THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Vol. LIIL] APEIL, 1920. [No. 683 



A NOTE ON SOME AFRICAN RHOPALOGERA. 

 By N. D. Riley. 



(Published by permission of the Trustees of the Natural History Museum.) 



The following has resulted from the incorporation in the 

 General Collection of the Museum of a selection of specimens 

 from the collection of the late F. C. Selous. The bulk of these 

 were taken during the East African Campaign, but a few appear 

 to belong to collections made during 1911 and 1912 in the Bahr- 

 el-Ghazel and northern British East Africa. The forms here 

 mentioned were almost certainly obtained from the last-men- 

 tioned locality. 



PlERIN.E. 



Teracolus i^hisadia, Godt., f. vcujus nov. 



<? . Size and markings as in typical T. phisadia, except that 

 both wings are almost devoid of basal grey scaling ; the black 

 spot at cell-end on fore wing has no pupil ; the basal area of 

 hind wing is uniformly pink and is bordered by a wide black 

 marginal band, the inner edge of which curves evenly and 

 parallel to hind and inner margins. 



Most closely allied to the f. ocellatus, Butler (' P. Z. S.,' 1885, 

 p. 767), with the type of which it has been compared, but readily 

 distinguished by the evenly curved inner edge of hind wing 

 marginal band and the uniformlv pink basal area of hind wing. 



B.M. Type No. Rh. 046, <?", labelled "New Moschi, East 

 Africa, March, 1916, F. C. Selous," but probably taken some- 

 where between L. Baringo and the Lorian Swamp in March, 

 1912. 



AcR.EINiE. 



On examining a short series of an Acrsea thought to be a 

 form of A. mirabiUs, Butler, it has been found that under this 

 name Butler confused two species. 



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