ACH.^A. 02/ 



7657. Achaea boris. 



Jilosyris horis, Gey (^r, Zutr. Ex. Schtnett. v. p. 42. ff. 973, 4 (1837). 



Ojihisma ohlita, Wlk. xiv. 187o (1858). 



O'phisma senior, Wlk. xiv. 1376 (1858). 



Ophisma mundissima, Wlk. xiv. 1376 (1858). 



AchcBa sinistra, Mab. C.R. Ent. Soc. Belg. xxiii. p. xix (1880). 



Naxia debilis, HoU. Psyche, vii. p. 83, pi. iii. f. 4 (1894). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grejr-brown. Fore wing grey-brown 

 slightly irrorated with blackish, the teiminal area grey except at 

 apex; a curved dark subbasal line from costa to median neiviivc; 

 antemedial line dark, waved, erect ; an indistinct dark discoidal 

 bar ; medial line dark, excurved beyond the cell and angled 

 inwards in submedian fold ; postmcdial line dark, waved, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line dark, waved, excurved 

 below costa, some dark suffusion before it : a series of minute 

 black points before termen. Hind wing grey-brown ; an indistinct 

 obliquely curved dark medial line defined on outer side by a faint 

 greyish band ; a diffused blackish subterminal band extending to 

 termen at apex and narrowing to tornus ; termen and cilia grey 

 except towards apex, with a series of minute black points befoie 

 termen. Underside grey irrorated with brown; fore wing with 

 faint dark discoidal spot and postmedial and subterminal lines with 

 blackish suffusion between them at costa and middle and beyond 

 the latter at middle ; hind wing with black discoidal point, curved 

 minutely waved medial and postmedial lines, and subterminal line 

 diffused on inner side. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the reniform filled in with blackish. 



Ab. 2. mmidissima. Fore wing paler and redder brown. 



Hub. SiEKKA Leone {Morgan), 1 J type mundissima ; Gold 

 Co.AST, Aburi {Johnston), 1 5 ; S. Nigeeia, Lagos, Ebute Mcta 

 {Boar/), 1 J, 2 2, Old Calabar (Cot*Z>wm), 3 ?, Onitsha, 1$; 

 N. NiGEEiA, Bosso {Jones), 1 c? ; Congo, Kambove {Neave), 1 c? ; 

 Uganda, Entebbe {Afinchin), 1 J; Natal {Oneinzivs, Gooch, 

 Clark), 2 c?, 1 2 ; MadagAvSCAr, type t sinistra in Coll. Mabille. 

 Exp. 52-58 millim. 



7658. Achsea finita. 



Ophisma finite/ , G\ien. Noct. iii. p. 242 (1852). 

 Ophisma ivfinita, Giien. Noct. iii. p. 242(1862). 

 Ophisma limbata, Feld. Eeis. Not. pi. 116. f. 6 (1874). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing slightly 

 irrorated with blackish, the terminal area grey except at apex ; 

 a sinuous dark subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line dark, waved, nearly erect ; two black discoidal points 

 on a faint ochreous brown bar; medial line dark, w^aved, excurved 

 be3'ond the cell, then incurved; postmedial line dark, dentate, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line defining the 

 inner edge of the grey area, bent outwards to apex, then straight ; 



