294 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. I'JIS. 



Hah. Faniuhar Islaud, N.B. of Madagascar, October IT, 1905 (T. B. Fletcher), 



1 <?. 



Tlie body is clayish buff on the ujiperside iuid creamy bnff beneath ; the 

 central line on the patagia not very prominent. Forewing, aboce, paler than in the 

 other two races of aurora, the oblique double line which reaches hindmargin 4 mm. 

 from base less conspicuous; the oblique, abbreviated, apical line on the contrary very 



conspicuous, being as prominent as the submarginal line. The black colouring of 



the hindwing more restricted, the red submarginal band continued to subcostal vein, 

 and the pale marginal baud reaching ape.x, only becoming narrower just below 

 apex. 



Underside pale ochraceous buff with a slight pink tone. The pro.ximal half of 

 forewing slightly shaded with fnscons, the marginal band quite indistinct, paler 

 than the disc, anteriorly bordered by a brownish oblique line extending from the 

 apex.~Hindwiug uniform in colour, paler at abdominal margin, with hardly 

 a trace of a marginal band. 



The specimen is much injured, but the scaling of the body and what is left of 

 the wings does not appear to have suffered. 



7. Theretra orpheus scotinus subsp. nov. (PI. XX. fig. (i). 



S. Alis supra et subtus multo magis fuscescentibus quam in Tli. o. ori/hco, 

 fascia pallida alannn auticarum (iblii|ua postice solum albescente. 



Hah. llesha, hSouth Nigeria (Capt. L. E. H. Hnmfrey), 3 cJcJ. 



The whole insect, with the exception of the underside of the body, of a mnch 

 darker, blackish tint than the other known African races, agreeing on the npperside 

 in facies best with intensa R. & J. (19U;3), from Grande Comoro. The pale band 

 of the forewing which runs from the middle of the hindmargin towards the apex 

 is posteriorly whitish grey for about 3 mm., but otherwise smoke-colour, like 

 the greater portion of the area outside this band ; the median costal area shows 

 a very slight tawny tint. 



The lines on the underside less prominent than in o. orphfiis on account of 

 the dark general colouring, the outer line of the forewing accompanied ou outer 

 side by a creamy bnff band from hindmargin' to centre, costal margin narrowly 



ochraceous buff, turning into grey at apex. Hindwing blackish, costal margin 



huffish grey, abdominal area and an anteriorly abbreviated submarginal line grey. 



