422 LOKI) WALSINGHAM ON THE GENUS ANAPHE. 



In the British Museum are at least four described species of the genus Anaphe, viz . — 

 Anaphe venata, Butler, from Old Calabar ; Anaphe ambrizia, Butler, a small species 

 from Angola ; Anaphe reticulata, Walker, from Natal ; and Anaphe panda, Boisduval. 



The single typical specimen of Anaphe panda, from Natal, is precisely similar to those 

 from Colonel Bowker ; but placed under the same name is a considerable series of specimens 

 which differ from these in the absence of any transverse dark bar crossing the pale trian- 

 gular or wedge-shaped space beyond the middle of the anterior wings. In those specimens 

 that space is clear and unclouded, the longitudinal brown lines being confined to the 

 outer side of the oblique fascia, and connecting it, as in the Natal form, with the dark 

 fringes of the apical margin. The brown markings are also somewhat darker than those 

 of A. panda. These specimens are from Monga-ma-Lobah, in the Cameroons, and 

 although probably only a local race, arc at least as much entitled to specific distinction 

 as is the species named by Walker, Anaphe reticulata. The entire absence of variation 

 throughout the large colony sent by Colonel Bowker seems to indicate that the slight 

 differences observable in these local races are constant and reliable, and that there is 

 little or no individual variation. 



Anaphe infracta, sp. n. (PI. XLV. fig. 8). 



Head and palpi ferruginous ; antennae black. Thorax creamy white anteriorly, 

 ferruginous posteriorly, the white divided by a ferruginous streak along the middle, 

 reaching to the head. Fore wings creamy white, with narrow brown margins, the 

 fringes also brown, two narrow brown transverse bands ; the first, arising before the 

 middle of the costal margin, tends obliquely outwards to a point slightly beyond the 

 middle of the dorsal margin, where it joins the lower extremity of another narrow brown 

 band, which runs to the costa parallel with the apical margin, the two enclosing a plain 

 wedge-like space of the pale ground-colour of the wing. The outer of these bands is 

 connected with the apical margin by two shorter brown streaks from above and below 

 its middle, the upper one slightly depressed outwardly, the lower one more depressed, 

 reaching the margin slightly above the anal angle. Ilind wings creamy white, tinged 

 with ferruginous at the base, and about the abdominal margin, with a very faint indica- 

 tion of a transverse median shade of the same colour, more visible on the under side. 

 Abdomen pale ferruginous, with darker lines at the junction of the segments. 



Expanse of male 47 mm. ; of female 58 mm. 



Monga-ma-Lobah, Cameroons ( G. Thomson). 



Anaphe reticulata, Walker, figured by Herrich-Schaffer (Sammlung ausser-europai- 

 scher Schmetterlinge, f. 434), under the name Arctiomorpha euprepiarformis, has two 

 distinct transverse bars across the wedge-shaped pale space, the lower one of the two 

 being continued to the base of the dorsal margin. Two cocoons, said to belong to this 

 species, are in the British Museum, and differ from the one now under notice, so far as 

 I can ascertain, only in their rather smaller size and more irregular shape, and in the 

 colour of the silk of which the small cocoons in their interior are composed. These 

 (which in my specimen arc white, with scarcely any brownish tinge) are, in those cases, 



