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submarginal line common to both wings, on the outer margin, 

 composed of white crescent-shaped lunules. On the hind wing 

 there is a dark brown spot near the base, and another, larger, at 

 the end of the cell, and the whole wing is laved with brown, 

 excepting the costal margin which is broadly white. Thorax 

 and abdomen brown above, white beneath. Legs and palpi 

 brown. 



Female. Differs from the male only by being rather paler. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Hab. Bitje, Ja River, Cameroons, 2000 ft., dry season (G. L. 

 Bates). 



Types, Mus. Druce. 



Not closely allied to any with which I am acquainted. 



LlPTENA SUBVARIEGATA ALIQUANTUM, Subsp. 11. (Plate XXXV. 



fig. 5, $ .) 



Liptena subvariegata Smith & Kirbv, Rhop. Exot. i. Lye. Afr. 

 pi. xi. figs. 3,4(1890), c?. 



Male. Differs from the typical form on the under side only. 

 There are on the disk of the hind wing, three clearly defined 

 black spots which are wanting in Cameroon specimens ; one, 

 small, near the base in the cell, another, larger, near the end 

 of the cell, and the third, small, resting on vein 1 near its 

 centre. 



Hab. Upper Kasai district, Congo Free State (P. LandbecJc). 



Type, Mus. Druce. 



The female, which is a very different looking insect from the 

 male, is dull reddish brown on both wings, with dark brown 

 borders, and the fore wing has a subapical white band divided 

 into three by the brown veins. On the under side the fore wing 

 is as on upper side, with the addition of white spots on the 

 costal and outer margins, whilst the hind wing is marked as in 

 the male described above. 



Received along with two males from Upper Kasai district, 

 Congo Free State. 



Liptena d^mon, sp. n. (Plate XXXIII. figs. 10 <? , 11 $ .) 



Male. Upper side uniform dark brown, without markings ; 

 fore wing slightly tinged with purple. Cilia fuscous. Under side 

 dark brown ; apex of fore wing and outer marginal half of hind 

 wing paler and with some faint grey shadings. Hind wing with 

 four orange spots, two in the cell and two in cell 1 near the base, 

 these latter two centred by black dots. Head, thorax, abdomen, 

 and palpi dark brown. Legs dark brown with pale spots. 

 Antennse black with white rings. 



Female. Upper side : fore wing dark brown, discal area from 

 the base bright orange adjoining a large orange patch beyond 

 end of the cell. An orange spot in the centre of the cell. Hind 

 wing uniform dark brown, paler than in fore wing, with a few 

 orange scales dusted over the end of the cell. Under side : fore 



