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AULACOPHORA ^NEIPENJflS. 



Ovafa, posfice paullo ampliata, rufo-fulxm, nitida, tarsis antennisque 

 rohustis, nigris, hariim articulis quinque basalibus obscure fulvis, articulo 

 ultimo piceo ; thorace transverso, lateribus obtuse ancful'itis, Icevi, hie illic 

 parce punctata, transversim sulcata, sulco integro ; elytris minute granulosis 

 nitidis, subcrebre punctatis, viridi-ceneis. Long. 2\ lin. 



Hab. : Lake Nyassa. 



Warwick : September, 1877. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF SEVERAL NEW SPECIES OF HETEROCEROUS 

 LEPIDOPTERA FROM JAPAN. 



by arthur g. butler, f.l.s., &c. 

 Maceoglossa saga. 



(? . Primaries and body of a dark slate-grey colour, with dark brown bands and 

 spots as in M. Corythus ; secondaries with a broad central bright cadmium-yellow 

 belt; base and external area black-brown (more broadly bordered than in M. 

 Corytlms) ; abdomen with three lateral basal transverse cadmium-yellow spots on 

 each side, separated by black abbreviated bars, the spot nearest to the base very 

 smaU ; under surface similarly marked to M. Corythus, but considerably redder in 

 colour. Expanse, 2 inches, 5 lines. 



Tokohama (Jonas). Type in B.M. 



Tliougli agreeing in pattern with M. Corytlnos, this species looks 

 almost black by the side of it, being even darker than M. Alcedo. 



Seisdtea noctuina. 



Primaries above black-brown, with pale veins ; an oblique angulated abbreviated 

 whity-brown bar from the costal margin to the lower radial ; reniform and orbicular 

 spots black, with pale margins ; a longitudinal pale-edged interno-median black patch ; 

 a concave oblique discal black stripe limiting the external border ; outer border rosy, 

 with marginal and submarginal parallel ferruginous lines ; fringe white, intersected 

 by a black line ; secondaries ochreous, with undulated outer margin ; a large spot 

 on the end of the cell and a rather broad submarginal belt, terminating near anal 

 angle in an internally directed tooth-liko process, black ; outer border from apex to 

 second median branch, with ferruginous lines as in the primaries, thence to anal angle, 

 with a single black marginal line ; fringe as in primaries ; head, thorax, and legs, 

 hairy, black streaked with white, legs below with ochreous tibise ; abdomen ochreous, 

 with a dorsal row of spots, and the anus black, below greyish ; wings below 

 ochreous, with the outer borders rusty ; a large black spot terminating each discoidal 

 cell ; a black dash on the interno-median areas ; primaries with a black spot in the 

 cell. Expanse, 1 inch, 10 lines. 



Hakodadi (Whitely). Type, B.M. 



Although belonging to the Agaristidce, this species somewhat calls 

 to mind some of the Noctuites in the arrangement of its colours. 



DATANOIDES, n. gen. 

 Allied to Anzabe, but with more n^rly the aspect of Datana ; 



