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dorsal dots and with anal extremity white. Legs white, the first two 

 pairs reddened on upper and inner sides ; hind tibia of $ dilated, with 

 very short terminal process, a short white tuft at femoro-tibial joint, 

 and a fairly strong white hair-pencil. 



Fore wing rather broad ; SC 1 anastomosing slightly with C, or free, 

 R 1 very shortly stalked, M 1 just separate ; bright green, with moderately 

 prominent white strigulae ; costal edge pale buff, tinged, except towards 

 base, with roseate ; a moderate black celldot ; a white spot or dash on 

 middle of hind margin, nearly or quite reaching M 2 , bordered distally 

 with blackish ; fringe nearly concolorous, with a pale line at base and 

 indistinctly whitish tips. 



Hind wing ample, termen moderately bent at R 3 ; concolorous 

 with fore wing, and with a similar black celldot ; fringe as on fore 

 wing. 



Underside whitish-green, the fore wing in anterior half and the 

 fringe of both wings rather greener ; fore wing with costal edge 

 narrowly buff. 



East Tanganyika : Upper Ruvubu River, Urindi District, July 

 and August, 1919. (T. A. Barns.) Type $ and allotype 2 , in coll. 

 Joicey. Also a 2 from Namadidi, ten miles from Zomba, Nyassaland, 

 January, 1920 (H. Barlow). 



A common and widely distributed species, which has been left 

 mixed among congrua Walk., pulchraria Swinh., and other allies. 

 Tring Museum has it from Nigeria, Angola, Unyoro, Uganda, British 

 East Africa, and Nyassaland, the British Museum from Old Calabar 

 (Swinhoe's "type ? " of pulchraria!), Uganda, British East Africa, 

 Nyassaland, and Transvaal. The markings are nearly those of nigri- 

 punctata Warr., trifilifimbria Prout, &c, the bright coloration that of 

 pulchraria Swinh., or the brighter specimens of scissaria Feld. 



STERRHINAE. 



2. Eois oressigenes sp. nov. (pi. XVIII, fig. 12). 



? , 26 mm. 



Head red-orange, the fillet, lower extremity of face and palpus 

 beneath yellower. Thorax and abdomen above red-orange, somewhat 

 mottled, beneath paler, duller and more ochreous. 



Fore wing with areole fairly large, subcostals normal, M 1 not stalked ; 

 yellow, nearly covered with a network of lunulate rust-red lines, which 

 leave mere interneural spots of the ground-colour ; markings blackish- 



