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gray; the lowerside of the abdomen darker and tinged slightly with red- 

 dish. The legs are concolorous, the tibiae of the last pair marked by some 

 pinkish tufted hairs. The primaries have the outer margin produced at 

 the extremity of the third median nervule, and the margin between this 

 point and the outer angle scalloped, or crenulate, in this respect resem- 

 bling Lophiiron zantus H. S., from which it differs, however, in not hav- 

 ing the outer margin excavated below the apex. The primaries on the 

 upperside are slaty-gray, crossed diagonally below the apex from the costa 

 to the middle of the outer margin by a dark brown diagonal band defined 

 on the side of the apex by a narrow paler line. In addition, there are ob- 

 scure blackish markings and waved lines, composing a sub-basal and 

 geminate limbal series. There are also two ver>' small blackish dots, at 

 the end of the cell, between which is a pale brownish space. The sec- 

 ondaries are blackish, with the costal margin near the base testaceous, 

 shining, and the outer margin near the anal angle pale gray. The outer 

 margin is very narrowly whitish. On the underside the primaries are 

 dark reddish gray, clouded with fuliginous on the middle area. There is 

 a geminate limbal series of curved markings on the interspaces termina- 

 ting below the apex and above the outer angle in a bright yellow spot. 

 The secondaries on the underside are reddish gray, with a narrow and 

 obscure curved transmedian and similar geminate submarginal lines, the 

 latter terminating just before the anal angle in three or four salmon-colored 

 spots. Expanse 55 mm. 



Hub. — Batanga, Cameroons, West Africa. 



4. 0. spiritas sp. nov. J^. — The upperside of the body pale olive-gray;, 

 lowerside of body whitish. Legs concolorous. The primaries on the upper- 

 side have the basal and middle area pale olivaceous with the apical area 

 much paler, inclining to whitish. There is a very faint and narrow sub- 

 basal transverse line curved on the costa, succeeded beyond the cell by a. 

 broad, subtriangular, olivaceous spot extending from the costa to the third 

 median nervule, upon which its ape.x terminates. Below it there is an 

 incomplete transverse limbal band of like color, succeeded toward the 

 anal angle by a subquadrate olive spot. The lighter outer area is inter- 

 rupted by a narrow," waved, dark brown, submarginal line, and has some 

 grayish cloudings on the costa and on the outer margin below the apex 

 and above the outer angle. The secondaries are pale smoky-brown, in- 

 terrupted by a still paler, broad, submarginal band, which shades into 

 whitish at the anal angle. On the underside both wings are pale gray, 

 with the outer margins somewhat broadly shaded with darker grayish 

 brown; both are crossed by waved, geminate, transverse, median, and 

 submarginal lines, the space between them being the palest portion of the 

 wing. The primaries have the costa reddish fawn, with the middle and 

 basal area heavily suffused with fuliginous. Expanse 48 mm. 

 Hab. — Kangw^. Valley of the Ogove, West Africa. 



