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edged on the inner side with a narrow grey Hne. Outer third of 

 wings chestnut, freckled with black like forewing. 



Underside : ante-median bands absent ; eye-spot of forewing 

 as large as above, but with a black ring between the tawny ochra- 

 ceous central ring and outer whitish-pink one. Hindwing from 

 post-discal black line towards base pinkish-grey ; eye-spot reduced 

 to a vitreous dot surrounded by a broad tawny ochraceous ring. 



Antennae dark brown ; basal part of stalk yellow. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen tawny ochraceous. 



Size as Nudaurelia nictitans Fabricius. 



Of this rare moth only one specimen, a male, has been 

 caught, at Masindi, in Unyoro, in the Uganda Protectorate, on 

 April 30, 1897. 



PseudapJielia ansorgei, sp. nov. (Plate I. fig. 8). 



It belongs to the family Saturniidae. 



The two spots at the end of the cell of both wings of 

 apollinaris are absent in ansorgei, being replaced on both wings 

 by a black dot just behind the origin of vein 5, which has, however, 

 on the underside a yellow centre ; fringe fuscous. Post-discal line 

 of hindwing closer to cell than to outer margin of wing. 



It was caught at Masindi, in Unyoro, in the Uganda Pro- 

 tectorate, on April 15, 1897. 



(H) Two moths (described by Mr. W. Warren, M.A., F.E.S.). 

 Vide " Novitates Zoologicae," vol. v. March 1898. 



XanthorJioc conchata, sp. nov. 



It belongs to the sub-family Hydriomeninie. 



Forewings : with the ground-colour yellowish-white, suffused 

 and dusted with fulvous, and crossed by numerous darker 

 tremulous lines ; cell-spot black ; pairs of small black dashes 

 along the margin at the ends of the veins. 



Hindwings : whitish, with dark cell-spot and exceedingly 

 faint traces of a dark post-median line ; fringe yellowish, with the 

 marginal spots as in forewings. 



Palpi long, thick, and roughly haired. Thorax and abdomen 

 greyish-ochreous ; the face and palpi brownish. Expanse : 

 26 millim. 



Two males were caught in Nandi, in the Uganda Protectorate, 

 in December 1896. 



