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Show 1887.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM TROPICAL AFRICA. 681 and thorax the same colour as the wings ; the abdomen brownish black. Expanse 3| inches. Hab. West Africa: Mongo-ma Lubah (Thompson). This very fine insect is entirely different from any known to me; it is the only specimen I have seen. GONOMETA LOMIA, n. sp. Male. Primaries fawn-colour, a wide brownish-black submarginal line extending from the apex to the inner margin, beyond which on the margin is a row of indistinct spots. Secondaries fawn-colour, slightly paler at the base ; a black marginal line from the apex to the anal angle. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish fawn-colour. Antennae pale brown at the base, with black tips ; legs brown ; the underside of all the wings fawn-colour, darkest along the outer margins of the primaries. Expanse 2f inches. Hab. West Africa : Mongo-ma Lubah. GONOMETA CASSANDRA, n. sp. Male. Primaries rich purplish brown, slightly reddish along the inner margin ; a submarginal row of >-shaped black spots, bordered with white on the outer side, extending from the apex to the anal angle. Secondaries brownish black, with a beautiful greenish-blue shade, the outer margin broadly bordered with cream-colour. The underside the same as above, excepting that the secondaries are without the greenish-blue shade. Head and thorax dark brown. Abdomen brownish black, shaded with greenish blue on the upper-side, the underside of the thorax and legs dark brown, of the abdomen dusky white. Antennae brownish black. Expanse 3| inches. Hab. West Africa : Cameroons. This fine species is allied to Gonometa postica, Walker, from South Africa, figured by Felder in the ' Novara,' tab. 84. f. 1 & 2. Fam. LIMACODID_E. PARASA, Moore. PARASA URDA, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 7, 3 •) Male. Primaries pea-green, fawn-colour at the base and along the outer margin from the apex to the anal angle; the inner edge of the fawn-coloured margin is very much waved ; the fringe fawn-colour along the outer margin, green on the inner margin. Secondaries yellowish cream-colour, darkest at the base and along the inner margin ; the fringe fawn-colour. Underside yellowish, with the outer margins of all the wings shaded with reddish brown ; the upperside of the head and thorax bright pea-green, the underside dark reddish brown ; the abdomen fawn-colour. Palpi, antennae, and legs reddish brown. Expanse, 3 , H inch. |