426 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [May 17, 



170. BAPARSTA LIMBATA, sp. n. 



2 . Primaries above pale coffee reddish, sericeous ; the costal 

 border whity brown ; external border narrowly and unevenly pale 

 grey-brownish bounded internally by a partly zigzag, partly widely 

 sinuous, white submarginal line, the latter bounded internally towards 

 apex and towards external angle by a diffused dusky patch ; central 

 area of wing enclosed by two indistinct crenulated grey lines, the 

 inner one interrupted in the cell by a white *> orbicular ' dot ; reni- 

 form stigma also white, partly edged with leaden grey; a marginal 

 series of black dots : secondaries pale smoky brown, sericeous, 

 slightly greyer towards outer margin ; fringes of all the wings 

 grey inclining to blackish, with whity-brown basal line. Head 

 and collar whity brown, somewhat pearly ; thorax flesh-reddish ; 

 abdomen whity brown. Under surface sericeous whity brown, the 

 wings irrorated with greyish and with dusky marginal dots. 

 Expanse of wings 25 millim. 



Taru, 2nd February, 1897. 



Unfortunately only one example of this very distinct species 

 was obtained. 



171. HYPENA VTJLGATALIS. 



Hypena vulgatatis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xvi. p. 82 (1858). 

 Samburu, 2nd November, 1896. 



A single somewhat worn specimen, but new to us from Eastern 

 Africa. 



172. OPHIUCHE MASITRIALIS. 



Hypena masurialis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 38 (1854). 

 Samburu, 8th & 12th November, 1896. 



New to us from East Africa, though we have it from the North, 

 South, and West. 



173. BHYNCHINA TARUENSIS, sp. n. 



Intermediate in character between R. plusioides and E. antiqualis, 

 nearest to the latter, slightly larger and browner ; a black or dark 

 brown patch filling the interval between the black orbicular spot 

 and the linear white ' renif orm stigma,' and a second smaller black 

 spot filling the angle of the inner angulated white transverse line : 

 the costal and discal black spots of R. antiqualis almost or wholly 

 obliterated ; no irregular submarginal white line as in that species, 

 but the external border faintly dusted with ashy-white scales; 

 marginal line brown, scarcely discernible : in other respects the 

 two species are almost- identical. Expanse of wings 25-26 millim. 



Taru, 27th & 29th November, 1st December, 1896. 



174. NOD ARIA EXTERNALIS. 



Nodaria externalis, Gruenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 64 (1854). 

 $ , between Yoi and Ndi, 16th May, 1897. 

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