Neio Lepidoptera collected by Mr- T. A. Barns 99 



Habitat. — Avakubi, Ituri Eiver, April, 1920, 5 $ 8 ; Penghe, N. 

 bank Ituri Eiver, March, one 3 . 



78. Oboronia rutshurensis sp. nov. (pi. XVI, fig. 96). 



Allied to plurilimbata Karsch, but distinguished from all known 

 forms by the blue basal area on the fore wing and the black veins 

 of the hind wing. 



? . Upperside white. Fore wing with broad distal black marginal 

 area, basal area pale blue to vein 2, its edge at right angles to inner 

 margin ; costa more or less narrowly brown. Hind wing with veins 

 brownish-black. Cellules la, lb, and 7 dusted with grey. A small 

 black distal spot in 7, a large brownish-black marginal patch in 6, 

 a postdiscal line of four spots in 2 — 5, the spots in 2 and 3 more 

 proximal than the others. A blackish-brown marginal border bearing 

 five proximally rounded spots faintly outlined with white. Some 

 greyish dusting at base of cell and in distal part of cellules 2 and 3. 



Underside white, with markings very similar to those of plurilim- 

 bata. Fore wing with a thin postdiscal line of six short pale-brown 

 streaks, nearly parallel with outer margin. A submarginal thin pale 

 brown line parallel with margin, and interrupted by the veins, a second 

 similar line nearer the margin ; but more widely interrupted at the 

 veins, a fine brownish-black marginal line. Fringes white, greyish 

 anteriorly. Hind wing with two black subbasal spots in 7 and in the 

 cell, a third and larger black discal spot in 7, a postdiscal pale brown 

 series of spots as on upperside, but of six spots placed as in the allied 

 species. A pale brown somewhat crenulate submarginal line. A sub- 

 marginal pale brown spot in 6 followed by three pale dots in 5-3, 

 a black spot in 2, and a black bar or double-spot in lc. 



Body and appendages coloured as in other species. 



Length of forewing, 15 mm. 



Habitat. — Eutshuru Eiver, N. Kivu, November, 1919, seven ? ?. 

 No other species of the group was taken in this district, but three 

 species were found in the Ituri region, and all the specimens were 

 2 ? . 



79.' Catochrysops celaeus kivuensis subsp. nov. (pi. XVI, figs. 91, 

 93 8 , 92 ?). 



Distinguished especially in the 2 by the narrow dark distal edge 

 of fore wing, and absence of the second discal spot on hind wing. 

 8 . Upperside without distinguishing differences. 



