80 New Lepidoptera collected by Mr. T. A. Barns 



48. Telipna hollandi sp. nov. (pi. XIV, figs. 46, 47). 



Allied to medjensis Holl., Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. xliii, 

 p. 214, pi. xii, fig. 8 (1920) (Congo). Distinguished by the broader 

 dark margins and the more marked undersurface. 



<? ? . Upperside very similar to sanguined Ploetz. Fore wing 

 with orange area of same extent as in sanguined, and subapical spots 

 as large as in the ? of this species. Hind wing with marginal border 

 narrower than in sanguined, especially anteriorly. $ with or without, 

 2 with, white marginal spots, but smaller than in sanguinea. Cilia 

 more or less chequered with white as in medjensis. 



Underside with similar markings to medjensis. Fore wing with 

 white subapical patch also edged with black outwardly, a black dis- 

 cocellular bar, and short costal bars in the cell. Hind wing with 

 white area sharply defined and extended above vein 4 to the level of 

 the fifth costal bar or beyond it. Black marginal border broader than 

 in medjensis ; white marginal spots oblong as in this species. 



Length of fore wing : $ 23 mm., 2 26 mm. 



Habitat.— Ituri Forest, N W. Beni, January, 1920, T. A. Barns, 

 one $ (type) ; Upper Kassai District, P. Landbeck, one ? (allotype), 

 and three $ $ . 



49. Pseuderesia neavei sp. nov. (plate XIV, figs. 49, 50). 



Distinguished from any other described species by the steely-blue 

 upper surface. Dedicated to Dr. S. A. Neave, who first took this species. 

 <? . Upperside steely-blue with an admixture of green, and black- 

 brown stripes between the veins. Fore wing with apical area black- 

 brown, shading into the blue. 



Underside of fore wing with grey-black ground-colour, distal area 

 orange from origin of vein 6 to 2, narrowing posteriorly ; costa and a 

 stripe along upper margin of cell orange broken by ground-colour, 

 forming a dark middle costal spot from which proceeds a dark costal 

 line broadening out at the apex and becoming submarginal and thinner 

 to vein 4 ; this line and the dark costal marks are dusted with white. 



Hind wing brick-red with mouse-grey markings. An indistinct costal 

 spot in cellule 8, a larger one with a black centre below it in 7, and a 

 larger distal spot edged outwardly with black, and touching veins 8 

 and 7, a small one at base of 7, a discocellular spot with a black centre 

 between veins 4 and 6, a middle cell spot, not touching upper margin, 

 joined to one with a black centre between base of 2 and the sub- 

 median a series of 7 distal spots, one on inner margin, the second, 





