Netv Forms of African Lepidoptera 555 



$ . Upperside ground-colour black. Fore wing with the spots 

 cream-colour ; cell-spot large and reaching within a little of the costal 

 edge ; median spot large as in hornimanni Druce, and therefore longer 

 than in grandis ; subapical band as in grandis. spots joined, and 

 posteriorly farther from the margin than in grandis. One specimen 

 (2/3) with the veins crossing the band more heavily black and the 

 spot in 3 separated. The usual small spot at the tornus and the 

 blue cell and costal marks of the group. One specimen (3/3) with 

 a smaller spot on the submedian nearer to the median spot than to 

 the base, and below it on the inner margin a patch of sparse cream 

 scaling. Hind wing with broad crimson distal area, the outer edge 

 of which is rounded outwards to vein 4 and incurved between this 

 vein and submedian, thence rounded to the inner margin ; the crimson 

 area on the inner margin is dusky. Costa yellowish from base to 

 about midway, in grandis dark-grey. 



Underside of fore wing as on the upperside, and an additional spot 

 in the cell near its base, absent in grandis. The crimson area on 

 hind wing reaches almost to the base and does not extend above vein 8. 

 Fringes black, white at the apex of both wings ; in grandis the fringe 

 of the hind wing is white. 



Head, antennae, palpi and abdomen black , seventh and eighth 

 sternite with slight fulvous scaling. One specimen (3/3) has the 

 abdomen slightly fulvous and the other specimen (2/3) almost com- 

 pletely so. Legs as in grandis, black, femora white below, tibiae 

 with a spot or band of fulvous. 



Length of fore wing : 41 — 43 mm. 



Habitat. — Lowa Valley, three days above Walikale, north-west 

 Kivu, 4,300 feet, September, 1922, three ? ? . 



25. Mimeusemia geraldi Kby. ang-ustata subsp. nov. 



<£ $ . Distinguished from the typical East African form by the 

 narrow marginal band on the hind wing. The fore wing spots and 

 markings on head and palpi are white. 



Habitat. — Marungu Plateau, south-west Tanganyika, 7,000 feet, 

 February, 1922, two $ $ , four $ £ (types) ; Lindi Kiver district, 

 May-July, 1921, one $ . There is a little doubt about the locality 

 of the latter specimen. 



We have some doubts about including this species in Mimeusemia 

 and think it more nearly allied to Charilina. The frontal prominence, 



