384 Mr. W. F. Kirby on 



Iridescent white, thinly scaled, subhyaline, with two 

 silvery-white bands on the fore wings, one submarginal and 

 the other running beyond the cell and angulated beneath it ; 

 the cell and basal area are also silvery white. Antennae deeply 

 bipectinated, brownish grey ; face and front legs yellowish. 



Mtebe, July 12, 1894. 



One specimen. Allied to the Indian species R. clara, 

 Walk., and R. rinaria, Moore. 



28. Cropera pallida, sp. n. (PI. XIX. fig. 6.) 



Exp. 24-34 millim. 



Fore wings pale yellow with a slight orange tint, with 

 three or four irregular and indistinct transverse whitish bands ; 

 an orange spot in the middle of the wing and frequently some 

 blackish scaling below it, and traces of one or two blackish 

 spots towards the hind margin. Hind wings pale yellow, 

 unspotted. The female has pale yellow fore wings, hardly 

 varied with whitish, but with the central orange spot; two 

 blackish submarginal spots, one towards tlie costa and one 

 towards the inner margin ; and a greyish-brown tuft at the 

 extremity of the abdomen. 



Four specimens. 



Noted as abundant on the coast at Mozambique in 1893 : 

 the Natural History Museum has specimens from Natal and 

 Delagoa Bay. 



29. Olapa fulvinotata. 



Olapa fiihinotata, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc. Load. 1893, p. 678. 

 Magwangwara, German East Africa, Jan. 8, 1894. 

 One specimen. 



30. Cypra crocipes. 

 Cypra o'ocipes, Boisduval, Faune Madag. p. 87, pi. xii. fig. 2 (1833). 



A single specimen labelled " Uganda [Gapt. Williams),^^ 

 apparently identical with this well-known Madagascar 

 species. 



31. Rhanidophora phedonia. 

 Bombyx phedonia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. cccxlvii. fig. C (1782). 



Maungu, March 27 

 Dec. 29, 1894. 



Several specimens. 



