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angle. On the underside the primaries are marked as on the upperside, 

 but the spot near the submedian nervule is transformed into a somewhat 

 vaguely defined elongated ray, and there is a very narrow white line 

 bordering the cell on its upperside at the base. The secondaries on the 

 lowerside are marked by a broad, white, transverse band, irregularly 

 dentate outwardly, and interrupted in the region of the submedian nerve. 

 Expanse 28 mm. 



The type, which is unique, was taken by Dr. Good in Liberia. 



4. P. mabea* sp. nov. r^. — Upperside of head, thorax and abdomen 

 dark brown; lower side of thorax and abdomen dark brown, covered 

 with grayish hairs; legs concolorous. The primaries on the upperside 

 are dark brown, marked by eight translucent spots, two above each other 

 at the end of the cell: a triangular silvery white spot, with its base resting 

 upon the middle of the submedian nerve; a larger subquadrate spot 

 between the first and second median nervules, with its outer lower angle 

 produced toward the' margin; a smaller subquadrate spot between the 

 second and the third median nervules, and three small subapical spots 

 arranged in a curved series below the costa. The secondaries on the 

 upperside are dark brown with two elliptical translucent white spots 

 beyond the cell separated by the second median nervule. On the under- 

 side the primaries are slightly paler than on the upperside, with the region 

 of the cell darker than the remainder of the wing. The spots of the 

 upperside reappear on the underside. The secondaries are dark fuscous, 

 inclining slightly to reddish on the lowerside; and in addition to the two 

 elliptical spots, which appear on the upperside, there is a circular white 

 spot at the end of the cell, and a somewhat smaller spot before the outer 

 angle midway between the margin and the cell. Expanse 32 mm. 



This species is represented in my collection by a single speci- 

 men coming from the valley of the Ogov6. 



5. P. batangae sp. nov. (^ .—Closely allied to P. picattini, but much larger, 

 and without the basal streak on the inner margin of the primaries, and 

 with the outer margin of the primaries not as deeply excavated before the 

 inner angle, as in that species. On the underside the primaries are much 

 as in P. picanitii, but the secondaries on the underside are wholly differ- 

 ent, being light gray clouded, with very pale fuscous in the region of the 

 anal angle, with the fringes very pale fuscous inclining to whitish. The 

 wing is marked by an irregularly curved series of pale whitish spots, two 

 at the end of the cell, four composing a transverse series, the two outer- 

 most being small, located on either side of the second median nervule 

 near its origin, the third, and large<=t, being separated from the fourth, 

 which is small and linear, by the submedian nerve. Expanse 32 mm. 



Hab. — Batanga, German West Africa. 



• Maliea = Nomen geiUis Africans. 



