128 HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD ON LEPIDOPTERA 



704. Heterocnephes scapulalis Led. 



Heterocnephes scapulalis Lederer, Wien. Ent. Mon., vii. 1863, p. 402. pL 14, f. 5 (Aniboina). 



1 ? Base Camp, March 1913 ; 1 3 Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912. 



705. Agrotera ignepictoides sp. nov. 



cj. Antennae brown; head and thorax yellow, suffused and blotched with scarlet; 

 abdomen, basal segment cinnamon dotted with scarlet, second and third segments 

 scarlet spotted with yellow, segments 3, 4 and 5 bright cinnamon, rest greyish 

 cinnamon. Forewing,- basal I yellow closely spotted with scarlet, rest of wing pale 

 cinnamon mauve washed with grey-brown at and near apex ; on, beyond, and below 

 apex of cell a large irregular scarlet patch surrounded on three sides by a smoky 

 brown-black ill-defined blotch and with a yellow streak and dot ; discocellular 

 veinlets, a dot on centre of vein 1 and a sinuated postmedian line of dots from costa 

 to vein 5 black. Hindwing, baso-costal ^ of wing cream-colour, rest pale cinnamon 

 mauve ; a postmedian row of small dots from costa to vein 4 black ; abdominal area 

 buff, beyond it an irregular longitudinal scarlet patch with a yellow dot, and a black 

 line running from its lower end to middle of vein 2. This species is close to ignepicta 

 Hmpsn., but larger, and the scarlet markings more extended and differently placed. 



Expanse 28 mm. Length of forewing 12 mm. 



1 S Base Camp, Jan. 1913. 



706. Agrotera coelatalis (Walk.) 



Nistra coelatalis Walker, List Lrp. Ins. Brit. Mils., xvii. p. 488 (1859) (Ceylon). 

 1 a Base Camp, March 1913. 



707. Desmia discrepans dissimulalis subsp. nov. 



3. Dift'ers from d. discrepans in the outer white spot on forewing being narrower and 

 produced into a bent flagellum under subcostal vein ; it also differs in the outer white 

 spot on hindwing being much rounder, not abruptly straight-edged on the inner side. 



5 cJo^ Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Dec. 1912— Jan. 1913. 



708. Pagyda botydalis (Snell.) 



Glyphodes hotydalis Snellen, in Veth, Miihlm-Sumalra, p. 69, pi. 5, f. 9 (1880) (Sumatra). 



1 cJ Utakwa River, 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



709. Pagyda traducalis (Zell.) 



Eudioptis traducalis Zeller, Lcp. Caffr., p. .54 (1852) (Cafiraria). 



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



