spots on the costa, three inside 

 the cell, one at tiie base, and two beyond it below the cell; 

 discal and medial transverse, brown, trect bands below the 

 cell and an outwardly curved, vt^ry highly dentated, discal, 

 brown band and similar but smaller dentations on the outer 

 margin; abdomen and hind wings yellow, the latter without 

 markings ; the abdomen is more ochreous and darker in colour 

 than the hind wings and has black dor^al spots : the wings 

 are long; fore wing narrow, with the hinder margin curved 

 outwards before the middle. The underside is uniform pale 

 yellow ; win^^s without markings, except a black dot at the 

 end of the cell of the fore wings ; abdomen with lateral black 

 tpots. 



Expanse of wings \^q inch. 



Johannesburg (^4. T. Cooke) ; one m^h. 



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