1895.] FROM BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 269 



annular markings on the primaries filled in with black and partly 

 confluent towards costa; in all probability a series collected right 

 across Africa from wast to east would exhibit every grade from 

 one type to the other : it is also extremely probable that A. cequalis 

 will prove to be quite inseparable from A. maculosus of Stoll, which 

 only differs in its finer maculation. 



71. PLERETES THELWALLI. 



Hypercompa thelwalli, Druce, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 779, pi. 61. fig. 1. 



Zomba. 



One female was obtained. 



72. LECHRIOLEPIS VARIA. 



Amydona varia, Walker, Lep. Het. vi. p. 1414 (1855). 



Fwambo. 



A most brilliantly coloured species when in good condition. 



73. LEBEDA VENOSA, sp. n. (Plate XVI. fig. 6.) 



Primaries to beyond the middle greyish flesh-colour, beyond 

 which they are darker brownish flesh-colour ; the costa and all the 

 veins deep ochreous ; two ill-defined whitish stripes, the first 

 transverse, straight, crossing the centre of the paler basal area, the 

 other oblique, bounding the basal area beyond the middle ; an ill- 

 defined pale spot in the upper angle of the cell and an irregular 

 discal series of whitish spots or lunules, with greyer external 

 borders ; fringe cream-coloured : secondaries brownish flesh- 

 coloured, shading into ochraceous buff towards base and abdominal 

 margin ; veins and fringe as on the primaries : thorax pinky 

 ochraceous, deeper at centre of collar and base of pterygodes ; 

 sides of collar greyish ; antennae greyish flesh-coloured, abdomen 

 oehraceous buff. Wings below greyish flesh-coloured, with the 

 veins, margins, and basal hairy clothing ochreous; body below 

 ochreous. Expanse of wings, d 81 millim., $ 70 millim. 



F warn bo. 



I had an idea that I had seen an illustration of this species, but 

 finally discovered that Moeschler's Philotherma jacchus was the 

 insect I was thinking of. The primaries of the latter are very- 

 similar, both in general coloration and pattern, to L. venosa, but 

 the secondaries are entirely different both in form and coloration. 



74. HlBRILDES NORAX. 



Hibrildes norax, Druce, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 675. 

 $ , Fwambo. 

 One much-worn example was obtained. 



75. TANOROPSIS FLAYINATA. 



Dreataflavinata^ Walker, Lep. Het. xxxii. p. 573 (1865). 

 $ , Fwambo. 



A slightly aberrant example, though apparently hardly referable 

 to a distinct species. 



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