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XXXIX. 
A COLLECTION OF LEPIDOPTERA FROM LOKOJA, WEST 
AFRICA. By GEORGE H. CARPENTER, B.Sc., Assistant 
Naturalist, Science and Art Museum, Dublin. 
[Read January 23; Received for Publication January 25; Published 
March 4, 1895.] 
Wuite stationed on duty at Lokoja, at the junction of the River 
Benue with the Niger, Captain C. W. Soden gathered a small 
collection of Lepidoptera, a set of which were secured by the 
Dublin Museum. As this district is less known zoologically than 
many other parts of West Africa, it seems worth while to publish 
a list of the species, especially as the collection includes an un- 
described variety of Huphedra cyparissa, Cram., and new species 
of Xanthopsilopteryx, and of Antheua. 
I would acknowledge kind help from Messrs. Buen Kirby, 
. Hampson, and Heron, when comparing some of these insects with 
the British Museum Collection. 
- The figure after each species indicates the number of specimens. 
RHOPALOCERA. 
NYMPHALIDA. 
KurLe@inz. 
Tirumala petiverana, Dbl. and Hew. (1).—An African species. 
Limnas alcippus, Cram. (9).—A wide-ranging species, Australia to 
West Africa. 
Amauris niavius, L. (3).—A West African butterfly. 
ACRAINA. 
Acrea neobule, Dbl. and Hew. (4).—An interesting species, 
recorded from Abyssinia and the Congo, with its nearest 
relations in Madagascar. 
