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spotted with red ; the distal border 4 mm. broad anteriorly on fore 

 wing, slightly less posteriorly and on hind wing, margined by a fine 

 darker red or blackish line proximally and traversed by a usually 

 indistinct, interrupted, dentate, pale (in some lights silvery) sub- 

 terminal line ; between E^ and M^ the ground colour encroaches very 

 deeply into the band, almost touching the termen at M^ and M^ but 

 leaving a small pyramidal red spot betw^een these veins. Fringe 

 yellowish, marked with red at the vein-ends. Under side similar, 

 slightly paler, the red border without markings. 



Selukwe, October, 1911 ; two females (type and co-type). 

 Also three males : one taken early in 1911 ; one, December, 

 1911 ; one, March, 1912. In the females the discal spot of 

 hind wing is almost obsolete, but it is distinct in all the three 

 males. Otherwise there is no appreciable variation, except 

 slightly in the strength of the markings on the border. May 

 possibly prove a local race of vulpina, Warr. (Novit. Zool. iv. 

 123), from West Africa. 



Zamarada piirimargo, n. sp. 



? , 29 mm. Face and palpus rufous mixed with pale ochreous. 

 Vertex and antenna pale ochreous. Occiput %Yith thorax and abdo- 

 men dorsally bright rufous with slight violet reflections. 



Fore wing very pale, translucent yellow-green, with hyaline 

 reflections, veins yellower ; costa to SO pale ochreous, except at 

 base ; a small red basal patch, a distal border of about the same 

 breadth as in the preceding species, of a delicate rufous with a 

 slight admixture of shining violet scales, without traces of pale or 

 dark markings, and with only a comparatively shallow, rounded 

 sinus (narrowing the border by less than half its width) between 

 R* and M'^ Hind wing similar excepting costa, but the basal patch 

 much smaller and the proximal edge of the red border running 

 obliquely after the sinus, so as to reach inner margin at middle. 

 Fringes pale yellowish, tinged with red proximally. Under side 

 quite similar, somewhat more washed-out. 



Selukwe, October 20fcli-27tb, 1911 ; type in coll. L. B. Prout. 

 A co-type, precisely similar, but with minute discal dots, which 

 are virtually obsolete in the type, Lilongwe district, Central 

 Angoniland," 4-5000 ft., June 2nd, 1910 (S. A. Neave) in coll. 

 Brit. Mus. 



Perhaps nearest to pyrocincta ab. 1 of Hampson (Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1910, p. 470), but with larger basal patch, terminal 

 bands broader, more devoid of markings, and at inner margin 

 of hind wing quite differently shaped. 



Zamarada nehidimargo, n. sp. 



c? , 27-29 mm. Face and palpus ochreous, mixed with reddish 

 fuscous. Vertex, antenna, and dorsal surface of body the same, body 

 beneath and legs (excepting upper and inner side of fore leg) without 

 fuscous admixture. 



