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corresponding to the centre of the flask-sliaped 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 ; tibias 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 the fore wings visible ; tlie 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 brown. 



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



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

 strigatn^ 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 Hypopyra from 

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

 female of our Pyramarista rufescens. 



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. 



Ophiusidae. 



64. Sphingomorpha monteironis. 



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

 p. 40B (1875). 



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

 Several specimens. 



65. Pseudophis iirJiaca. 

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

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



