IIERREPEKAS. 
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the fore and mid tibiae and the extremity of abdomen suffused 
with rufous. Fore wing bright rufous sparsely irrorated 
with black, the costal edge whitish ; a black point in middle 
of cell and ill-defined elliptical rufous discoidal spot ; post- 
medial line red-brown slightly defined on outer side by white, 
angled outwards below costa, then oblique and slightly 
sinuous, an oblique bluish white shade bejmnd it from costa 
to inner margin before the faint waved rufous subterminal 
line which has some bluish white suffusion beyond it from 
vein 3 to tornus ; some black scales on apical part of costal 
area. Hind wing bright rufous ; postmedial line slight, rufous 
defined on outer side by white, arising at vein 6 ; subterminal 
line double, dark, dentate, tire outer fine indistinct, some 
bluish white suffusion before and beyond it except on costal 
area, and the terminal area irrorated with a few black scales ; 
the termen narrowly fiery red to vein 2 and the cilia deep 
rufous. Underside ochreous tinged with rufous striated with 
brown and sparsely irrorated with black except on inner 
areas ; fore wing with black points in middle of cell and on 
discocellulars, a dark subterminal shade somewhat excurved 
at middle ; hind wing with black discoidal point. 
Hub. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar {Crompton), 1 $ type. 
Exp. 32 millim. 
Herpeperas violaris, n. sp. 
o . Head fuscous black tinged with white ; thorax and 
abdomen rufous tinged with violaceous ; pectus whitish ; 
legs red- brown mixed with whitish ; ventral surface of ab- 
domen rufous. Fore wing rufous strongly suffused with 
violaceous especially on terminal area ; a faint curved 
violaceous subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line faint, 
violaceous, angled outwards below costa, then sinuous ; a 
minute black point in middle of cell and slight blackish 
discoidal spot ; postmedial line double, violaceous, oblique 
to below costa where it is excurved, then inwardly oblique ; 
an oblique sinuous bluish white bar from apex to vein 6 
defined by rather diffused black, then a faint waved violaceous 
fine ; cilia red-brown. Hind wing strongly suffused with 
violaceous and irrorated with a few black scales, the costal 
area to beyond middle and the inner area whitish ; post- 
medial line violaceous slightly defined on each side by red- 
brown, from vein 6 to vein 1 ; a faint w r aved brownish sub- 
terminal line ; cilia red -brown. Underside whitish suffused 
wdth rufous and irrorated with blackish except on iimer 
areas ; fore wing with the costal area whitish, a minute 
black discoidal spot, postmedial line white, oblique to vein 7, 
then inwardly oblique, a whitish subterminal line very faint 
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