388 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 



a white (or vitreous?) spot bordered with blackish, beyond 

 which is an oblique yellow stripe bordered outside with 

 brown, but no festooned submarginal line. 



I see no reason to regard this moth as the male of L. selene ; 

 but when these species are better known I expect it will 

 prove to belong to the same genus, or to an allied one. 



LasiocampidaB. 



45. Jana Mariana. 

 Bombyx Mariana, White, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. xii. p. 264 (1843). 



Captured October 26. 



A female specimen of large size (exp. 150 millim.), but 

 not otherwise differing materially from the type from the 

 Congo. 



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46. Hihrildes Ansorgei^ sp. n. (PI. XIX. fig. 7.) 



Exp. 60 millim. 



Female. — Body reddish brown ; antennse strongly bipec- 

 tinated ; face orange ; thorax white in front and on the sides ; 

 abdomen with an orange band on the back, expanding at the 

 end of each segment, the sides whitish, bordered below with 

 an orange stripe on each side ; terminal segment orange. 

 Fore wings smoky hyaline, with black cilia ; a blackish mark 

 at the end of the cell, beyond whicii is a broad white band 

 extending nearly to the lowest median nervule, its lower part 

 connected outwardly with a row of submarginal white spots 

 between the nervures, which do not extend to the costa. 

 Hind wings tawny yellow, with a broad lunule at the end of 

 the cell ; a rather narrow black border, marked with six 

 large white spots between the nervures. 



Magwangwara, German East Africa, Jan. 19, 1864. 



Two specimens obtained. 



47. Hihrildes venosa, sp. n. (PI. XIX. fig. 4.) 



Exp. 57 millim. 



Male. — Creamy white, subhyaline, with the nervures 

 brown, incrassated, and expanded triangularly before the 

 fringes, which are also brown on the costa and hind margin 

 of all the wings, but white on the inner margins. Fore 

 wings with the costal area yellowish ; tips brownish, and 

 throwing off a short brown submarginal band, ceasing on the 

 lowest discoidal nervule, where it turns outward to the 

 margin. The fork of the discoidal nervure before the end of 



