1910.] FROM TROPICAL WEST AFRICA* 371 



scales. Cilia of both wings brown. Under side : fore wing 

 white ; apical area crossed by three indistinct pale brown bands 

 originating on the costal margin and converging to the angle 

 where they become linear. The cell from its base is wholly 

 pale brown excepting towards the end, where it is crossed by 

 a white bar. Outer margin and cilia pale brown. Hind wing 

 white, apical half crossed by four indistinct brown lines which 

 converge near the margin on vein 2 and are thence angled to 

 the anal margin. Anal angle yellow, supporting two black 

 spots on the margin, one on either side of vein 1, also a few 

 metallic greyish scales. Thorax and abdomen brown above, 

 yellow below. Legs and front of head yellow. Anal tuft 

 blackish brown. Tails brown. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



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

 Bates). 



Type, Mus. Druce. 



Nearest to P. antimachus Staud.*" 



Epamera neavei, sp. n. (Plate XXXV. fig. 4, J •) 



Male. Upper side rich cerulean blue, colour of E. loon Hew. 

 Fore wing with apical half . deep black. Hind wing with apex 

 very narrowly and evenly black ; large shining patch dark grey. 

 Lobe black, crowned with orange and dusted with rich blue 

 scales. Cilia of fore wing fuscous, of hind wing pure white. 

 Tail on vein 1, which is much longer than usual in this genus, 

 pure white; tail on vein 2 black, tipped with white. Under 

 side pure white. Fore wing with apex and outer margin rather 

 narrowly shaded with brown ; a faint submarginal brown line 

 followed by a clearly defined brown line ; the inner margin is 

 broadly shining white and has attached to its edge a large tuft 

 of long blackish hairs. Cilia white, tipped with black. Hind 

 wing with a black anteciliary line followed by two brown lines 

 as described in the fore wing, the innermost angled above the 

 lobe to the inner margin. Near the margin between veins 2 

 and 3 is a large black spot surrounded by orange, which orange is 

 continued in a very irregular line to the inner margin. Lobe 

 black, inwardly bordered with red on which are dusted violet 

 scales. Cilia pure white. Thorax and abdomen rich blue above ; 

 white below. Legs white ; the tarsi spotted with black. An- 

 tenna black and white spotted ; palpi white with black tips. 

 Head bright orange. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Hab. Bitje, Ja river, Cameroons, 2000 ft. (G. L. Bates). 



Type, Mus. Druce. 



This beautiful insect is not nearly allied to any with which I 

 am acquainted, but by the shape of the wings and by" the 

 possession of the long tail on vein 1 of the hind wing it seems 



* Fseudaletis antimachus Staud. Exot. Schm. i. p. 276, pi. 95 (1888). 



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