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angle just referred to. Secondaries with a curved subterminal 

 line as in the primaries, but double only between veins 4 and 6. 



Exj)anse 44 mm. 



Hab. Makala, Congo Free State : June. 



In the Powell-Cotton collection. 



The under side of this species at once separates it from all others. 



Leptomyrina makala, sp. n. 



Both wings dark brownish grey. Primaries with one or two 

 ocellated spots at the tornus, the pupil blackish, the iris creamy. 

 Secondaries with two similar spots at the anal angle and above 

 them a terminal stripe mai-gined on each side by a fine creamy 

 line interrupted at the veins, a second fine creamy line nearer the 

 cell also interrupted. — Under side warm stone-grey. Primaries 

 with cell closed by a pale brownish dash with white centre, above 

 and beyond this two small brown costal spots ; postmedial stripe 

 brown edged with white, broken slightly below vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line brown, white-edged, curved inversely to the 

 postmedial line, with a black spot in the tornus. Secondaries 

 with a pale brownish dash closing the cell with a white centre, 

 above it below the costal vein and nearer the base a twin spot, 

 another spot at about the centre of the costa ; on the inner 

 margin a spot below the cell-spot ; a very interrupted postmedial 

 line strongly fi'actured below vein 4 ; subterminal line slightly 

 interrupted and excurved, another indefinite line beyond it, a 

 black spot between veins 2 and 3 and another at the lobe, both 

 edged above with orange-yellow. A long brown tail edged with 

 white. 



Expanse 29-31 mm. 



Hah. Makala, Congo Free State. 



In my collection and in that of Major Powell-Cotton. 



Hypocista aroa, sp. n. (Plate IX. fig. 3.) 



o' . Both wings sooty-brown with white areas. Primaries with 

 the centi-al two -thirds of inner margin and fold white extending 

 obliquely to vein 4, above which the white disappears in vapoury 

 smoky-brown. Secondaries almost sooty-black with extreme base 

 brown; the antemedial, medial, and postmedial areas pure white, 

 invading the broad blackish subterminal margin in an acute 

 angle between veins 4 and 5 ; an oval deep black subterminal 

 spot between veins 2 and 4 with two minute white pupils, the 

 upper one smaller than the lower. — Underside. Primaries similar 

 to the upper side, but the white area more defined. Secondaries 

 similar to the upper side, but the white area more restricted and 

 the black oval spot ringed with yellowish, then finely with black,, 

 and again more broadly with silvery; a similar smaller round" 

 spot at the upper apex ; termen with a broad silvery line. 



Expanse 44 mm. 



Hah. Aroa River, British New Guinea. 



Type in my collection. 



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