268 DE. A. G. BUTLEE ON LEPIDOPTEEA [Mar. 19, 



white ; venter with whity-brown basal segment, otherwise oehra- 

 ceous barred with black-brown. Expanse of wings 49 millim. 



2 Primaries of a clearer yellowish tint than in the male, and 

 with silvery scales sprinkled over the subbasal red markings and 

 within the black annular markings : secondaries ochreous ; a black 

 curved bar on the discocellulars ; outer border black, enclosing six 

 ochreous spots and suffused, near anal angle, with ferruginous. 

 Under surface ochreous, the external border bounded by a black stripe 

 throughout and divided into elongated spots by black nervures ; 

 primaries with three blackish nearly central patches, answering 

 to the annular markings of the upper surface ; secondaries with the 

 discocellular bar as above, and two small black spots in the cell : 

 body below black, spotted with cream-colour and ochreous. 

 Expanse of wings 53 millim. 



Ewambo. 



One male and two females were obtained. The male most 

 nearly resembles Pais gordoni when the wings are open ; the 

 female when they are closed, owing to the ochreous colouring of 

 its secondaries. 



69. GNOPHEIA(?) FUECIFASCIATA, sp. n. (Pla,te XVI. fig. 5.) 



$ . Primaries above silvery cream- white ; the costal margin, 

 fringe of outer margin, an irregular stripe before the middle 

 elbowed just above the submedian vein, and a sigmoidal stripe 

 commencing near apex and terminating at outer third of inner 

 margin, with an inner subsigmoidal fork from median vein to outer 

 fifth of costal margin, jet-black : the secondaries clear bright 

 straw-yellow : body ochreous, the abdomen barred with blackish. 

 Primaries below smoky grey, the borders irregularly ochreous, 

 interrupted on the costa towards apex by two transverse bars of 

 the ground-colour, so as to leave a subapical quadrifid ochreous 

 patch : secondaries ochreous or straw-yellow, with a tapering 

 subapical bar from costa : body below ochreous ; tarsi and venter 

 barred with black. Expanse of wings 51 millim. 



Ewambo. 



Of this very striking species we only received one imperfect 

 specimen wanting a head : doubtless it is not, strictly speaking, a 

 Gnophria, but an allied new genus, the lower radial of the primaries 

 being independently emitted from the inferior angle of the cell 

 instead of from the third median branch ; but in the secondaries 

 the radial forms a very short furca with the extremity of the 

 third median branch, the footstalk occupying about three-fourths 

 of the distance between the cell and the margin ; with only an 

 imperfect female, however, it would be premature to propose a new 

 genus for its reception. 



70. ALPENTTS ^QCJALIS, var. 



Alpenus cequalis, Walker, Lep. Het. iii. p. 686 (1855). 



Ewambo. 



Eastern examples differ from the Western type in having the 



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