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bright rufous, with tlie costal margin broadly black, the inner 

 margin somewhat broadly margined with black, the outer margin 

 delined with a moderately broad black marginal line. The cilia are 

 rufous. On the cell is a broad oval patch of raised scales, dark 

 brown in colour. On the underside the wings are more obscurely 

 marked, the spots of the^upperside reappearing upon the primaries, 

 but much less sharply defined. The secondaries lack the black 

 costal border and are marked on the disc by a number of minute 

 silvery spots, surrounded by fuscous shadings. Of the spots, the 

 one at the end of the cell is the most conspicuous. 



5 . The female presents the usual broad divergence from the 

 male which is characteristic of the genus, and superficially does not 

 apparently dilfer very widely on the upperside from the female of 

 0. adosus, Mab., an allied species. On the underside, however, it 

 agrees almost absolutely with the male in the style of marking. 



Expanse, cf 26 mm., 5 29 mm. 



Types in coll. Staudinger. 



IJuh. French Congo (Mocqiterys). 



This is one of the most distinctly marked species in the genus, 



140. O. DisTiNCTA, sp. nov. (Plate IV. fig. 16.) 



cj . Very closely allied to 0. clirysauge, Mab., of which it may 

 be a small variety. It differs from the type of 0. clirysauge in 

 having the apex more broadly black, the subapical yellow spots not 

 being confluent with the broad orange-yellow discal tract as in 

 chrysauge. The outer marginal black border is also relatively 

 wider than in clirysauge, and the raised patch of scales on the cell 

 of the secondaries is bright fulvous, not dark brown as in chrymvge, 

 elongated, and not broadly oval as in the latter species. On the 

 underside of the secondaries the outer margin is not so broadly 

 marked with fulvous as in chrysauge. 



Expanse 22 mm. 



Uab. Gaboon {Mocquerys). 



141. O. inops, sp. nov. (Plate IV. figs. 4 c? , 6 ? .) 



cJ . Closely allied to 0. thora, Ploetz, from which it is to be dis- 

 tinguished by the fact that the black margin of the primaries is 

 narrower than in ihora and not irregular inwardly as in iJiora, 

 but uniform, and by the fact that the underside of the secondaries 

 is dark brown over the greater portion of the area, whereas in 

 thora it is light, the outer margin being pale yellow in tJiora, and 

 the basal half pale glaucous clouded here and there with darker 

 brown. 



2 . In the female the spots upon the primaries are broader than 

 in the female of iliora, while on the secondaries the fulvous spot 

 in ihops is smaller than the corresponding spot in ihora. 



I have a long series of both males and females, some of the 

 examples taken in coitu, and it is perfectly plain that the two 

 species are distinct, though superficially ihops and thora show 

 considerable likeness to each other. 



