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nervures divided by a streak, as in D. limniace. Wings below spotted 

 and streaked as above ; the apex of front wings and the whole of 

 hind wings brownish ochraceous. 



Expanse of wings 3 inches 2| lines. 



Hab. Sula {Wallace). Coll. W. W. Saunders. 



The natural position of this species is between D. australis and 

 D. choaspes. 



Genus Romaleosoma, Blanchard. 



ROMALEOSOMA JANETTA, n. Sp. 



Front wings above blue-black, the interno-basal area yellowish 

 green; a large green- tinted yellow subapical patch. Hind wings green ; 

 yellowish towards apical area ; a red spot between bases of costal 

 and subcostal nervures ; apex to second median branch broadly black, 

 exhibiting a submarginal series of blacker spots, edged externally 

 with green, and continuing to interspace between first and second 

 median branches ; anal margin narrowly black ; internal area brown. 

 Body dark brown. Wings below nearly as in R. cato, but the black 

 spots differently disposed ; both wings plum-coloured at base. 



Expanse of wings 3 inches 8 lines. 



Hab. Fantee, Cape Coast (Ussher). Coll. Swanzy. 



We have this species also in the British Museum ; it comes 

 nearest to R. cato, from which, however, it is readily distinguish- 

 able. 



Genus Harma, Westwood. 



Harma lurida, n. sp. 



d . Wings above golden ochraceous, basal area (including almost 

 the whole of hind wings) orange, tinted and dusted with brown 

 atoms ; the margin narrowly and regularly black-brown. Hind 

 wings with a submarginal series of black spots, nearly touching 

 the brown border, and towards anal angle a discal series of three 

 or four hastate spots ; abdominal margin black-brown. Body 

 brown. Wings below greyish brown, with central dark ferruginous 

 line from third median branch of front to anal angle of hind wings ; 

 the usual discoidal rusty black-edged markings and three pale spots 

 near the base ; outer margin varied with white and bounded inter- 

 nally by a double lunated brown line ; a submarginal series of black 

 and white points. 



Expanse of wings 3 inches. 



Hab. Fantee, Cape Coast (Ussher). Coll. Swanzy. 



Belongs to the Egesta group. 



Genus Aterica, Boisduval. 



ATERICA FELICIA, U. Sp. 



5 . Wings above brown. Front wings with usual ochre-encircled 

 discoidal markings ; basal area terminated by a narrow, strongly 

 arched, and somewhat angulated ochreous streak ; a discal chain- 

 band and submarginal line also ochreous ; three white points near 



