From the ANNALS AND MAGAZINE OP NATURAL HISTORY, 

 Ser. 6, Vol. xviii., August 1896. 



Descriptions of some new Lepidoptera from Nyasaland. 

 By ARTHUR G. BUTLER, Ph.D., F.L.S., &c. 



AMONGST the new species in three series of Lepidoptera 

 recently collected for the Museum by Mr. R. Crawshay the 

 following interesting forms may be at once described : 



Planema scalimliata^ sp. n. 



c. Nearest to P. agamce, having the same form and 

 general coloration, but with entirely different banding, the 

 curious almost sigmoidal band and spot on the primaries 

 being replaced by a short quinquefid dull white transverse bar 

 from the costal to the median vein beyond the cell, and a 

 notched or subangulated transverse dull white bar, obliquely 

 below which is a small spot nearer to the outer margin, the 

 two spots being separated by the second median branch ; the 

 band of the secondaries is narrower and tapers much more 



