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corresponding to the centre of the flask-shaped spot of the 

 upperside ; there is also a black spot on the discocellular 

 nervules of the hind wings. 



Head and antennas rufous-brown ; thorax and base of 

 abdomen whitish above : abdomen above and most of the 

 body beneath inclining to rosy ; femora clothed with thick 

 reddish hair; tibiae and tarsi black above. 



Female much lighter, especially on the fore wings ; the 

 submarginal line and dots present ; only the third and fourth 

 of the costal spots of tlie fore wings visible ; the third forms 

 the uppermost of a row of four black spots crossing the end 

 of the cell. Underside with only the submarginal line and 

 the lunule and spot at the end of the cells distinctly visible ; 

 body, as well as the wings, only with a very faint rosy tinge ; 

 legs browm. 



JVlagwangwara, German East Africa, Jan. 11 and 13, 1894. 



Allied to the common and variable East-Indian M. uni~ 

 strt'fjata, Guen., but without the zigzag lines and rows of 

 black dots on the disk which we meet with in that species. 



Wallengren describes two species of Hypopi/ra from 

 Caffraria, one of which — U. miniata — may prove to be the 

 female of our Pyrainarista ru/fescens. 



62. Entomogramma nigriceps. 



Renodes (?) nigriceps, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 1595. 

 n. 6 (1858). 



Uganda, Dec. 29, 1894. 



63. Entomogramma pardus. 

 Entomogramma pardus, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 205 (1852), 

 Mozambique, July 12, 1893. 



Ophiusidse. 



64. SpMngomorpha monteironis, 



Sphingomorpha monteironis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat, Hist. (4) xvi 

 p. 406 (1875). 



Parumbira, Lake Nyasa, Oct. 23, Nov. 9-14, 1893. 

 Several specimens. 



65. Pseudophis tirhaca. 

 Noctua tirhaca, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 172, fig. E (1780). 

 Magwangwara, German East Africa, Jan. 3, 1894. 



