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and angled above vein 4. The ocellus is smaller and there is no distinct 

 white spot above it. Hind wing with the band slightly narrower than 

 in typical form. Fringes not distinctly paler between the veins, only a 

 few whitish scales here and there. 



Habitat.— Lake Kivu, north end, 5,000 feet, October, T. A. Barns, 

 one $ . 



Erycinidae. 



6. Abisara bamsi, J. and T. $ . 



? . Bull. Hill Mijs. i, p. 77, pi. XIII, figs. 41, 42 (1921). 

 $ figured in " Across the Great Craterland to the Congo," T. A. 

 Barns, pi. lxxxii, fig. 4, 1923. 



$ . Ground-colour darker than in the female. Upperside of fore 

 wing with a discal triangular area of purplish-blue, its apex reaching 

 upper angle of cell, its base reaching from near base to the end of post- 

 discal line on inner margin. Postdiscal line purplish-blue from cellule 9 

 to the tornus, its upper part to vein 4 broad, curved at this part, and 

 strongly narrowed to the tornus. A small subapical ocellus in 5, black 

 with purplish-blue centre. Hind wing with discal purplish-blue band 

 broader than in the female, also forming a stripe along cellule 2, with a 

 thinner stripe along cellule 3, reaching the postdiscal short angulate 

 line. A submarginal line as in the female but thicker. Two ocelli in 4 

 and 5 as in the female. 



Underside marked as in the female. Fore wing ocellus larger ; sub- 

 marginal area to vein 2, but not reaching margin between this vein and 

 submedian, fuscous. Hind wing discal band much broader than in the 

 female. A distinct pale basal area between vein 8 and lower margin of 

 cell, extending into the angle of vein 5 and of 6 and 7. 



Length of fore wing : 24 mm. 



Habitat. — Oso-Lowa watershed, Belgian Congo, August, 1921, 

 two $ $ (N. At.) ; Upper Lowa Valley, September, 1921, one $ ; 

 Upper Maiko Valley, 2,500 feet, August, one $ ; Upper Maiko, North- 

 East Lubutu, 2,800 feet, August, one $ . All collected by T. A. Barns. 



Lycaenidae. 



7. Alaena auraniiaca Btl. $ . 



$ $ figured in Barns' " Across the Great Craterland to the Congo," 

 pi. lxxxii, fig. 8, $ , 11 ? , 1923. 



The female of this interesting species is remarkably large considering 

 the size of the male, and appears to be the largest female in the group. 



