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the second ; pale ferruginous. Head dull ferruginous. Thorac, 

 greyish, with three inconspicuous ferruginous longitudinal streaks 

 and a reddish orange patch posteriorly. Foreii'inci* dull ferruginous, 

 paler on the dorsal than on the costal half, much speckled and 

 shaded with greyish fuscous scales and streaked with metallic 

 purplish grey, a triocellated dorsal patch before the tornus ; the 

 dorsal half of the wing from near the base to the tornus is minutely 

 reticulated with black wavy lines, and these are concentrated into 

 a somewhat circular patch almost touching the dorsum before the 

 tornus, in which are spots of the ferruginous (almost ochreous) 

 ground-colour, and three or four larger spots of metallic bluish 

 grey, all dark-margined, the more conspicuous of these bluish grey 

 spots lying along its outer edge ; from the base, immediately below 

 the costa, runs a bluish grey streak which is deflected at one-third 

 the wiug-length, terminating on the cell ; beneath it from the base 

 arises a shorter streak of the same colour, almost coterminous with 

 a similar streak arising from near the base of the dorsum, the 

 space between them being h^ownish ; on the outer half of the 

 wing are two conspicuous blue-grey streaks, the first arising below 

 the costa near its middle and tending outwards and downwards 

 towards the tornus, but ending between the ocellated patch and 

 the termen at one-third the wing-breadth, the second commencing 

 on the costa at four-fifths, less oblique than the first, and ending 

 opposite to the middle of the termen above and beyond the apex of 

 the first streak ; between them lies a small spot of the same colour 

 below the costa, and beyond the outer one immediately before the 

 apex is a similar spot almost touching the costa ; several small 

 brownish fuscous spots are visible along the basal two-thirds of the 

 costa, and a brownish shade precedes each of the blue-grey streaks 

 and extends along the termen to the apex (which is less falcate 

 than in the South American representatives of this genus) ; cilia 

 brownish grey with a ferruginous parting line near their base. 

 Ej-p al.j 19 mm. Hindwings reddish orange, speckled around the 

 margins and apex with greyish fuscous, and having a conspicuous 

 ocelloid black patch within the middle of the termen, divided by 

 streaks of the ground-colour, and illuminated along its lower edge 

 by metallic steel-grey spots ; cilia greyish ochreous, spotted with 

 blackish, with a reddish orange parting line along their base. 

 Abdomen orange-ochreous. Leys pale orange-ochreous, hind tarsal 

 joints spotted with black and whitish. 



Type. $ ? . 



Hab. French Congo Kangwe, Ogowe River ; three 

 specimens. 



