New Lepidoptera collected by Mr. T. A. Barns 121 



tincfc, oval, grey in centre, with red -brown annulus and defined by 

 black ; reniform with pale annulus proximally defined by red-brown 

 and distally by blackish ; a slight, dark medial shade ; post-medial line 

 double, minutely dentate, the inner line sharp and blackish, the outer 

 greyish and diffused, angled outward at costa, excurved round cell to 

 behind reniform, nearly erect from just behind M 2 to hind margin ; 

 the dark costal shade extending to behind cell as far as post-medial 

 line ; subterminal line red-brown, angled out on SC 5 , then dentate, 

 with rather long teeth on K 3 and M 1 ; a red-brown shade at termen 

 and a strong black terminal line thickened between the veins ; fringe 

 ochreous and red-brown, tipped in parts with black. 



Hind wing brownish-white with the terminal line and tips of 

 fringe fuscous. 



Underside of both wings white tinged with fuscous, the inter- 

 spaces paler in parts ; fore wing with a few red scales towards apex, 

 a dark postmedial bar at costa and a dark terminal line (less well 

 defined also on hind wing) ; slight traces of a discal spot. 



Congo Free State : Lufira River, Aff. Kikura and Buluo Rivers, 

 near Likasi Mine, 4,000 feet, March 28, 1919. (T. A. Barns). 

 One 2 . 



4. Diaplione bamsi sp. n. (pi. XVII, fig. 4). 



? , 46 mm. 



Head and palpus as in eumela Stoll ; thorax above golden-yellow 

 with a slight white band between meso- and metathorax, but not 

 broken into six separate spots as in eumela ; tegulae and patagia pure 

 white ; pectus with more white than in eumela ; legs with the yellow 

 bands broader and paler than in eumela ; abdomen greyish-white with 

 the segments only slightly edged with pale yellow (not strongly banded 

 with orange, as in eumela). 



Fore wing shining silvery-white with the terminal area slightly 

 tinged with fuscous ; subbasal line black and broad, nearly erect from 

 costa to SM 2 ; antemedial line black and broad, nearly erect and 

 slightly sinuous ; reniform a large, diffused crimson patch, entirely 

 without black definition ; postmedial line black, of even breadth, 

 outwardly oblique from costa at two-thirds to R 2 , bent inward to 

 reniform about M 1 , then almost straight to hind margin ; fringe 

 yellow, entirely without the dark chequering of eumela. 



Hind wing pure white with the veins and fringe slightly tinged 

 with yellow. 



