ACHiEA. 509 



to vein 1, irrorated with brown, its inner edge sinuous and waved, 

 a series of black points before termen. 



Hah. SiEKEA Leone {Foxcroft), 1 $ type ; S. Nigeeia, Ilesha 

 (^Humfrey), 1 cJ . Exp, 62 millim, 



*7631. Ach»a chrysopera. (Plate CCXVII. fig. 10.) 



Achcsa chrysopera, Driice, A. M. N. H. (8) ix. p. 552 (1912). 



S . Head brown ; thorax rufous with an orange tinge ; pectus 

 ochreous brown ; legs grey-broAvn, the tarsi ringed wil,h white ; 

 abdomen red-brown, some white points at sides towards base, the 

 anal tuft blackish below and with some white at sides. Tore wing 

 bright rufous mixed with some orange especially on costal area, the 

 base of inner margin brown ; a double brown subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, brown, waved ; 

 a black point in middle of cell and slight blackish discoidal lunule ; 

 medial line brown, dentate, excurved beyond the cell, then in- 

 curved ; a conical white patch on postmedial part of costa tinged 

 with blue except on inner side and irrorated with red-brown, the 

 costa red-brown with some white points ; postmedial line brown, 

 dentate, slight rufous and oblique to vein 6 where- it traverses the 

 white patch, then inwardly oblique ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 dark, oblique from costa to discal fold, then dentate ; a series of 

 black points before termen ; cilia white at tips except towards 

 tornus. Hind wing blackish brown, the apical area golden yellow 

 extending on costal area to near middle and on terminal area to 

 vein 5 ; a faint rufous postmedial line arising at vein 5, oblique to 

 vein 2, then bent inwards to inner margin ; the terminal area red- 

 brown below the yellow patch with a faint waved yellowish line on 

 its inner edge ; a series of blackish points before medial part of 

 termen ; cilia ochreous, white at tips to vein 2. Underside pale red- 

 brown ; fore wing with the costal area and terminal area except 

 towards tornus irrorated with violaceous white, small bi'own spots 

 on and beyond the discocellulars, the area from lower angle of cell 

 to tornus pale yellowish with a blackish brown patch beyond it ; 

 hind wing with the basal, costal, and inner areas irrorated with 

 white, a small dark discoidal spot, traces of a waved medial line, a 

 more distinct waved postmedial line, a series of black points before 

 termen on short white streaks. 



Hah. Germ. E. Africa, Dar-es-Salaam, type f (5 in Coll. Druce. 

 Ex"p, 54 millim. 



*7632. Achsea dejeani. (Plate CCXVII. fig. 11.) 



Ophiusa dejeanii, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag. p. 102, pi. 15. f. 4 (1833). 

 AchcBa orea, Mab. 0. E. Soc. Ent. Belg. xxv. p. Iviii (1881). 



S. Head and thorax pale reddish brown ; palpi, pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen grey-brown, the last with the anal tuft and ventral 

 surface towards extremity reddish brown. Pore wing brown 



