1895.] FROM BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 265 



surface is blue-black, with a broad quadrate snow-white patch 

 occupying three (not four) segments on each side and separated 

 by a broad black dorsal stripe ; looking at the insect in profile this 

 patch is seen to be united by a stripe of white to a narrower white 

 patch on the basal segment; the venter, again, is snow-white down 

 the centre, but purplish black at the sides ; the front and middle 

 coxal joints are clothed with carmine hair and the sides of the 

 pectus with delicate long white hair ; the tibial and tarsal joints 

 are white. 



Three specimens, Fvvambo. 



It is hardly probable that staining would convert three central 

 and a basal snow-white segments of the abdomen into four central 

 fulvous segments, or peacock-green into chalybeous black ; but 

 when it is noted that all the other white markings remain un- 

 changed in Westwood's insect, the chance of change by staining 

 becomes next to impossible. The Zambezi insect is probably 

 nearer to S. paradisea than is S. trimeni : thus the fulvous seg- 

 ments are accounted for. 



60. CYCLOPIDES MIDAS. (Plate XV. fig. 6.) 

 CycUpides midas, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 671. 

 cJ , Fwambo. 



61. BAORIS INCONSPICUA. 



ffesperia inconspicua, Bertoloni, Mem. Ace. Bol. 1849, p. 15. 



Fwambo. 



One starved example, with unusually brightly-coloured under 



surface. 



62. CERATRICHIA. PUNCTULATA, sp. n. (Plate XV. fig. 7.) 



Above with the general aspect of C. stellata (Cycl. mineni, 

 Trimen), black-brovvn : primaries with two superposed white dots 

 in the cell, and a slightly irregular elbowed series of eight slightly 

 larger white spots beyond the cell ; fringe greyer than the wings, 

 especially at the tips, and interrupted at its base by a series of 

 elongated whitish spots : secondaries with five indistinct whitish 

 dots in a zigzag series beyond the cell ; fringe as in the primaries : 

 abdomen black, edges of segments white laterally ; antennae with 

 white rings, the club only ringed below ; palpi greyish. Primaries 

 below blackish, the costal border and apex yellowish olive-brown, 

 traversed by whitish veins ; the white spots arranged as above 

 but larger, the elbowed series having an additional white point 

 between the seventh and eighth spots ; fringe blackish, with 

 conspicuous elongated white spots and grey tips : secondaries 

 yellowish olive-brown, with whitish veins ; the white spots larger 

 than above and seven additional spots, two bounding the middle 

 third of the subcostal area, a small one in the cell behind the 

 upper discocellular, and the other four in pairs bounding the 

 middle third of interno-median area ; an indistinct zigzag whitish 

 subinarginal line, also feebly indicated on the primaries ; fringe as 



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