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Hind wing with a square black apical patch on the margin, its lower edge 

 extending just below vein 6 ; anal angle with slight orange suffusion. 



Underside of fore wing as in melanomitra female. Hind wing with 

 basal line thicker and straighter than in the allied forms, orange 

 marginal line absent, black edging to anal spots as in the allied form. 



Length of fore wing : $ 16 mm., $ 16 mm. 



Habitat. — Belgian Congo : Lubilinga Valley, North-East Lubutu, 

 2,600 feet, August, 1921, three $ $, three ? ? (? type); Upper 

 Maiko Valley, north side, 2,600 feet, August, 1921, one $ , one ? 

 ( $ type) ; Tshopo Valley, north side, 2,400 feet, August, 1921, one $ ; 

 Oso Eiver, Lowa Valley, 2,600 feet, August, 1921, one $ . Also 

 one $ in Joicey Collection without locality. 



9. Syrmoptera nivea ? f. androgyna f. nov. 



Eesembles the male, but paler blue. Fore wing with slightly re- 

 duced blue area. Hind wing with apical black extended to vein 5 and 

 continued as a submarginal line to the spot in 2. White suffusion 

 slight. Underside of hind wing with greater black edging to the anal 

 spots. 



Habitat. — Belgian Congo, Kasai district, P. Landbeck, one $ , 

 ex coll. H. H. Druce. 



10. Spindasis montana sp. nov. 



This form appears most nearly allied to mozambica Bertol, and 

 as we have this species from the Katanga we must treat montana as 

 distinct. A similar looking species is ?iatalensis D. and H., but this 

 is distinguished from mozambica and others by possessing a spot at 

 the base of the costa on the fore wing below, and usually also a second 

 subbasal costal spot. 



$ . Upperside of fore wing with the yellow-orange markings 

 larger than in the allied forms. A dusky patch, enclosing a spot 

 of ground-colour, occupies the basal third of cell ; a quadrate spot at 

 end of cell between veins 2 and 3, and extending into the base of 

 cellule 2 ; a postdiscal band as broad as the cell-patch, between veins 2 

 and 6, curving outwards and becoming broader below 4 ; a submarginal 

 stripe between veins 4 and 6, posteriorly thinning out to a point which 

 almost touches in cellule 3 the upper point of the expanded portion 

 of the postdiscal band. Basal half of the interspace between vein 2, 

 cell, and inner margin sprinkled with pale-blue scales, some of which 

 have a roseate hue. 



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