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



68. Epamera bamsi sp. nov. (pi. XV, fig. 66, 67). 



Allied to mirabilis Druce, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7) xi, p. 71 (Sierra 

 Leone (1903). Distinguished by the glossy costal area of the hind 

 wing extended to the black marginal patch. 



$ . Upperside of fore wing as in mirabilis, the blue area being 

 paler. Inner margin fringed with white hair. Hind wing of same 

 blue colour as on fore wing. The glossy-grey costal area touches the 

 lower margin of cell and extends to an anterior black marginal patch 

 which is placed as in mirabilis, but in this species the black patch is 

 divided from the glossy area by the blue ground-colour. Inner margin 

 grey, blackish-brown at the anal angle. A black anal spot edged with 

 metallic-green outwardly, and with an orange-red spot above it. A 

 white submarginal line from vein 2 to the anal spot. 



Underside chalky-white and somewhat differently marked to 

 mirabilis. Fore wing with a postdiscal slightly curved thick brown 

 line from costa to vein 2. Distal area suffused with grey-brown, and 

 midway between the thick line and the margin is a thin line more 

 strongly curved, reaching vein 2. Posterior area below vein 2 glossy, 

 and with a narrow stripe of androconia along the submedian and a darker 

 grey and similar but broader stripe at the base below the submedian. 



Hind wing with a brown postdiscal line almost straight, inter- 

 rupted at vein 2, posteriorly curved to lb and bent upwards to the 

 inner margin. A thinner and slightly curved irregular submarginal 

 line reaching vein 3 ; a thicker admarginal line from vein 7 to 3. A 

 quadrate orange-red spot in 2, its inner edge interrupting the postdiscal 

 line, and with a black spot on its outer half. A thick line of similar 

 colour runs from the lower outer edge of the large spot to a large 

 orange-red anal spot, and is bent at the submedian slightly upwards to 

 the inner margin. A black anal spot as in mirabilis, its upper edge 

 entering the orange-red spot ; some metallic-blue scales along the outer 

 edge of the orange band, and some blackish dusting between the anal 

 spot and vein 2. 



Length of fore wing : 17 mm. 



Habitat. — Bafwaboli, Tshopo Eiver, April, 1920, one S , T. A. 

 Barns. 



69. Epamera frater sp. nov. (pi. XV, figs. 68, 69). 



Closely allied to bamsi and mirabilis Druce. Distinguished from 

 both by possessing the hair tuft on the fore wing below, characteristic 

 of other Epamera. 



