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I cannot follow Aiirivillius, who with a query sinks J. nobdis 

 Holland as a synonj-m of this species. His description of /. camerunica 

 is founded upon a specimen which was in the collection of the late Dr. 

 Otto Staudingor. I had the opportunity of comparing it with the 

 insect to which I gave the specific name nobilis, at that time noting that 

 it seemed to be different. J. nobilis, though one of the larger species 

 of the genus found in Africa, is smaller than J. camerunica Aurivillius, 

 has no trace of roseate or buff on the wings but is a cold gray, with dark- 

 er brown and black markings arranged very much like those in J. 

 atrigina and, moreover, has the striking difference from the other species 

 named in this note that the abdomen is annulated with black at the 

 upper end of each segment. This seems to be a characteristic which, 

 taken in connection with the totally different shade of color of the wings, 

 seems to mark it as a form distinct from J. strigina and J. camerunica. 



(641) 3. Jana gabunica Aurivillius 



Jana gabunica AvRivn.Lirs, 1892, Ent. Tidskr., XIII, p. 19.5; 1901, Bihang Kongl. 



Sv. Vet.-Akad. Handl., XXVII, Afd. IV, No. 7, p. 24. 

 Jana marmorata Holl.\xd, 1893, Psyche, VI, p. 346, PI. xx, fig. 2. 



Three males: two taken at Medje, one in August, the other in Sep- 

 tember; the tiiird specimen captured at Bafwasende in September 1909. 



Phasicnecus Butler 

 (042) 1. Phasicnecus grandiplaga, new species 



Plate XIV, Figure, 14, cf 

 cT. Antenna* whiti.sh, the pectinations fuscous; eyes pale brown; pectus and 

 the anterior pair of legs dark brown; the two posterior pairs of legs and the lower side 

 of the thorax yellowish white. The vertex is pale stramineous; the patagia are 

 bordered externally with stramineous, inwardly are dark maroon, as is also the 

 top of the thorax; the abdomen is pale gray inclining to buff, especially on the 

 lower side where there is at the middle a longitudinal row of four small dark spots. 

 The ground-color of the fore wing on the upper side is pale stramineous, passing out- 

 wardly toward the margin into pale ashen gray. The fringes are concolorous. The 

 wing is traversed by a basal, a subbasal, a median, a postmedian, and a submarginal 

 dark line, which are most clearly defined on the light area along the inner margin, but 

 are lost or more or less obscured on the darker median and costal areas of the wing. 

 The jjostmedian and submarginal lines are exceedingly irregular, and respectively 

 define outwardly and inwardly areas filled in with maroon colored scales, which form 

 on the outer border below the apex a subtriangidar spot with inwardly projecting 

 lobes on the interspaces, joined by a narrow band of the same color to the larger area 

 which covers the wing from above vein 2 to the costa, and as far marginad as the 

 postmedian line, and which is also maroon of varying degrees of intensity, except at 

 the end of the cell and just beyond it, where there is an irregularly defined patch of 

 light yellowish .scales. The hind wingisbroadly pale. stramineous in its upper half, 

 shading into pale plumbeous on the outer border and the lower half; the 



