564 Colonel C. Swinhoe on the Gcomctridi& of 

 Chrysocraspeda planaria, nov. 



?. Antennae yellow; palpi, head, body, and wings dull pale 

 purplish-chocolate colour, very uniform throughout ; hinder mar- 

 ginal line of fore-wings white ; cilia of both wings bright yellow 

 with white tips ; a very small white dot with a black point at the 

 end of each cell, no other markings above or below ; under-side paler, 

 cilia white. 



Expanse of wings \^^ inches. 



Hob. Madagascar {Coivan). 



Genus Problepsis, Led., Verb, zool.-bot. Ges., Wien, 1852, 

 Abh,, p. 74 (1853). 



Problepsis ^gretta. 



ProUcpsis segretta, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep., pi. 128, f. 14 



(1876). 

 Argyris latonaria, var. Walker, xxiii, 807 (1861). 

 Problepsis digammata, Warr., Nov. Zool., iv, p. 59 (1897). 



1 ^ , E. Quaso, Masai, Brit. E. Africa. 1 ? , Mt. Molo, 

 mile 480, Uganda Railway. 



Both types from S. Africa are in coll. Rothschild, and 

 there are three examples from Natal in the B. M. 



Problepsis vestalis. 



Argyris vestalis, Butler, Ann. Mag. N. H. (4), xvi, p. 419 

 (1875). 



2 $, Eb Urru, Brit. E. Africa. 



Butler's type, a male from Natal, is in this Museum, as 

 also are several other examples from South Africa ; this 

 insect has heretofore stood in collections as pythiaria, 

 Guen., the type of which came from Abyssinia, and is 

 very different. 



Problepsis flavistigma, nov. 



(J. Paljii black above, antenn.ie ochreous, head, body, and wings 

 white ; a somewhat ear-shaped ocellus at the end of each cell, ringed 

 with raised silvery scales ; on the fore- wing the upper half of the 

 ocellus is ringed with black, with only a few silvery scales on that 

 colour; a discal ochreous-grey transverse line on both wings; a 

 sub-marginal macular line, the spots on the hind-wings the most 



