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Show 36 DK. W. J. HOLLAND OK THE AFRICAN [Jail. 14, black. There are two translucent spots at the end of the cell, the upper small, the lower linear, fused with each other. There are tv\ o translucent wedge-shaped spots on intervals 2 and 3 on either side of vein 3 at its origin, and there are three translucent subapical spots in the usual position, the lower one the largest and elongated, the two upper ones inclined to obsolescence. These translucent spots are only visible when the specimens are held up to the light. The secondaries are bright rufous, like the primaries, with the costa very broadly, and the outer margin more narrowly bordered with black. A long black ray runs from the base to the outer margin before the anal angle. There is a wedge-shaped translucent spot at the end of the cell near its lower edge, and two similar spots on either side of vein 3 at its origin. These spots, like those in the primaries, are only visible when the specimen is held up to the light. O n the underside the primaries are dull reddish fuscous, with a pale yellow suffused spot on the inner margin about the middle. A black elongated spot extends from the base outwardly on the eel as far as the inner margin of the translucent spots. These spots are defined outwardly beyond the cell by broad black markings. Near the apex, on the intercostal interspaces, there is a series of submarginal fuscous markings, and the margin is defined by a fine marginal line. The cilia are fuscous. On the underside of the secondaries the prevalent colour is fuscous ochraceous, the translucent spots being distinctly defined on this side, and having a reddish waxy colour. There is a curved series of black submarginal markings extending round the wing, the spots below the costal margin being most conspicuous. There is also a series of small marginal black spots, and a fine black marginal line. The anal angle is touched with dark brown. The black ray running from the base to the outer margin is obscurely indicated on the lower side and interrupted before the anal angle by a blackish annulus, pupilled with pale yellow. 2 . The antennae, palpi, and body are marked as in the male, but the underside of the body is paler, the lower side of the palpi and the end of the abdomen on the underside being very pale straw-yellow. The primaries on the upperside are black, clothed with greenish scales at the base, along the costa, and the inner margin. The translucent spots in the primaries are bright yellow, standing out conspicuously upon the black ground-colour. The secondaries are marked as in the male, but the black border of the costa is broader and blacker, and the light portions of the wing are bright straw-yellow instead of rufous. The cilia on the upper-side at the inner angle both of the primaries and secondaries are whitish. On the underside the ground-colour is bright yellow-ochraceous, with all the black markings as in the male, but broader and more clearly defined upon the pale ground-colour. The spots on the secondaries, which are prevalently bright yellow-ochraceous, are very sharply denned. The black ray on the secondaries running from the base to the inner angle is replaced by three |