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



Underside pattern similar to ceraunia but with darker ground- 

 colour. Fore wing with smaller spots than in ceraunia, apical scaling 

 grey-white. Hind wing with markings grey-white, postdiscal band 

 not sharply defined, narrower than in ceraunia and inner edge more 

 proximal, forming a streak along lower edge of cell but not touching 

 the cell above vein 3, the elongate spot in 5 separated from the lower 

 part by vein 5 ; marginal spot in 6 well defined, and between this 

 and vein 8 the fringe is grey- white. A grey-white marginal patch in 

 3 and 4, slightly connected with postdiscal band. 



Fore wing shorter and more pointed at the apex than in ceraunia. 

 Hind wing shorter and with a slight anal lobe. 



Length of fore wing : 19 mm. 



Habitat. — Penghe, North bank Ituri Kiver, March, 1920, one ? , 

 T. A. Barns. Collected in dense forest. 



55. Epitola viridana sp. nov. (pi. XIV, figs. 58, 59). 



Allied to pinodes Druce, and to mus Suffert, but distinguished by 

 the green markings. 



$ . Upperside with black-brown ground-colour, and dull green 

 markings. Fore wing with some green scaling at base of cell, in the 

 middle, and at the end. Some scattered green scaling below cell at 

 base, a triangular spot below vein 2, a square spot above it placed more 

 dista, scattered green scales in 3 — 5. Hind wing with scattered green 

 scaling in the cell and in cellules lc, 2 — 5. 



Underside pale fuscous-brown. Fore wing black from base to the 

 first submarginal line, and between veins 2 and 5, shading into the 

 ground-colour. Inner margin fuscous-grey, a pale spot in lb, termin- 

 ating the postdiscal line. A pale postdiscal line from costa to vein 2, 

 interrupted by the veins and outwardly curved. A pale submarginal 

 line, slightly waved, from costa to margin at vein 2. A second thinner 

 submarginal line from near apex to margin at vein 2 where it joins the 

 first. Hind wing with markings a little paler than the ground-colour. 

 A curved basal line, a thin indistinct discal line approximating to the 

 basal line anteriorly and posteriorly, a curved and strongly waved post- 

 discal line, a crenulate submedian line at the same distance from the 

 postdiscal line as that is from the discal one, a fine slightly crenulate 

 antemarginal line. 



Length of fore wing : 16 mm. 



Habitat.— South side Ituri Eiver, five days west of Irumu, March, 

 1920, one 3 , T. A. Barns. 



