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53. Eresina toroensis sp. nov. (pi. XIV, figs. 54, 55). 



Found roost commonly in the Mpanga Forest, Toro District of 

 Uganda, by Dr. Neave. 



Allied to corynetes Gr.-Sm. Vein 6 of the fore wing much nearer 

 to the cell than in corynetes. 



S . Similar to corynetes but the patch on the hind wing only 

 reaches vein 4. Underside as in ? but wholly earthy-brown. 



? . Upperside with black ground-colour. Fore wing with a rounded 

 orange patch on the inner margin, reaching vein 4 and not reaching 

 base nor outer angle, and filling up the bases of cellules 2 and 3. Slight 

 greyish costal scaling as in corynetes. Fringes too worn for description. 

 Hind wing with orange area as in corynetes, but diffused over the inner 

 margin. 



Underside greyish-brown finely dusted with black. Fore wing with 

 the orange patch showing through, some greyish-white costal scaling 

 and submarginal black strigae. A black discocellular streak ; two black 

 postdiscal spots in 4 and 5, the lower placed more distal ; two black 

 postdiscal spots in 2 and 3, one below the other. Hind wing with a 

 black subbasal spot in 7 and an angled spot beyond it ; a black dis- 

 cocellular line ; a spot below origin of vein 2 ; a curved series of five 

 postdiscal spots in lc, 2, 4, 5 and 6 ; two indistinct submarginal lines. 



Antennae black ringed with white. Palpi black, white below. 

 Head black, frons edged with white. Thorax black above, greyish 

 below. Legs black banded with white. Abdomen black above, ventral 

 surface grey-brown. ( ? ). 



Habitat. — Ituri Forest, N.W. Beni, January, 1920, one 2 (type). 



In British Museum from Entebbe, January, 1913, $ ? ; Mpanga 

 Forest, Toro, 4,800 feet 13—23, xi. 1913, seventeen $ $ four ? ? ; 

 S.E. Ankole, 4,400-4,800 feet, October, one 3 three ? ? .—All collected 

 by S. A. Neave. 



54. Epitola amnion sp. nov. (pi. XIV, figs. 60, 61). 



Allied to ceraunia Hew., but the female is distinguished by its 

 smaller size, hind wing without blue scaling, and fore wing with only 

 a streak of blue in the submedian interspace. 



2 . Upperside black-brown. Fore wing with a white spot at end 

 of cell and another outside the cell in 4 ; a curved postdiscal series of 

 white spots in 2 — 6, the one in 2 the larger, the one in 4 the smaller ; 

 a pale blue basal streak on the submedian fold. Hind wing unicoloros, 

 paler in the discal area, with a few scattered pale blue scales. 



