Rhopailocera from the Upper Congo, 471 



with a rusty median transverse line and a curved scries of 

 seven or eight ocellated spots as in the fore wings. 



Expanse 46 rntn. 



Hab. Makala, May and June 1906. 



In my collection and that of Major Powell-Cotton. 



Acrcea lumiri, sp. n. 



(^ . Bolh wings deep orange-red, with black margins. 

 Primaries with costa broadly black to the oblique stripe; 

 apex and termen more broadly black ; a broad black stripe 

 beyond the cell connecting the costa v/ith the termen, leaving 

 an enclosed subovate patch of tlie red ground colour ; a fine 

 short inner marginal dash from the base : secondaries with 

 the apex and termen broadly black ; base very restricted 

 du?ky ; a very fine black dot at the end of the cell. Under- 

 side : primaries, basal area pale tawny red, enclosed patch 

 ochreous ; termen with a series of v/edge-shaped pale tawny 

 internervular short dashes and a suffusion of thin tawny 

 irrorations : secondaries ochreous, wdth three small black 

 basal dots ; a median series of four larger ones, a black dot 

 in the cell between these two series, and one beyond the 

 median series ; on the broad black termen a series of semi- 

 ovate whitish internervular spots. 



Expanse 36-41 mm. 



Ilab. Kissegneis to Lumiri, Albert Ed^vard Lake, October. 



In my collection and that of Major Powell-Cotton. 



Near A. alict'a, Sharpe. 



Planema plagioscta, sp. n. 



^, Primaries w'ith base black to the end of the cell, 

 followed by a broad oblique band of orange-rufous occupying 

 the whole of the postmedian area from the costa into the 

 tornus, invading irregularly the basal area, and also in deep 

 serrations the apical and terminal areas, which are blackish 

 brown, the latter rapidly tapering into the tornus : secondaries 

 with base up to the end of the cell very dark rusty brown, 

 with a basal series of about four black spots ; a median series 

 of four, a curved series of eight spots, produced outward by 

 the cell, which is closed by a double spot, and has one spot 

 between it and that in the middle ; postmedian area very 

 broadly whitish, widening tow^ards the tornus, with the veins 

 dark brown ; subterminal and terminal areas brownish. 



Expanse 84 ram. 



Ilab. Beni-Mawambe, Congo Free State, February 1906. 



In the Powell-Cotton collection. 



Allied to Planema aurivilUi, Stgr. 



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