New Forms of African Lepidoptera 549 



Underside as in $ . 



Length of fore wing: $ 14-15 mm., $ 10-15 mm. 



Habitat. — Belgian Congo : Marungu Plateau, south - west 

 Tanganyika 7,000 feet, February, 1922, eleven $ $ , five $ ? (types) ; 

 Mkoma Mountains, South Urindi district, East Tanganyika, July, 1919, 

 one $ , two $ ? ; Mkoko Kiver, Ruanda district, September, 1919, one £ . 



The specimens from the Euanda show a more sharply defined white 

 postdiscal band on the hind wing below. 



HETEROCERA. 



Amatidae. 



16. Metarctia bipuncta sp. nov. 



Figured in Barns' " Across the Great Craterland to the Congo," 

 pi. lxxx, fig. 8, 1923. 



This appears to be allied to fuscous Hmpsn.,but it has longer wings, 

 and the dots on the fore wing are white. The figure shows the charac- 

 teristic shape, but the pattern suffers by reduction. 



$ . Upperside of fore wing fuscous (xlvi) speckled with black 

 especially below the apex. A black discocellular spot with a white dot 

 on its outer edge, a second similar black spot and white dot below the 

 base of vein 2. Hind wing drab (xlvi). Fringes of both wings edged 

 outwardly with pink. 



Underside drab speckled with fuscous. Fore wing with a disco- 

 cellular mark. Whitish at tips. 



Antennae fuscous. Head, palpi, thorax, abdomen and legs fuscous. 

 Abdomen long, a little longer than hind wing. 



Length of fore wing : 18 mm. 



Habitat. — Rugege Forest, 8,000 feet, December, 1921, three $ $ . 



17. Balacra erubescens sp. nov. 



Figured in Barns' " Across the Great Craterland to the Congo," 

 pi. lxxx, fig. 3, 1923. 



Apparently allied to preussi Auriv., but the fore wing with a reddish 

 distal flush and only four post-cellular spots. 



$ . Upperside of fore wing greyish-brown. A small pale yellow spot 

 at end of cell, edged with crimson, and joined to a crimson streak through 

 the cell to base. Four spots beyond the cell in 3-6, semi-hyaline with 

 slight crimson scaling, in the paratype more hyaline ; a pale-yellow spot 

 slightly crimson-edged, below base of vein 2, in the paratype more 



