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with orange behind. Abdomen orange above with white hair at base, 

 ventral surface white with yellow tinge. Legs white, tarsi marked 

 with black, fore femora orange above. 



Length of fore wing : 16 mm. 



Habitat. — Akanjaru Eiver, Kuanda District, August, 1919, one 3 . 



AGAEISTIDAE. 



7. Mitophrys barnsi sp. nov. 



Allied to latreillei H.S., but has larger spots and is distinguished 

 by a yellow submarginal dotted line. 



$ . Upperside of fore wing with maroon-brown ground-colour and 

 pale ochreous patches edged with black. Costa and basal two-thirds 

 of inner margin black. A small basal spot,' a spot in basal part of cell ; 

 a larger quadrate spot near end of cell ; a basal stripe entering base of 

 cell ; a large submedian patch, its lower edge touching submedian, its 

 upper edge touching vein 2, and narrowly separated from the basal 

 stripe by its black outer edge, the upper part of which is oblique ; a 

 small oblong spot on the black distal edge of the large spot ; a broad 

 oblique subapical band from below costa to a little below vein 3, its 

 lower part directed outwards to near the margin and somewhat rounded 

 at the end, at the middle slightly constricted ; a faint yellow short 

 subapical line invading the black anterior edge of the band ; a sub- 

 marginal dotted yellow line, formed of five dots anteriorly, some 

 scattered scales round the end of the band, and two indistinct dots in 

 a black patch at the tornus ; a bluish mark in the middle of cell, a 

 bluish discocellular mark, a bluish dot below base of vein 2, a bluish line 

 distally of the submedian patch, and a marginal series of purplish-blue 

 spots. Fringes pale ochreous. 



Hind wing orange with a broad black distal border and a large 

 black discocellular spot. Fringes black on inner half, outer half 

 ochreous. 



Underside with maroon-brown ground-colour. Fore wing with basal 

 half yellow and bearing a spot of ground-colour in base of cellule 2 

 with a quadrate spot in cell above it, separated by vein. A yellow sub- 

 apical band as above. Hind wing as above, distal border maroon- 

 brown. 



Antennae, head and thorax black. Palpi black fringed with orange 

 hair below ; frons white at sides ; tegulae with four white stripes ; 

 patagia fringed with orange on inside and with an orange basal spot. 

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