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/ Neptlcula filipendulcB, Wk. ; Traus. Chich. & W. Sussex N. H. Soc. 

 No. 5 (1886). 

 Neptlcula fuh/ejts, Sta. ; E. M. M. xxv. 12. 

 Nepticula qei, Wk. 



[lei, Stand. ; Lep. Dorset, ed. 2, p. 73 (1891). 

 aurella var. ? 

 Nepticula Jio(l(/kinso7ii, Sta.; E. M. M. xxi. 103; Entom. xvii. 281. 

 Nepticula nijlandriella, Teugst. ; E. M. M. xxii. 65. 

 Nepticula pyri, Glitz. ; E, M. M. xxvi. 88. 

 Nepticula ruhivora, Wk. ; E. M. M. xx. 188. 

 Nepticula serella, Sta. ; E. M. M. xxiv. 260. 

 Nepticula tormmalis, Wood; E, M. M. xxvi. 209. 

 Nepticula woolhopiella, Sta. ; E. M. M. xxiv. 62. 



MALE CYCLOPIDES MINENI. 

 By Philip de la Garde, F.E.S. 



A MALE example of this species was caught hy me at 

 Mombasa in July of this year, and has been kindly identified by 

 Mr. Trimen, Curator of the South African Museum, who gives 

 the following description : — A mnle of Cyclopides mineni, Trim., 

 taken at Mom.basa in July, 1894, by Mr. P. de la Garde, K.N., 

 expands 11 lin., while the tj'pe specimen (apparently a female) 

 taken in Manica by Mr. F. (J. Selous expands 1 in. 2|- lin. The 

 Mombasa specimen further differs from the type in having on both 

 upper and under sides of the fore wing a ninth (costal) spot in 

 the discal series, while the lower of the two disco-cellular spots, 

 though present on the under side, is wanting on the upper side ; 

 and on the under side of the hind wing both the sub-basal 

 spot and the disco-cellular spot are conspicuously centred with 

 white. 



I much regret I am unable to state what shrub this insect 

 was caught amongst, owing to absolute ignorance at the time 

 of its being a new species, and I therefore took no special note 

 of surroundings. 



Mr. Trimen tells me that the original description and figure 

 of Mr. Selous' example appeared in Proc. Zool. Soc. 1894, p. 72, 

 PI. vi. f. 16. 



H.M.S. • Ealeigh,' Simons' Bay, Sept. 27th, 1894. 



ENTOM. — DEC. 1894. ' 2 F 



