Species of Rhopalocera from Sierra Leone. 225 



orange-red patch in the anal angle, fringes tessellated white 

 and brown. 



Underside. — Primaries : basal two thirds brownish grey, 

 outer third orapge-red, fading into yellowish at the apex and 

 termen and into pale ochreous at the tornus ; the costa is 

 grey, irrorated darkly ; a broad oblique dark dash is beyond 

 the cell in the orange area, followed by a dark, finer, curved 

 line below the apex ; termen black, interrupted in the vein- 

 spaces. Secondaries pale grey, almost entirely covered with 

 diluted vermilion-red, the only grey spaces being below the 

 outer half of the cell, the costa, and the terminal area ; a 

 black dot beyond the middle of the costa and a black point 

 at the base below the cell, a large black spot palely encircled 

 above and below the cell and a slightly larger one closing 

 the cell ; a postmedial very irregular vermilion-red band 

 finely edged on each side with black, beyond which the 

 terminal grey area is irrorated with black. 



Expanse SA mm. 



The species will follow P. lihentina, Hew., but the upper- 

 side will at once separate it from Hewitson's species, and on 

 the under surface the apical area of the primaries is different. 



P sender esia Cafori, sp. n. 



(^ . Both wings brownish black, with black fringes slightly 

 interrupted with whitish. Secondaries with a large deep 

 yellow patch below the cell extending to the inner margin 

 into the anal angle. Underside of both wings blackish grey. 

 Primaries with a subapical red-spotted band of five spots, the 

 first and the last being the smallest. Secondaries with the 

 basal area more or less covered with red patches, with three 

 black spots placed in a triangle above and below and closing 

 the cell, that closing the cell being the largest ; a sub- 

 marginal, very irregular, interrupted red stripe edged laterally 

 with black, the internal edging being heavy. 



Expanse 33 mm. 



Two specimens of this insect were taken by Mr. Cator at 

 Moyamba ; it will come next to P. dehora, but the patch 

 on the upperside of the secondaries will distinguish it, 

 whilst on the under surface it has much more pattern generally 

 and very much more red in the basal area. 



Liptena diver sa, sp. n. 



(J . Both wings blackish grey, with a single black spot in 

 each wing at the upper angle of each cell ; in the secondaries 

 the costa is narrowly whitish. Underside : both wings 

 whitish, with the cell-spots just mentioned prominently 



