106 LT.-COL. J. M. FAWCETT ON 



lower surface of abdomen. Abdomen fuscous brown above with 

 darker bands, and a short whitish lateral band on first three 

 somites. Fore wing grey marbled with fuscous-brown bands and 

 patches. Two white basal spots followed outwardly by a dark- 

 brown basal band. Three antemedial fuscous lines angled out- 

 wardly on median nervure. A large medial brown patch 

 extending from costa to below vein 2, in the middle of which is 

 a white discocellular spot. Three waved postmedial blackish 

 lines margined outwardly by white and an ochreous band. Sub- 

 marginal and marginal lunular lines, the latter broken up into 

 spots on veins 2, 3, and 4. Cilia chequered black and white on 

 both wings. Hind wing fuscous, with a darker patch at anal 

 angle, and some basal whitish hairs. Underside pale fuscous with 

 indistinct darker bands, the hind wing white on the abdominal 

 margin. 



Habitat. Masongaleni, 23rd April. Expanse 74 mm. 



This form is nearest to Poliana buchholzi Plotz, from West 

 Africa, a figure of which is in the Dublin Museum. 



86. DoVANIA CIRCE, Sp. 11. (PI. I. fig. 1.) 



Description. — J . Head and antenna? ochreous ; dark chocolate 

 bands along sides of palpi ; collar and thorax purplish brown, 

 grizzled with grey, the patagia with white edges. Black bands 

 along sides of thorax meeting on metathorax, which is bright 

 ochreous. Abdomen pale ochreous with brown bands on each 

 somite, these bands ending laterally in a row of dark brown spots. 

 Legs black, banded with ochreous. 



Fore wing greyish ochreous with a slight pinkish suffusion on 

 disc. Three dark antemedial striga? from costa to vein 1. A 

 fourth medial striga from costa to median nervure. Between the 

 3rd and 4th striga? an ochreous band reaching to vein 1, below 

 which are three indistinct striga? to inner margin. A black 

 obliquely curved striga from costa at end of cell on which is 

 placed a white reniform spot. A postmedial inwardly curved 

 line edged outwardly with white, from costa to inner margin, and 

 immediately beyond it an ochreous band outwardly defined by a 

 band of brown spots between the veins, and darkest on the costa. 

 From apex a short black striga curved inwardly. Cilia chequered 

 brown and white. 



Hind wing dark red, paling inwardly to bright ochreous. Anal 

 angle paler with a grey suffusion, with three dark lines across it, 

 the outer one of which is continued submarginally to the costa, 

 beyond which the apical area is dark red-brown. Cilia as in fore 

 wing. 



Habitat. Kedai, 25th November. Expanse 90 mm. 



This species is nearest to Dovania pcecila Rothschild. 



87. Pr^edora marshalli Rothschild. 



Habitat. Kedai, 8th December, J 1 , and 20th April, J k £ . 



