Rhopahcera from the Upper Congo. 475 



wliite patch at the apex : secondaries with a broad blackish 

 termen, with a slight bronzj-green hue in certain liglits. 

 Underside : both wings dirty greenish : primaries with a 

 short, very pale bluish costal dasli at the base, with two spots 

 across the middle of the cell outlined with blackish, and a 

 larger similar spot at the end of the cell ; a trace of a curved 

 postmedian stripe between vein 4 and the inner margin ; apex 

 with a small wliite patch : secondaries with two darkly 

 encircled spots across the middle of the cell, the lower one at 

 times obscure; inner marginal area with yellowish tawny 

 hairs. 



Expanse 72 mm. 



Hab. Makala, Congo Free State, June 1906. 



In my collection and that of Major Powell-Ootton. 



Euryphene cottoniy sp. n. 



($ . Both wings blackish brown and tawny in alternate 

 stripes and spotted rows : primaries with three cell-spots (a 

 small one at the base, a large twin spot in the middle, a large 

 black one at the end), between each of them is a waved 

 black line ; beyond the cell is a large, indefinite, irregular 

 spot confluent with an obliquely receding black-spotted row, 

 which is succeeded by a slightly oblique broad dark baud 

 interrupted at the veins and angled to the costa about vein 6 ; 

 from here to the termen the wing is blackish brown, with a 

 subterminal row of large blackish spots surrounded with 

 tawny : secondaries with the base more or less dark ; a 

 ligure-8 spot in the cell, which is closed by a narrow oblong- 

 dash with tawny centre ; a broad median tawny band, 

 followed by a broad curved dark band tapering somewhat 

 towards the inner margin ; a postmedian curved row of large 

 black spots broadly surrounded with tawny ; a broadish, 

 definite, black, scalloped, subterminal line; termen broadly 

 dusky tawny. Underside : both wings pale ochreous 

 brownish, with all the markings of the upperside more or less 

 repeated in a modiiied form : in the secondaries the post- 

 median row of large spots is replaced by a scries of tine dark 

 dashes. 



? . Both wings paler brown, Avith the tawny marks 

 replaced by dusky ochreous, whilst in the primaries the 

 oblique postmedian tawny band is replaced by a similar con- 

 spicuous oblique band of clear pale ochreous, and in the 

 secondaries the outer median area is very broadly and indefi- 

 nitely of the same colour. 



Expanse, '(S GO, ? 74 nun. 



