286 Dr. W. J. Holland on some neio 



Expanse of wings 24 niillim. 



llah. Og'ovc Valley, Gaboon, W. Africa. 



Type in Collection llolland. 



Genus Lachnocnema, Trim. 

 4. Lachnocnema ReutUngerlj sp. n. 



? . Body and wings dark brown above. Both wings are 

 crossed beyond the cell by a broad, oblique, macular band of 

 ])ale yellow curving inwardly. The ends of the cells are 

 marked by heavy black spots. Upon the underside the 

 markings are as in L. bibulus, Fabr., but larger, darker, and 

 more distinctly defined upon the much paler ground-colour, 

 except the median macular band of the secondaries, in which 

 the spots are paler and red in tone, and heavily margined 

 with silver externally. 



Expan.se of wings 44 millim. 



Ilab. Benita. 



Type in Collection Holland. 



This species may be readily distinguished from all others 

 of the genus by its large size and the pale yellow bands of 

 the upper surface. 



Genus Hypolyc^na, Felder. 



5. Ili/poli/ccena rava, sp. n.- 



? . Upperside dark brown, with an oval orange spot below 

 the cell in the primaries, and the outer third of the secon- 

 daries from below the outer to the anal angle likewise orange. 

 The margin of the secondaries is dark brown and the orange 

 area is interrupted by a small circular brown spot just beyond 

 the tail, which is black and minutely tipped with white. 

 The underside has the markings somewhat as in //. eleala, 

 Hew., which are characteristic of a large group of African 

 species belonging to this and allied genera. 



Expanse of wings 28 millim, 



Bab. Kangwe, Ogove River, \Y. Africa. 



Type in Collection Holland. 



Genus Pseudaletis, Druce. 



6. Pseudaletis nigra, sp. n. 



? . The upper surface is black. On the primaries there is 

 a small white spot at the end of the cell and a moderately 

 broad white subapical band rurming from before the middle 



