41 AMATIDJE. 



207 e. Amata basithyris, n. sp. (Plate III. fig. 10.) 



$ . Head and thorax black suffused with purple ; antennae 

 white at tips; frons with a few white scales ; tarsi with the 1st 

 joint white ; abdomen black suffused with metallic blue-green. 

 Fore wing black suffused with purple ; a hyaline spot in end of 

 cell and spot below base of vein 2 ; an elongate spot above vein 6 

 and small spot above 7 ; elongate spots above veins 4 and 3. Hind 

 wing black tinged with purple ; a hyaline patch from below end 

 of cell to inner margin. 



Ah. 1. Frons without white scales ; fore wing sometimes without 

 the spot above vein 7. 



Ah. 2. Similar, but head, thorax, and wings suffused with green. 



Hab. Sierra Leone {Simpson), 1 $ type; Uganda, Koine 1. 

 ( Winchin), 1 2 > Chagwe, Mabira Forest {Neave), 2 $ . Exp. 24- 

 28 millim. 



*207/. Amata nigrobasalis. 



Amata nigrobasalis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 436.(1910), & xix. p. 375, 

 pi. iii. f. 28. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown shot with blue ; 

 antenna} white at tips ; frons white ; coxae and fore legs on inner 

 side white, the hind femora with some white at tips, the tarsi white 

 at base. Fore wing black-brown slightly shot with blue to war. Is 

 base; a quadrate hyaline spot in end of cell, rounded spot below 

 vein 2, and elongate spots above veins 7, 0, 4, 3. Hind wing 

 black-brown; an elliptical hyaline patch on inner area. 



Hub. Gold Coast, Cape Coast Castle, type f 6 in Coll. Roth- 

 schild. Exp. 2S millim. 



*207y. Amata tripunctata. (Plate III. fig. 11.) 

 Syntomis tripunctata, Beth.-Baker, A. M.N.H. (8) yii. p. 530 (1911). 



$. Head, thorax, and abdomen black shot with metallic blue ; 

 antennae white at tips. Fore wing black shot with metallic blue; a 

 minute round hyaline spot in upper part of cell towards extremity, 

 and minute postmedial spots above veins 6 and 3 with a point 

 above vein 4. Hind wing black shot with metallic blue; a minute 

 hyaline postmedial spot above vein 2. 



Hub. N. Angola, NT)alla Tando (Ansorge), type f? hi Coll. 

 Pcthune-Baker. Exp. 20 millim. 



Genus NEERESSA. 



Type. 



Neeressa, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 426 (1905) sayada. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, not reaching beyond the frons; 

 antennas of female simple; hind tibiae with the medial spurs absent. Fore 

 wing long and narrow ; veins 3, 5 shortly stalked, 4 absent ; 6 from well 

 below upper angle; 7, 8, and 11 stalked, 9, 10 absent. Hind wing with 

 vein 3 from angle of cell, 4 absent, 5 from well above angle ; 6, 7 coincident. 



In key differs from Efessa in the fore wing having veins 9, 10 absent, 



