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of the fore wings is broken into spots by the veins, and by 

 transverse dusky markings. There are no black spots at the 

 base. 



The genus Alana only comprises two little species from 

 Central and Southern Africa, which do not expand much 

 more than an inch at the outside. A. Amazoula, Boisd,, 

 from Natal, is taken flying among long grass, like a skipper, 

 which it also resembles in coloration, being brown, with a 

 row of elongated tawny spots on the hind margins, and 

 longer ones running from the bases and inner margins of the 

 wings ; the under side is more uniformly yellowish, paler, 

 and divided by thenervures, but there are no black spots. 



The South American genus Actinote, which is likewise 

 destitute of basal spots, and in which the hind wings are 

 always very distinctly striated, at least on the under surface, 

 may be divided into two groups. In the first, represented 

 by A. Thalia, L., the fore wings are brown, tawny, yellowish, 

 or reddish at the base and inner margin, more or less divided 

 into spots by the veins, and with a transverse paler band 

 near the lip ; the hind wings are of the same colour as the 

 base of the fore wings, divided by the nervures, and often by 

 intermediate black lines, with a rather broad, black hind 

 margin. A. Thalia, being apparently a protected species, is 

 mimicked by several other Lepidoptera, among which is a 

 Dismorphia {Pierirt(e) and a Castnia (a moth). In the 

 second group the wings are bluish black, and the hind wings 

 are unspotted above, though with short diverging yellow 

 streaks at the base beneath in several species; the fore wings 

 have the centre of the wings pink or red, the colour generally 

 extending to the base, and there is sometimes a transverse 

 band of the same colour beyond the red portion. In 

 A. Neleiis, Latr., the red basal portion of the other species is 

 replaced with a shade of blue, rather paler than the ground 

 colour, but, on the other hand, the abdomen is reddish. In 

 A. Leucomelas, Bates, the fore wings are bluish black, with 

 two or three long yellowish streaks placed obliquely at the 

 extremity of the cell. 



NOTES ON ARCTIA LUBRICIPEDA.=:= 



By Edwin Birchall, F.L.S. 



The larva occurs in great profusion in the Isle of Man, 

 but I have met with comparatively few of the perfect insect; 

 and in order to learn whether this scarcity was real or only 

 * Re*d before the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



