554 New Forms of African Lepidoptera 



thin lines of ground-colour, the interspaces being filled up by Saccardo's 

 umber (xxix). A small spot at base of wing, a larger spot next to it on 

 the costa with a narrower one below this, a large oblong costal patch 

 extending to the lower edge of cell, partly broken by a pale costal spot 

 and by a slight indentation on its lower edge, a large apical costal patch 

 having a small apical portion cut off by the ground-colour ; the lower 

 edge of these patches runs in line with the lower edge of cell. A sub- 

 basal somewhat rounded patch below the cell, and touching the inner 

 margin, a much larger median patch below the inner margin and vein 2, 

 a third patch, about equal to the first one, placed at the tornus ; a 

 somewhat triangular-shaped distal patch between veins 3 and 5 ; discal 

 interspace between these patches with a few dots and small spots of 

 varying size ; five fuscous-black fringe spots between the veins in 2 and 6. 

 Hind wing pale orange-yellow (iii) with a slight tinge of crimson ; faded 

 black markings in the shape of a postdiscal stripe angled at vein 4, and 

 a few submarginal spots; four fuscous-black fringe spots in cellules 2-5, 

 and fringe fuscous-black at the apex. 



Underside ground-colour as the hind wing above. Fore wing with 

 patches as on upperside but faded in colour. Hind wing as above. 



Antennae shortly bipectinate, pale-ochraceous. Palpi and frons 

 blackish-brown, vertex dark-ochraceous, with a black spot at the base, 

 tegulae dark-ochraceous with a large black spot, patagia and thorax 

 black, the former fringed with pale-ochraceous. Abdomen peach-red (i), 

 dorsally at the base pale orange-yellow, a black dorsal stripe, a sub- 

 ventral line of black spots, ventral surface tawny-olive (xxix). Pectus 

 Saccardo's umber (xxix), darker at the sides. Legs dark-ochraceous 

 mixed with blackish-brown, femora peach-red on the outer side. 



¥ . Marked as in the $ . Hind wing more reddish, and with 

 larger markings. Underside ground-colour darker than in the $ . 

 Antennae serrate, anteriorly black above. 



Length of fore wing : $ 16 mm., $ 21 mm. 



Habitat. — Kugege Forest, Euanda district, 7,000 feet, December, 

 1921, T. A. Barns, one $ ; Lufonso Eiver, East Luvua Valley, north- 

 east of Lake Mweru, 5,700 feet, February, 1922, T. A. Barns, one $ . 



Agaristidae. 



24. Heraclia barnsi sp. nov. 



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

 pi. Ixxx, fig. 13, 1923. 



We suspect this will prove to be a form of grandis Druce. 



