382 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 



spots on the nervures in the middle of the border, 5 in the 

 male and 6 or 7 in the female. 



Parumbira, Lake Nyasa, Nov. 8-10, 1894. 



Seven specimens obtained. Closely allied to^. monteironis, 

 Butl., from Delagoa Bay, except in colour. Druce does not 

 mention the peculiar washed-out colour of A. monteironis in 

 his description, but it is shown in the figure in Waterhouse's 

 * Aid,' ii. pi. clxxii. fig. 2. 



22. Aletis Erici, sp. n. 



Exp. 65 lin. 



Female. — Body black ; head and thorax spotted with white ; 

 abdomen with three rows of white spots above ; legs reddish ; 

 proboscis and abdomen beneath orange-tawny. Wings 

 rather pale orange-tawny (perhaps faded) : fore wings 

 with a broad black border, with a broad oblique subapical 

 white band and 3 white spots below it, the first linear : hind 

 wings with a rather narrow black border marked with 7 or 8 

 moderate-sized white spots on the nervures. 



Port Alice, July 19, 1894. 



23. Pitthea trifasciata. 



Pitthea trifasciata, Dewitz, Verb. Leop.-Carol. Akad. xlii. p. 82, pi. iii. 

 fig. 3 (1881). 



Uganda, Dec. 29, 1894. 

 Several specimens obtained. 



24. Secusi'o pai^vipuncfa. 



Secusio parvipuncta, Hampson, 111. Lep. Het. B. M. viii. p. 46, 

 pi. cxxxix. tig. 16 (1891). 



Tsavo, April 2, 1894. 



One specimen only. A common species in India and East 

 Africa. 



Genus Neuroxena, nov. 



Body moderately slender ; head and abdomen narrower 

 than the thorax. Antennae slender, slightly serrated. Palpi 

 extending a little beyond the head, the last joint conical 

 and pointed. Fore wings oval, the costa arched ; the 

 hind margin regularly curved, hardly oblique, the angles 

 rounded off. Hind wings rounded, as broad and nearly as 

 long as the fore wings. Fore wings with the subcostal nervure 

 apparently 5-branched, but difficult to distinguish owing to 

 the dense scaling. Cell very long and broad, bisected by a 



