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between the second and first discoidal nervules ; apex darker 

 brown ; a round dark spot or brand close to the cell is marked 

 between the first and the third median nervules. 



Ei7id icing dark velvet-brown, with lighter border on the 

 hind margin. 



Underside. Basal area almost black-brown, as in M. saga ; 

 a broad submarginal border greyish or violet-brown, rather 

 lighter than the basal area, witli a strongly marked waved 

 line near the hind margin, whicli is much lighter. 



The fore wing has a light apical patch with two ocelli, the 

 first hardly visible, and a third ocellus between the second 

 and first median nervules. On the marginal border of the 

 hind wing is a row of ocelli varying very much in size and 

 placed between each nervule ; the first ocellus below the sub- 

 costal nervule, the second and third between the nervules as 

 far as the tiiird median, the fourth almost invisible, the largest 

 ocellus between the second and first median nervules, and two 

 minute ones between the first median nervule and the sub- 

 median nervure. 



A light transverse band crosses both wings from the costa 

 of the fore wing to the inner margin of the hind wing. 



^ .—Log. Mtebe, East Africa, July 12, 1894. 



Expanse 2'1 inches. 



A complete list of this collection will be published shortly. 



XXVII. — Descriptions of some neio Lepidoptera from Nyasa- 

 land. By Arthur G. Butler, Ph.D.j F.L.S., &c. 



Amongst the new species in three series of Lepidoptera 

 recently collected for the Museum by Mr. R. Crawshay the 

 follovring interesting forms may be at once described : — 



Planema scaliviltata, sp. n. 



(^ . Nearest to P. aganice, having the same form and 

 general coloration, but with entirely different banding, the 

 curious almost sigmoidal band and spot on the primaries 

 being replaced by a sliort quinquefid dull white transverse bar 

 from the costal to the median vein beyond the cell, and a 

 notched or subangulated transverse dull white bar, obliquely 

 below which is a small spot nearer to the outer margin, the 

 two spots being separated by the second median branch ; the 

 band of the secondaries is narrower and tapers much more 



