462 Prof. Zeller’s Descriptrons 
flexuose hinder margin of the anterior wings shows that the genera 
Simacthis and Choreules cannot properly be kept separate. 
Anterior wings pointed, bright yellow-brown, inclining to red- 
dish posteriorly ; before the middle of the wing is a broad grey 
transverse streak; the posterior transverse line is slender, black 
and sharply angulated. The posterior wings are ferruginous, the 
costa narrowly grey-brown. 
One specimen taken in a garden at Cairo, 
Scua@nosius Nixoricus, n. sp. (PI. XXIV. fig. 2.) 
Alis anterioribus subacutis, lutescentibus, costa punctisque mar- 
ginis postici nigris, puncto ven transverse albo nigro- 
cincto, liturd ex cost& ante apicem fusci; posterioribus 
albidis, serie transversa posticé macularum fuscescentium. ¢ - 
Long. alar. ant. lin. 43. 
Anterior wings rather pointed, luteous-yellow, the costa and 
spots on the hinder margin black ; on the transverse vein is a 
white spot, surrounded with black ; a brown blotch from the costa 
before the apex; posterior wings whitish, posteriorly with a 
transverse row of brownish spots. ¢. 
Very like S. gigantcllus, but quite a dwarf, and certainly dis- 
tinguished by the shorter palpi, and the rather more pointed an- 
terior wings. Moreover, gigantellus has on the anterior wings, at 
each end of the transverse vein, a black spot; instead of this, in 
Niloticus we see, at the lower end of the transverse vein, a black 
spot with a white pupil; it has also a black costal line, and larger, 
almost confluent, black spots along the hind margin. 
The anterior wings are luteous-yellow, irrorated with brown. 
A brown blotch, which starts from the costa before the apex, runs 
almost parallel to the hind margin, and ceases before the inner 
margin. Posterior wings whitish, with a brownish shady streak, 
formed of separate spots, before the darker apex of the wing. 
Taken at Alexandria. 
ERoMENE OCELLEA, Haworth. 
Zeller, Chil. et Cramb, Genera, p. 54; H.-S. fig. 144, 145. 
One female has the dark-coloured posterior wings of Herrich- 
Schaffer’s fig. 145. 
(A pair from Palestine have the pale posterior wings of 
fig. 144; vide ante, p. 455.) 
