848 DR. A. G. BUTLER OX LKPIDOPTERA [Nov. 1 7, 



primaries with two conspicuous black spots at the end of the cell ; 

 secondaries with a fairly broad smoky black border ; body smoky 

 black ; shaft of antennae, head, collar, shoulders, and anal tuft 

 ochreous : wings below paler than above, primaries with a large 

 almost semicircular subapical blackish patch from end of cell ; body 

 below ochreous, blackish at the sides. Expanse of wings 27 

 millim. 



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



"Day flier" (R. G'.). 



The sexes in this genus differ so much that it would not greatly 

 surprise me to discover that the following form was the female of 

 A. bistiymigera : at the same time, as Sir Greorge Hampson points 

 out, the pattern is so dissimilar that it would be absurd to put the 

 two together without trustworthy proof of their identity: then 

 again it is just as likely that A. ochraceata (which we have received 

 from Zomba) may be the female of this species, inasmuch as it often 

 has two spots at the end of the cell of primaries, though in other 

 respects it is utterly dissimilar. 



141. AROA CHARAX, Druce. (Plate XLII. fig. 8.) 



5 . Upper surface tawny orange with broad smoky brown outer 

 borders, that of the primaries occupying the apical third of the 

 wing and crossed by blackish veins (which colouring commences on 

 the orange area) ; border oi: secondaries abruptly narrowed towards 

 anal angle ; fringes sericeous, dark grey ; a conspicuous black spot 

 at the end of each discoidal cell ; primaries with narrow dusky 

 costal margin, three small black spots across the base ; antennae 

 and third joint of palpi black ; abdomen paler than thorax, golden 

 ochreous with a dorsal series of black spots : wings below nearly 

 as above, no subbasal spots on the primaries : body below bright 

 ochreous ; tarsi of ail the legs and tibiae of front and middle pairs 

 black. Expanse of wings 43 millim. 

 Deep Bay, April 30th, 1895. 



142. LYMANTRIA BANAXJE, sp. n. (Plate XLII. fig. 9.) 



c? . Primaries semitransparent cream-coloured, the basal third 

 smoky brown, bisiuuated in front ; costa to end of cell the same 

 colour confluent with a constricted Y-shaped bar which crosses 

 the end of the cell ; an oblique zigzag smoky-brown line, incurved 

 towards costa, across the disc ; a marginal irregular patch of the 

 same colour near apex, and a second at external angle, also an 

 intermediate small triangular intermediate spot ; veins, excepting 

 from the end of the cell to the. apex, partly brown and partly 

 blackish; and all the veins as they cross the zigzag line blackish : 

 secondaries semitransparent pale golden ochreous, more opaque and 

 more distinctly ochreous on abdominal two-fifths : body above 

 tawny ochraceous, palest at the extremities, somewhat vinaceous on 

 the thorax ; antennae and tips of palpal joints black : under surface 

 of wings immaculate ; body cream-coloured, a few orange hairs on 

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