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261. Ophthalmis lincea lincea (Cram.) :, 



Gcomrirn lincra Cramer, Pap. Exot., iii., pi. 228r. (ITTil) (Aiiihoina). 



3 <J^ 4 ?? Base Camp, Nov. 1912— March 1913 ; 1 ? Canoe Camp, Ucc. 1912 ; 2 d'J 

 1 ? Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Jan.— Feb. 1913. 



262. Argyrolepidia fractus (Rotli,s?h.) 



Phalacnoidcs jraclus Rothschild, Nov. Zool., vi. p. 432 (1899) (Kapaur). 

 1 ? Base Camp, March 1913. 



263. Argyrolepidia aurea fervida Jord. 



Argyrolepidia aurea fervida .lordan, Seitz, Grossschm. der Erde, Bd. H, p. 24 (1912) (Oetakwa River). 

 1 ? Base Camp, Dec. 1912 ; 1 S Canoe Camp, Nov. 1912 ; 2 ?9 Utakwa River, 2500- 

 3000 ft., Dec. 1912. 



264. Argyrolepidia megisto (Boisd.) 



Agarista megisto Boisduval, Voij. Astrolabe, Lep., p. 179, pi. v., f. 5 (18.32) (Dorey). 



Considering the great variability of this sjaecies, this series of 23 specimens is re- 

 markably constant, 22 only differing inter se in the sharpness or otherwise of the grey 

 nervular streaks ; the 23rd specimen stands half way between typical megisto and the 

 form neurogramnm Meyr. 



16 <So 3 ?? Base Camp, Nov. 1912— March 1913 ; 3 <S>S 1 ? Canoe Camp, Nov.— Dec. 

 1912. 



NOCTUIDAE 



Of this family Dr. Wollaston obtained 111 species, of which 54 species and 6 sub- 

 species are new. 



TIadeninae 

 Tlierc are 5 species of this subfamily in the collection, of which 2 are new. 



265. Elusa furunculoides (Pag.) 



Callopistria /urunculoides Pafieiisteclier, in Chun, Zoologira, x.xix. p. 74 (19()(i) (New Pomerania), 



1 <J Base Camp, Dec. 1912 ; 3 ?? Utakwa River, 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



266. Elusa affinis sp. nov. 

 6. Antennae pectinated wood-brown ; head wood-brown ; thorax chocolate brown, 

 abdomen wood-brown, a large maroon red tuft on 4th segment, anal tuft buif Fore- 

 wing blackish chocolate washed here and there with maroon; a large apical patch, 

 a subcostal median spot and various large ill-defined spots along and below vein 1 



