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Fore wing with costa gently arched, termen faintly sinuous ; white, 

 mostly with dense fuscous irroration ; basal area formed of denser 

 irroration, more tinged with reddish, bounded by an outwardly oblique 

 white line, which is angled behind SM 2 , and thence runs inward to 

 hind margin ; median band weak, red-brown (mixed reddish and dark 

 fuscous), the central part less red than the proximal and distal; broad 

 anteriorly, edged by moderately thick white lines, the antemedian 

 oblique outward from less than one-third costa, angled outward in cell 

 (thence less oblique) and again at fold, almost vertical posteriorly, the 

 postmedian from about two-thirds costa, indented on the veins (deeply 

 on SC 5 ), approximately perpendicular to the lobe at E 3 , then oblique 

 inward to M' 2 , thence slightly oblique outward, the portion posterior to 

 M 2 thus considerably narrowed ; cellspot black, elongate, with some 

 white scales round it ; a curved dark line (defined by a pale spot at 

 costa) beyond cellspot, bounding the less red area ; space beyond post- 

 median traversed by thick whitish and slender incomplete fuscous lines, 

 the veins tinged with buff and red scales ; a white longitudinal streak 

 in front of E 1 , leading to the slenderer, more interrupted whitish 

 apical streak ; the area in front of these streaks more mottled ; sub- 

 terminal line fairly thick, white, interrupted, weakly lunulate, defined 

 by dark markings proximally ; a triangular dark terminal shade behind 

 apical dash, its apex on E 2 , its posterior extremity just behind E 3 ; 

 diffused reddish vein-spots at termen ; terminal line strongly blackish- 

 fuscous, scarcely interrupted; fringe strongly chequered. 



Hind wing white, tinged as far as the postmedian line with greyish ; 

 celldot black ; postmedian line grey, feeble anteriorly, less so pos- 

 teriorly, where it is incurved about M 2 ; terminal line weaker and more 

 interrupted than on fore wing ; fringe whitish, very feebly marked. 



Both wings beneath strongly marked, with elongate black cellspot, 

 well marked postmedian (inbent at E 2 and lobed outward about E 3 ) and 

 pale (whitish-brown) distal area, with broad reddish-brown (or red-grey) 

 proximal shades to the subterminal, that of fore wing mixed with blackish 

 in the anterior half ; fore wing with glossy smoky suffusion from base to 

 postmedian, the costal margin more ochreous-brown and with traces of 

 the anterior dark terminal shade ; hind wing as far as the postmedian 

 irrorated with reddish-grey, and with indications of dark transverse 

 lines ; fringes as above. 



Congo Beige : Vissoke Volcano, Mikeno Mountains, Kivu, October, 

 1919. (T. A. Barns.) Type in coll. Joicey. 



A smaller and duller $ from Nirango Volcano, Kivu, Tanganyika 

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