266 DE. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [Mar. 19, 



in primaries : legs brown, paler internally ; venter whitish. 

 Expanse of wings 30 millim. 



A pair, F warn bo. 



I have failed to discover any published description of this species. 



63. HESPERIA ?, sp. ? 



It is impossible to fix even the generic position of this species with 

 certainty, as it has lost its palpi ; but it appears to be allied to 

 "Proteides xychus" Mabille, of which it may possibly be the male ; 

 the antennae are white above. 



c? , Fwarnbo. 



HETEROCERA. 



64. XANTHOSPILOPTERYX AFRICANA. 



Eusemia africana, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xv. 

 p. 142 (1875). 



Eusemia meretrix^ Westwood in Oates's ' Matabele Land/ p. 355 

 (1881). 



, Zomba. 



Two somewhat worn specimens were obtained. 



65. ANOMjEOTES NIGRIVENOSUS. 



$ . Anomceotes nigrivenosus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 676, pi. Ix. 

 fig. 10. 



cJ. Smaller than the female, creamy pale straw-yellow, with 

 blackish veins and edges to the wings ; thorax blackish brown ; 

 abdomen golden yellow, becoming tawny on the margins of the 

 segments ; pectus and legs brown, venter pale yellow ; clasps 

 ochraceous brown, shining. Expanse of wings 28 millim. 



c? $ , Fwambo. 



Two males and one female, the latter slightly longer in wing 

 and with blacker thorax than the type ; the front of the discoidal 

 cell of the secondaries also projects slightly more prominently 

 forward in this example ; but slight variations of neuration may 

 be expected to occur in this group of Moths. 



66. ARGINA LEONINA (=A. AMANDA, var., Boisd.). 

 Deiopeia leonina. Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxxi. p. 262 (1864). 

 c? , Ewambo. 



67. ARGINA OCELLINA. 



Deiopeia ocellina, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 571. n. 9 (1854). 



c? , Fwambo. 



The single example of this form has the ground-colour of the 

 primaries white, thus bearing out the opinion which I have long 

 held that in Africa there is only one species of this genus, of 

 which the synonymy would be as follows : 



ARGINA AMANDA. 



Euchelia amanda, Boisduval, Voy. de Deleg. ii. p. 597 (1847). 

 Deiopeia cingulifera, Walker, Lep. Het. ii. p. 569 (1854). 

 Deiopeia ocellina, Walker, 1. c. p. 571. 

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