

1910.] FROM TROPICAL WEST AFRICA. 359 



inner marginal area broadly ochreous ; apical area with the veins 

 and interspaces dusted with rows of ochreous scales. Hind wing : 

 ground-colour blackish brown, thickly dusted with reddish 

 ochreous scales over the cellular and basal areas, and arising from 

 the cell are a number of narrow ochreous lines composed of 

 dusted scales, which before they reach the margin become divided 

 into two. The basal area supports ten deep black spots, most of 

 which are distinctly ringed with ochreous ; one is placed at the 

 extreme base, two are above the cell, two in the cell, another 

 partly closing the cell, and four below. Palpi black. Head 

 black, with the eyes white-ringed. Abdomen ochreous fuscous, 

 with a black spot on each segment below. Legs black with white 

 spots. Antennae black. 



Female. Differs from the male in that the subapical band on the 

 fore wing is the same shade of reddish ochreous as the inner 

 marginal area and the hind wing. On the fore wing the ochreous 

 area is more compact, and does not extend so near to the base, 

 and on the hind wing the dark apical area is much broader and 

 the conspicuous dusting of the male is absent, whilst the veins 

 for some distance into the dark area are ochreous, those in the 

 male being fuscous well into the ochreous area. On the under 

 side it differs only from that of the male by the less extensive 

 ochreous area and the concolorous subapical band on the fore 

 wing. 



Expanse, male 24 inches, female 2^ inches. 



Hob. Upper Kasai district, Congo Free State (P. Landbeck). 



Types, Mus. Druce. 



I thought this might be M. darwinia Butl.,* the figure of which 

 appears to be a female, but it is entirely without the yellow fascia 

 on the hind wing below described by Dr. Butler. The type of 

 M. darwinia is now in the Tring Museum. 



Although obviously Acrseine in appearance I am unable to find 

 any species in that group which it is exactly like. 



Pseuderesia minium, sp. n. (Plate XXXIII. figs. 6 cf , 7 $ .) 



Male. Upper side : fore wing uniform dark blackish brown, 

 without markings. Hind wing bright orange-red with the apex 

 and outer margin broadly and evenly dark brown ; the inner 

 margin is narrowly and evenly dark brown. The basal area 

 has several elongate dark brown markings, some of which are 

 confluent. Cilia whitish, brown at the termination of the nervules. 

 Under side : both wings silvery brown, with the central areas 

 shading to dark brown. Fore wing with a brown mark in the 

 middle of the cell and another, larger, at the end. Hind wing 

 with several small red spots near the base, and a curved 

 discal band of five bright red spots, commencing on the costa 

 and reaching almost to the inner margin. Thorax and abdo- 

 men black above, paler below. Legs black, with white spots. 



*. Mimacrma darwinia Butl. Lep.Ex. p. 104, pi. 38. fig - . 8 (1872). Sex not stated. 



