1887.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM TROPICAL AFRICA. 671 



distinguished by the difference in tlie white band on the primaries 

 and the bright carmine colour of the secondaries. Specimens are also 

 in the British Museum from the above locality and Old Calabar. 



Fam. Nyctemerid.e. 

 Alexis, Hiibn. 

 Alexis cunaxa, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 9, ? .) 



Male. Primaries hlack, with the basal half dark yellowish brown, 

 the brown on the outer side sloping off from the end of the cell to near 

 the anal angle on the inner margin, two white spots near the apex. 

 Secondaries dark yellowish brown, the outer margin broadly banded 

 with black from the apex to the anal angle, and much dentated in the 

 middle, a black streak from the base along the inner margin to the 

 anal angle. Underside orange, with all the black margins much 

 narrower and more broken ; four white spots on the primaries, the 

 first three close to the apex, the fourth at the anal angle, and five 

 on the outer margin of the secondaries, three near the apex and two 

 quite small, close to the anal angle. Head, antennae, thorax, and 

 upperside of the abdomen black, the sides of the abdomen with each 

 segment bordered with white, the underside dusky yellow ; the tegulae 

 black, spotted with white ; legs black. The female is rather larger 

 than the male and much paler in colour, and the black margins to the 

 wings are not so wide, and it also has a small black spot below the 

 end of the cell on the secondaries, like A. postlca. Walk ; on the 

 underside it is almost identical with that of the male, the white spots 

 being slightly larger. 



Expanse, S 1| inch, $ If inch. 



Hub. West Africa : Cow^o {Huson- More). 



Terina, Walk. 

 Terina niphanda, n. sp. 



Primaries orange-yellow, slightly hyaline, black at the base round a 

 small white spot ; a black band crossing from beyond the middle of 

 the costal margin to the apex, the band is narrow in the middle ; 

 the apex broadly black, with a white spot ; the outer margin black. 

 Secondaries orange-yellow, the outer margin black, with a white 

 spot at the apex. Thorax white, tegulse black. Abdomen black, 

 with a white spot on each segment down the middle from the 

 base to the anus, which is yellow ; the underside as above. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Hab. West Africa : Congo {Huson-More). 



This species is allied to T. latifascia. Walker, but very distinct. 



Terina euryanassa, n. sp. 



Primaries : the basal half chrome-yellow ; the apical half black, 

 crossed from the costal margin almost to the anal angle by a wide, 

 wliite, slightly hyaline band. Secondaries dark chrome-yellow, 



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