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NEW FORMS OF AFRICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



By J. J. JOICEY and G. TALBOT. 



The forms here described, except where otherwise stated, were 

 collected by T. A. Barns, F.R.G.S., &c, on his expedition to the Great 

 Craterland and the Congo. 



All the types are in the Hill Museum. 



Thirty-nine forms are described in the present paper, and a con- 

 siderable number still remain to be worked out. There are several new 

 Lasiocampidae, and these will be included in a paper on this family 

 which may have to be published elsewhere at a later date. 



BHOPALOCEBA. 



ACRAEIDAE. 



1. Planema obliqua Auriv. ? . 



$ . Resembles the $ . The yellow band of fore wing and white 

 band of hind wing broader. 



In coll. Joicey from Cameroons : Banso Mountains, north of Kumbo, 

 6,000 feet, September, one $ , one $ ; between Bamenda and Kumbo, 

 4,000 feet, August, one $ , one $ ; between Banyo and Gendern, 

 4,000 feet, September, one ? .—Coll. G. L. Bates. 



Nymphalidae. 



2. Euptera sirene Stgr. $ . 



The two specimens from which the following description is made 

 have much in common with semirufa J. and T. from the Congo. We 

 have received a $ of a sirene form from the same district as one of the 

 semirufa, and it seems possible that these are sexes. If we are correct 

 in this, it follows that the two $ $ under consideration are possibly 

 sirene. 



Upperside ground-colour black-brown with rufous markings and 

 white spots. Fore wing with some white marks in the cell ; a waved 

 rufous subbasal line from origin of vein 3 to inner margin ; a rufous 



