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2, 3, Under side ochreous white ; fore wing with black discoidal 

 lunule ; both wings with broad black subterminal band. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. 30 mill. Type in B.M. 



(6) Catephia virescens, n. sp. 



? . Head, thorax, and abdomen olive-green mixed with black ; 

 pectus with some purplish hair in front. Forewing pale brown 

 tinged with olive-green and suffused with black especially on basal 

 area, inner medial area and subapical area ; an indistinct black 

 streak in submedian fold ; the antemedial line black defined by pale 

 brown on inner side, minutely waved, oblique and bent inwards 

 between submedian fold and vein 1 ; orbicular small, indistinct ; 

 reniform, large pale with blackish outline and somewhat constricted 

 at middle ; postmedial line black, minutely waved, very oblique from 

 costa to vein 4, then inwardly oblique and with whitish point in 

 submedian fold ; traces of a dentate subterminal line ; a black spot 

 in submedian fold ; cilia brownish intersected with black. Hind- 

 wing black with antemedial white patch from subcostal nervure to 

 submedian fold ; cilia white, blackish at apex, below middle and at 

 tornus. Under side brownish at base, with ill-defined white medial 

 band, the terminal half black with a terminal series of brownish 

 points. 



Hab. Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exjj. 30 mill. Type in B.M. 



(7) Catephia dulcistbiga, Wlk. xv. 1811 (1858). 



Hab. West Africa, Niger Kiver ; British Central Africa, Zomba ; 

 Natal, Durban (Leigh) ; Cape Colony ; India ; Burma. Exp. 

 28 mill. 



(8) Catephia bipuncta, n. sp. 



2 . Dark reddish brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen irrorated 

 with white ; tarsal joints ringed with white. Forewing with sub- 

 basal black line from costa to submedian fold edged by pale brown 

 on outer side ; a subbasal black point in submedian fold ; a black 

 antemedial line from costa to vein 1 defined by brownish on inner 

 side and slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; the postmedial 

 line sinuous, bent inwards to costa and excurved at middle ; a ter- 

 minal series of small black lunules of which two below apex are 

 more prominent and subterminal, the series crossed at middle by an 

 oblique black shade from below costa. Hindwing black with ante- 

 medial white patch between subcostal nervure and vein 1 ; the cilia 

 and termen white below apex. Under side of forewing with medial 



