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Show SO MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW LEPIOOl'TERA. [Jail. 17, nervures divided by a streak, as in D. limniace. Wings below spotted and streaked as above ; the apex of front wings and the whole of hind wings brownish ochraceous. Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 | lines. Hab. Sula (Wallace). Coll. W . W . Saunders. The natural position of this species is between D. australis and D. choaspes. Genus ROMALEOSOMA, Blanchard. ROMALEOSOMA JANETTA, n. Sp. Front wings above blue-black, the interno-basal area yellowish green; a large green-tinted yellow subapical patch. Hind wings green ; yellowish towards apical area; a red spot between bases of costal and subcostal nervures ; apex to second median branch broadly black, exhibiting a submarginal series of blacker spots, edged externally with green, and continuing to interspace between first and second median brandies ; anal margin narrowly black ; internal area brown. Body dark brown. Wings below nearly as in R. cato, but the black spots differently disposed ; both wings plum-coloured at base. Expanse of wings 3 inches 8 lines. Hab. Fantee, Cape Coast (Ussher). Coll. Swanzy. W e have this species also in the British Museum ; it comes nearest to R. cato, from which, however, it is readily distinguishable. Genus H A R M A , Westwood. H A R M A LURIDA, n. sp. cS . Wings above golden ochraceous, basal area (including almost the whole of hind wings) orange, tinted and dusted with brown atoms; the margin narrowly and regularly black-brown. Hind wings with a submarginal series of black spots, nearly touching the brown border, and towards anal angle a discal series of three or four hastate spots; abdominal margin black-brown. Body brown. Wings below greyish brown, with central dark ferruginous line from third median branch of front to anal angle of hind wings ; the usual discoidal rusty black-edged markings and three pale spots near the base ; outer margin varied with white and bounded internally by a double lunated brown line ; a submarginal series of black and white points. Expanse of wings 3 inches. Hab. Fantee, Cape Coast (Ussher). Coll. Swanzy. Belongs to the Egesta group. Genus ATERICA, Boisduval. A T E R I C A FELICIA, n. sp. $ . Wings above brown. Front wings with usual ochre-encircled discoidal markings; basal area terminated by a narrow, strongly arched, and somewhat angulated ochreous streak ; a discal chain-band and submarginal line also ochreous; three white points near |