( 131 ) 

 Ol."). D. inconspicua spec. nov. 



<J. Pectus oraui,'e ; jKilpi aud antennae black; head dark bnff ; thorax btifi* ; 

 teguUie witli large bhick dot, patagia with small black dot ; abdomen pale orange, 



a, central dorsal row of black spots. Forewing creamy buff; a black spot on 



costa one-si.\th from base ; a black streak on costa reaching into cell, a similar 

 streak beyond cell reaching from costa to vein 7 ; some irregular black striae 

 lietween veins 8 and 4 near margin ; a black dot below the costal one on vein 3 ; 

 three minute ones, two above and one below vein 2 ; five black spots, three above 

 and two below vein 1. Hindwing butfy yellow with cellular brownish stigma. 



Length of forewing: 17 mm. 



JIab. Zomba, Upper Shire Kiver, 3u0<) ft,, October — December IDOo ; Mikin- 

 dani, January — May 1895 ; Kilwa, German East Africa, June lOtiU (Reimer) ; 

 Mpuapua, German East Africa : Canhoca, Angola (Dr. Ansorge). 



3 6. 



916. D. lutea lutea (lllifn.). 



33 <?cJ, 24 ? ? Great Britain ; 1 <J Niton, Isle of Wight, June 13, ]'.103; 1 o^ 

 Brighton, Sussex, May 2o, 18'.t8; 12 3<S, 13 ? ? Tring, Hertfordshire, May 1898- 

 June 1906 (A. F. Goodson). The following are all aberrations : intermedia, 

 zatiina, and desckaiigei : 2 (? o Great Britain; 2 <JcJ, 3 9? Pounds, Yorkshire 

 (Tngwell) ; 3 cJcJ Lincolnshire Coast, May 1898 (Raynor) ; 1 <J, 1 ? Folkestone; 

 3 <J<J, 8 ?? Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield, 1902 (B. Morley) ; 2 <?<J, 10 ?? 

 Barnsley, 1901—1903 (S. Harrison); 6 larvae; 1 <J, 1 9 Europe; 1 <J, 2 ?? 

 Bern, Switzerland, May 1891; 2 S3, 3 ?$ Crimmitschau, May 1896—1898 

 (Th. Wagner) ; 2 SS, 5 V ? Liebenau, Bohemia, 460 m., June 1897 — 1908 (Emil 

 Gradl); 1 ? Berlin, 1 cj Germany (Bachecker coll.) ; 3 cJcJ, 5 ? ? ? (Felder coll.) ; 

 1 (J Herculesbad, Hnngary, Jnly 12, 1907 (Walter Rothschild and Ernst Hartert) ; 



1 S Fogares ; 1 cJ, 1 ? Marmarosszuget, Transylvania (Farkos Sandor) ; 4 (JcJ, 



2 ?? Luchon ; 1 cJ, o ?? Cauterets, French Pyrenees, July 1905—1906 (Walter 

 Rothschild aud Ernst Hartert) : 1 ? Granada, Andalnsia, Spain (C. Ribbe) ; 1 o ? ; 



3 cJ<J, 3 ?$ St. Petersburg (Groum-Grsclimailo coll.); 2 larvae. The following 

 are ail aberrations, inchuling zatima, intermedia, and deschamjei : 4 3 3, 8 ?? 

 Germany (Gronm-Grschmailo coll.); 1 1 ? ? , 19 ? ? ? ; 3 o (J Berlin; 1 J, 1 9 

 Heligoland. 



916a. D. lutea japonica subspec. uov. 



3 9 . Differs from latea lutea in both sexes by generally smaller size and 

 absence of black spots on the upjierside, except the two on costa aud the two 

 on each side of vein 1 of forewing. 



llab. Yokohama, Japan, -Iidy 1898. 



Staudinger aud Rebel place D. panctaria (Stoll) as a subspecies o( lutea. This 

 is absurd, as it does not belong (o the same section of the genus, being nearer 

 labricipeda {jmnthrasti). 



916b. D. lutea rhodosoma Turati. 



1 3 Ficuzza, Sicily, June 8, 19o8. 



917. D. pseudomaenas spec. nov. 



3. Pectus, head, and thorax orange-butf; antennae white above, grey below ; 

 basal and anal segments of abdomen orangc-bnff, rest blackish clothed with dense 



