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



Underside of both wings white, the fore wing with the costal and 

 terminal areas broadly suffused with fuscous and the lines and stigma 

 showing through from above ; hind wing with a black subbasal dash 

 at costa. 



Congo Beige : Semliki River, Ruwenzori, December, 1919. (T. A. 

 Barns). $ — type; Tallia River, Semliki Valley, December, 1919. 

 (T. A. Barns). One ? . 



In Cat. Lep. Phal., vol. V., p. 454, this species is cited under the 

 name of mossambicensis Hopff., as a form of eumela Stoll., but 

 Hopffman's figure of mossambicensis distinctly shows the six yellow 

 spots on the thorax which are one of the most marked distinctions 

 between eumela and barnsi, so that the name mossambicensis is evi- 

 dently incorrectly employed, and this form appears to be without a 

 name. In Coll. British Museum there are specimens of this species 

 from N. Nigeria, Uganda, Nyassaland, and Natal : one specimen from 

 Mozambique appears to have the fringe without dark chequering, but 

 in other respects it agrees with eumela. 



The points of difference between the two forms (which appear to 

 me sufficient to establish barnsi as a good species) are the following : 

 the different arrangement of the yellow hair on thorax ; the generally 

 whiter tone in barnsi (especially on abdomen and hind wing, which 

 in eumela — ? are strongly suffused with fuscous) ; the broader sub- 

 basal line ; the unchequered fringe of fore wing and the very large 

 crimson centre of reniform, which is often without any black defini- 

 tion and never has the strong black lunules which are often present 

 in eumela. 



5. Graphauia tortirena sp. n. (pi. XVII, fig. 5). 



? , 35 mm. 



Head, thorax and palpus clothed with variegated hair, white, tawny, 

 purple and dark brown ; antennal shaft brown ; pectus and legs whitish, 

 the tibiae tinged with ochreous and the tarsi with fuscous ; abdomen 

 brownish-grey with the anal tuft golden-yellow. 



Fore wing greyish-white thickly irrorated with dark-brown mixed 

 here and there with ochreous scales, paler and tinged with violet distally 

 to the postmedial line. Subbasal line almost obsolete, appears out- 

 wardly oblique from costa to M and angled in at fold ; antemedial line 

 blackish from costa at one-third to hind margin at two-fifths, angled 

 out in cell, at fold and behind SM 2 ; claviform rather long, candle- 

 shaped, pointing toward tornus, thickly black-outlined at sides and 



