552 Neiv Forms of African Lepidoptera 



$ . Upperside of fore wing with creamy ground-colour and numerous 

 short black-brown strigae which are closer together in the proximal 

 two-thirds of wings. A broad discal band, contracted below the cell, 

 with the interspaces between the strigae filled in with orange-yellow ; 

 a similar and well-defined postdiscal line, angled outwards at vein 5 ; 

 a rounded black discocellular spot, an ill-defined black submarginal dot 

 in 5. The discal band and the postdiscal line are joined at the inner 

 margin. Distal area much lighter than the rest of the wing. Hind 

 wing pale orange-yellow (iii) and marked only with a dark, heavy, 

 black discocellular spot. 



Underside light orange-yellow (iii). Fore wing with the costa 

 sprinkled with blackish-brown, a heavy black discocellular spot. Hind 

 wing with costal area lightly washed with fuscous, discocellular spot 

 as on upperside. 



Head and thorax brownish-ochraceous, patagia with two black dots 

 at the base ; antennae and palpi blackish-brown ; abdomen light orange- 

 yellow ; pectus orange-yellow mixed with brownish-ochraceous; femora 

 orange-yellow above and brownish-ochraceous below, tarsi and tibiae black. 



Length of fore wing : 22 mm. 



Habitat. — Kugege Forest, 7,000 feet, December, 1921, one $ . 



Allied to approximans Roths., but a much darker insect, and further 

 distinguished by the creamy ground-colour of the fore wing and the 

 yellow hind wing. 



21. Garcinarc Ha xanthica sp. nov. 



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

 pi. lxxx, fig. 9, 1923. 



$ . Upperside of fore wing ground-colour deep-chrome (iii), speckled 

 with reddish-orange. Five lines defined by blackish dots, two crossing 

 the cell, a postdiscal curved at the middle, a fourth parallel to the third, 

 the fifth submarginal and indistinct, a dot at upper angle of cell, and 

 one at lower angle. Hind wing carrot-red (xiv), with distal two-thirds 

 dusted with black. A large black discocellular mark, and a submarginal 

 black line, heavy at the anal angle, and partly interrupted. 



Underside ground-colour ochraceous-bufT (xvi). Fore wing with 

 apical half dusted with black, a heavy black discocellular mark, two 

 postdiscal outwardly curved lines, and an indistinctly defined sub- 

 marginal one. Basal area washed with crimson. Hind wing with 

 a > shaped black discocellular mark, an indistinct postdiscal line and 

 a more heavily marked submarginal one, both somewhat interrupted. 



