392 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 



Allied to Hypopyra Boseij Saalmiiller, from Madagascar 

 (which is placed in Maxula in the British Museum collection), 

 but its smaller size and rosy tinge give it more the general 

 appearance of some varieties of Hypopyra vespertilio, Fabr. 

 The teeth of the antennae, too, are much more regular and 

 conspicuous, and the joints are very distinctly separated ; nor 

 do the antennge taper as in H. Bosei, which, however, should 

 probably form a genus equally distinct from Maxula and 

 Pyraviarista. 



Parumbira, Lake Nyasa, Nov. 15, 1893. 



A single worn specimen ; but the species is of so much 

 interest that I was unwilling not to describe it. 



61. Maxula africana^ sp. n. 



Exp. 45-53 millim. 



il/aZe.— -Wings grey, dusted with black, with a submar- 

 ginal white stripe running from within the costa of the fore 

 wings to the hinder angle, and from the tip to the anal angle 

 of the hind wings ; this line is bordered on both sides with 

 dusky, and is followed on its inner side by a space nearly 

 free Ironi black specks, as is also the cell of the fore wings ; 

 the space between this line and the hind margin is darker 

 than the rest of the wings, and there is a row of black spots 

 between the nervures towards the hind margin, and the 

 marginal one is also marked by a darker patch below the 

 middle on all the wings. Fore wings with four black costal 

 spots, increasing in size from the base ; the basal one is the 

 outermost of a row of three at the base, progressively smaller 

 and more basal as they descend; under the second are some 

 black dashes towards the inner margin ; the third surmounts 

 a very large brown irregularly ampuUiforrn blotch, surrounded 

 by a black line, the neck of which is widened above, and 

 bounds the end of the cell, expanding beneath into the flask- 

 shaped spot ; the fourth is followed below by a row of five 

 small black spots (the fourth nearer the margin than the 

 others), which nearly reach the outer edge of the large spot; 

 about the middle of the inner margin is a black dash, forming 

 the commencement of an oblique blackish stripe which crosses 

 the hind wing before the middle; costa and inner margin of 

 the hind wings, including the long fringes of the latter, rosy. 

 Underside orange-tawny, with three rows of black spots, the 

 inner row incomplete on the lower part of the fore wings and 

 on the upper part of the hind wings, and the outer row 

 punctiform ; there is a black lunule at the end of the cell of 

 the fore wings, and two small blackish marks at a point 



