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slightly defined by blackish and extending to median nervure ; 
orbicular with blackish annulus, small, round ; reniform 
incompletely defined by blackish and with white points on its 
outer edge ; traces of a waved dark medial line ; postmedial 
line blackish, very oblique to vein 6, then somewhat dentate, 
excurved to vein 3, then strongly incurved, some white points 
beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a dark 
brown shade angled outwards at veins 7, G, then a series of 
dentate marks in the interspaces to vein 2, incurved at discal 
fold ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing 
dark brown with a cupreous gloss, the basal area white tinged 
with red-brown to submedian fold ; cilia white tinged with 
brown at apex, between veins 4 and 2 and towards tornus. 
Underside of both wings clothed with bright rufous androconia 
to middle, then with some whitish before the broad dark brown 
terminal area, then termen whitish to vein 4. 
$. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with ochreous, 
pectus and legs ochreous irrorated with brown, abdomen 
fuscous, ochreous at base and extremity, the ventral surface 
rufous irrorated with brown, ochreous at base ; fore wing 
fuscous and ochreous with hardly any red-brown tones, the 
terminal area below apex paler ochreous ; underside ochreous 
white to beyond middle with some brown irroration on costal 
areas and small blackish discoidal spots. 
Hab. Gold Coast, Obuassi {Bergman), 1 $, Kumasi ( White- 
side , Sanders), 1 <$, 1 $ type. Exp. $ 30, $ 34 millim. 
Catephia scotaea, ». sp. 
$. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with whitish and some 
blackish, the tegulte with two blackish lines ; antennae fuscous 
ringed with whitish towards base ; pectus whitish ; tarsi 
blackish ringed with white ; abdomen black-brown mixed 
with whitish except the crests and extremity, the anal tuft 
pale rufous, the ventral surface white mixed with red-brown. 
Fore wing red-brown mixed with grey ; subbasal line slight, 
black, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, 
oblique and slightly curved ; orbicular defined by blackish, 
rather oblique elliptical ; reniform with its inner edge slightly 
defined by whitish, its outer edge with a small white spot 
with point above it and two below it ; a diffused brown 
medial line from costa to discal fold and from lower angle of 
cell to inner margin ; postmedial line black, slightly bent 
outwards below costa, then slightly sinuous, oblique to vein 
4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; 
subterminal line faint, pale defined on inner side by some 
diffused dark brown, excurved below vein 7 and angled out- 
