ACHJEA. 507 



ochreous white, oblique to vein 6, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, 

 a black and red-brown patch beyond it on costal area defined by a 

 white streak below and with some white points on costa; sub- 

 terminal line slight and whitish to the white streak, angled inwards 

 below costa and outwards at vein 7, then very indistinct, dark, 

 w^aved ; a series of black and white points just before termen ; cilia 

 with a slight ochreous line at base. Eind wing dark brown ; a 

 golden-yellow apical patch extending to vein 4 and narrow below 

 vein 6 ; a black point before termen at discal fold and black 

 terminal line between veins 4 and 1 ; cilia with a slight ochreous 

 line at base at the dark area. Underside dark brown ; fore wing 

 with oblique yellow band from below middle of costa to tornus ; 

 hind wing with two indistinct dark postmedial lines. 

 Ilab. Cameroons, 1 $ type. Exp. 70 millim. 



*7629. Aclisea radama. 



Achcea radama, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 116. f. 17 (1874). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown, the two former and 

 the tibiae with a few white scales, the spurs and tarsi ringed 

 with whitish. Fore wing dark brown ; the basal area with some 

 reddish brown ; an oblique sinuous black subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line black defined on outer side by 

 reddish brown, oblique, sinuous ; the basal part of medial area 

 black-brown, Avith sinuous outer edge, the medial part violaceous 

 grey irrorated with red-broAvn wath small black spots at angles of 

 cell, bounded by the dentate dark brown medial line excurved 

 beyond tlie cell, then incurved, the outer part violaceous grey 

 suffused wath red-brown and with dark brown on costal half, with 

 another indistinct dentate line beyond the medial line Avith small 

 violaceous white spots on it above and below vein 3 ; postmedial 

 line double, blackish filled in with violaceous white, oblique and 

 sinuous to below vein 6, then dentate and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 terminal area black-brown tinged with red-brown towards termen 

 except at apex; a curved black-brown patch defined by rufous from 

 costa to vein 6, its outer edge excised and with some violaceous 

 Avhite irroration beyond it and some rufous points on costa ; traces 

 of a sinuous dark subterminal line from vein 6 to inner margin ; a 

 crenulate black-brown terminal line Avith Avhite points beyond it at 

 the interspaces ; cilia black-brown with a rtifous line at base. 

 Hind wing black-brown with a lai'ge apical yellow patch extending 

 to beloAV vein 5, very broad at costa, its inner edge strongly bent 

 outwards at vein 6; traces of an oblique pale line from discal fold 

 to inner margin near tornus ; a faint yellow line from the apical 

 patch to termen at vein ] ; a Avaved dark line just before termen 

 with yellowish beyond it, obsolete towards apex ; cilia yellow at 

 the apical patch, then black-brown with some yellowish at tips at 

 submedian interspace. Underside of fore wing black-brown, the 

 costa irrorated with white, the apical area paler and irrorated with 



