514 NOCTXTIBJE. 



brown -with some white points on costa ; a rufous apical patch de- 

 fined on inner side by a slight incurved whitish line from costa to 

 vein 7 ; subterminal line dark brown, oblique and diffused from 

 apex to vein 6, then double, slightly incurved below vein 3 ; a 

 crenulate blackish terminal line ; cilia dark brown with pale lines 

 at base and middle. Hind wing blackish brown with pure white 

 apical patch extending to vein 5 ; cilia below the white ])atch 

 tinged with grey and with slight dark line near base. Underside 

 pale brown irrorated with dark brown ; fore wing with the terminal 

 area dark brown, a white apical patch extending to below vein 5, 

 a dark discoidal spot with diffused white patch from just before it 

 to tornus, postmedial line curved and waved, subterminal line 

 angled outwards at vein 7, black points before termen on the white 

 patch ; hind wing with dark discoidal spot, diffused medial line, 

 waved postmedial line, subterminal line incurved below costa then 

 waved, and black points before termen on the white patch. 



$ . Fore wing with the basal area red-brown, the rest of wing 

 rufous, the medial area with a slight violaceous tinge ; liind wing- 

 paler brown. 



Hah. Cameeooks, Ja R., T5itji (Bates), type t c^ in Coll. Druce ; 

 Congo, Up. Kasai Distr. (Landleck), 2 i" Coll. Druce. ^.ay. 52 

 millim. 



7639. Achaea retrorsa, n. sp. (Plate CCXVII. fig. 16.) 



Head and thorax red-brown, the tegulae tipped with grey, the 

 patagia with the outer edge and tips grey ; Irons with fine grey 

 lines at sides ; antennae with the shaft white in front except 

 towards tips ; pectus and legs fuscous brown mixed with some grej', 

 the spurs and tarsi ringed with white; abdomen fuscous brown, the 

 crests at base tipped with Avhitish, Fore wing with the basal area 

 chocolate-brown with oblique whitish subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold slightly angled inwards in cell ; medial line black 

 defined on outer side by j'ellow-white, incurved from cost a to vein 1 , 

 then curved inwards to inner margin, the area beyond it pale red- 

 brown sparsely irrorated with black to the subterminal line ; a faint 

 ])ale reniform stigma with black points at angles of cell and a point 

 near its inner edge ; two indistinct postmedial lines with faint 

 violaceous white suffusion between them, excurved below costa, then 

 incurved, the outer line with some white towards costa, the inner 

 line with small black spot at inner margin ; cilia of inner margin 

 white except towards base and tornus ; subterminal line rather 

 diffused black-brown, oblique from apex to above vein 6, then 

 strongly bent inwards and incurved to tornus, the area beyond it 

 white tinged with brown and irrorated with blackish, whiter 

 toward apex, the veins finely streaked with while ; a series of black 

 points before termen and s])ots at submedian fold and tornus ; a fine 

 black terminal line and slight line near base of cilia, which are 

 white tinged with brown. Hind wing black-brown, the base tinged 

 with bluish white; a bluish white line from middle of costa to 



