844 DR. A. G. BTJTLER. Otf LEPIDOPTERA [Xov. 17, 



"About as common, perhaps, as the 'Cream-spot tiger' in 

 Great Britain. Emerald-green ova " (E. C.}. 



The first example that I have seen of this pretty species. 



126. 



. Pristocercea ? inclusa, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. 1895, p. 357, 

 Taf. ii. fig. 5. 



c? , Virauli Mountain, Nyasa to Tanganyika plateau, Dec. 14th, 

 1895. 



" Fairly plentiful" (R. C.). 



Quite new to the Museum series : Mr. Kirby is of opinion that 

 it is the same as Metagarista rendalli, Rothseh., and it is quite 

 possible that he may be correct. 



127. uiEGOCEBA MENETA. 



Noctua meneta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. Ixx. D (1775). 

 Kondowi, 4000 feet alt., Nyika, Feb. 21st, 1896. 



128. CHAEILINA AMABILIS. 



Noctua amabilis, Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 13. fig. 3 (1773). 

 Deep Bay, Feb. 10th and 13th, 1896. 



129. ZANA SPUECATA. 



Aniheua spurcata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxxi. p. 298 (1864). 

 $ , Mweniwanda's, Nyasa to Tanganyika plateau, Dec. loth, 1895. 



130. PHALEBA LATIPEXNIS, sp. n. (Plate XLII. fig. 3.) 



c? . Broader in the wings than any other species of the genus ; 

 the antennae broadly pectinated as in P. argentifera ; the upper 

 radial of the primaries springing from the anterior angle of the 

 cell, instead of from the subcostal ; general scheme of colouring 

 recalling P. flavescens. Primaries above creamy white ; base of 

 costa sprinkled with black and brick-red scales ; a band of red 

 scales crossing the wing at about basal third and followed imme- 

 diately by a band of black scales, both divided by the pale nervures; 

 two or three ill-defined greyish and testaceous stripes across the 

 middle of the wing ; at external two-sevenths is a broad belt almost 

 parallel to outer margin, consisting first of a subangulated oblique 

 series of black luuules, immediately followed by a more or less 

 lunulate brick-red stripe, somewhat blackish in the centre, and 

 lastly by a grey band irrorated with black and separating into vague 

 lunules towards apex ; a few ill-defined submarginal spots of black 

 scales : secondaries sericeous ochreous, veins dusty, becoming black 

 at apex and on outer margin : head, collar, and centre of thorax 

 brownish ochreous ; antennae black ; pterygodes and metathorax 

 white, somewhat ochreous at the sides ; an oblique black bar on 

 the front of the pterygodes ; abdomen reddish ochreous, with grey 

 dorsal patches on each segment. Wings below ochreous, the veins 

 chiefly black beyond the middle ; the primaries from bevond the 

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