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Show 672 MR. H. DRUCE ON NEW SPECIES OF [Dec. 20} shaded with red along the inner margins; the outer margins bordered with black. The underside the same as above. Head and thorax red. Abdomen chrome-yellow, with a black spot on each segment. Palpi, antennae, and legs brownish black. Expanse If inch. Hab. East Africa: Magila (Craven). The type of this distinct species was obtained by Mr. Alfred E. Craven during his expedition to the Usambara country in East Africa. SECUSIO, Walk. SECUSIO MANIA, n. sp. Male. Primaries creamy white, all the veins and the apex pale brownish fawn-colour ; secondaries uniform chrome-yellow. Underside as above excepting the primaries, which are more yellow in colour, the veins not brown as above, the head and abdomen chrome-yellow ; thorax and tegulae creamy white, the collar and tegulae with black marks ; antennae black. The female is the same as the male, but much darker in colour. Expanse, 3 1J inch, $ If inch. Hab. East Africa : Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro). This species seems to vary very much ; I have a male and a female specimen before me that are almost white, with the veins brownish; in all other respects they are identical with the typical form. GIRPA, Walk. G I R P A OCTOGESA, n.sp. (Plate LV. fig. 1.) Primaries creamy white, shaded witb orange at the base and along the costal margin ; the apical half of the costal margin, the apex and the outer margin black, a black spot at the end of the cell joined on the lower side to the black outer margin. Secondaries creamy white, with an elongated black spot at the apex and a nearly round black spot to the anal angle. The underside the same as above. Head, thorax, and abdomen dusky white. Antennae brownish black. Expanse 1T^ inch. Hab. West Africa : Cameroons (Rutherford). A very distinct species, allied to G. circumdata, Walk. HYLEMERA, Bud. HYLEMERA DEXITHEA, n. sp. Primaries white, the apical third of the wing broadly black, going almost to a point at the anal angle. Secondaries white, with a small black spot at the apex. Head and antennae black, thorax and abdomen yellowish white. Expanse 11 inch. Hab. West Africa : Cameroons (Rutherford). A pretty little species allied to H. puella, Butler, from Madagascar. HYLEMERA NE^ERA, n. sp. Primaries pale slate-colour, from the base to about the middle |