1910.] FROM TROPICAL WEST AFRICA. 3(59 



ochreous discal band crossed by the brown nervules, commencing 

 beyond the cell below vein 6 and extending to vein 1, above which 

 it reaches almost to the base. Cilia distinctly chequered dark 

 brown and cream. Hind wing ochreous, costal half and outer 

 and inner margins rather narrowly dark brown ; the veins 

 crossing the ochreous area are not brown as in fore wing. Cilia 

 cream, faintly brown at the termination of the nervules. Under 

 side : fore wing much as in the preceding L. niveus, but the 

 discal area yellow suffused with grey scales from the base and 

 between the nervules, a double brown marking closing the cell. 

 Hind wing much as in L. niveus, but the discal area cream and 

 all the spots darker brown. Legs and palpi dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen brown above, dark fuscous below. 



Expanse 1 T 7 ^ inch. 



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

 Bates). 



Type, Mus. Druce. 



Seems to be allied to L. reutlingeri Holland *. by the colour 

 of the upper surface. 



Lachnocnema magna. 



Lachnocuema magna Auriv. Ent. Ticlskr. xvi. p. 209 (1895). 



Arrugia umbra Grose Smith, Rhop. Exot. iii. Afr. Lye. p. 128, 

 pi. 27. figs. 5, 6 (1901). 



Female. Differs from the male only by being slightly paler 

 on both surfaces and by the outer margin of the fore wing being 

 considerably more convex. 



Uab. Bitje, Ja river, Cameroons, 2000 ft., wet and thy 

 seasons (G. L. Bates) ; upper Kasai district, Congo Free State 

 (P. Landbeclc). 



Mr. Bates obtained a large series of this insect in the 

 Cameroons which scarcely vary. 



Rapala akgelita. 



Deudorix angelita Suffert, Iris, xvii. p. 54 (1904). 



Deudorix schultzii Auriv. Arkiv Zool. iii. no. 19. p. 2, figs. 37, 

 38 (1907). 



Deudoryx mdkala Bethune- Baker, P. Z. S. 1908. p. Ill, pi. ix. 

 fig. 4. 



Hab. Bitje. Ja river, Cameroons, 2000 ft., wet and dry seasons 

 (G. L. Bates)'. 



An excellent photograph of Suffrrt's type (a female) in the 

 Berlin Museum shows that the above synonymy is correct. 



Diopetes kedassa, sp. n. (Plate XXXIY. fig. 13, o*0 



Male. Closely allied to 1). catalla Karsch t- Upper side 

 less brilliant in hue, and with the apical and outer marginal 



* Lachnoaiema reutlingeri Holland, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. spv. 6, vol. x. p. 28G 

 (1892). 



f Diopetes catalla Karsch, Ent. Na'chr. xxi. p. 318 (189o). 



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