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Show 1887.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM TROPICAL AFRICA. 671 distinguished by the difference in the white band on the primaries and the bright carmine colour of the secondaries. Specimens are also m the British Museum from the above locality and Old Calabar. Fam. NYCTEMERID-E. ALETIS, Hiibn. A L E T I S C U N A X A , n.sp. (Plate LV. fig. 9, 2 •) Male. Primaries black, with the basal half dark yellowish brown, the brown on the outer side sloping off from the end of the cell to near the anal angle on the inner margin, two white spots near the apex. Secondaries dark yellowish brown, the outer margin broadly banded with black from the apex to the anal angle, and much dentated in the middle, a black streak from the base along the inner margin to the anal angle. Underside orange, with all the black margins much narrower and more broken ; four white spots on the primaries, the first three close to the apex, the fourth at the anal angle, and five on the outer margin of the secondaries, three near the apex and two quite small, close to the anal angle. Head, antennae, thorax, and upperside of the abdomen black, the sides of the abdomen with each segment bordered with white, the underside dusky yellow ; the tegulae black, spotted with white ; legs black. The female is rather larger than the male and much paler in colour, and the black margins to the wings are not so wide, and it also has a small black spot below the end of the cell on the secondaries, like A. postica, Walk ; on the underside it is almost identical with that of the male, the white spots being slightly larger. Expanse, 3 1-i inch, $ If inch. Hab. West Africa : Congo (Huson-More). TERINA, Walk. TERINA NIPHANDA, n. sp. Primaries orange-yellow, slightly hyaline, black at the base round a small white spot; a black band crossing from beyond the middle of the costal margin to the apex, the band is narrow in the middle ; the apex broadly black, with a white spot; the outer margin black. Secondaries orange-yellow, the outer margin black, with a white spot at the apex. Thorax white, tegulae black. Abdomen black, with a white spot on each segment down the middle from the base to the anus, which is yellow ; the underside as above. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. West Africa : Congo (Huson-More). This species is allied to T. latifascia, Walker, but very distinct. TERINA EURYANASSA, n. sp. Primaries: the basal half chrome-yellow; the apical half black, crossed from the costal margin almost to the anal angle by a wide, white, slightly hyaline band. Secondaries dark chrome-yellow, |
