1898.1 FROM IUUTISH F.AST \riur A. 4:>7 



209. OMOCEXA SYRTIS ? 



cJ . Miresa st/rtis, Schaus & Clements, Coll. Sierra Leone Lep. 

 p. 28, pi. ii. fig. 3 (189:5). 



2 , Voi, 19th September, 1897. 



The lines across the primaries approximate on eosta and diverge 

 more widely on inner margin than in the Iigure of the male; but 

 variations of this nature are so common, that. I dare not venture to 

 assume their importance in the present instance. 



210. (TATAR A VELUTIXA. 



c? . Gavara velutina, Walker, Cat. Lep. llet. xii. p. 77! (1>.">7). 

 , Maungu Inkubwa, 2(.)th ]\larcli, 1S97. 



New to us from E. Africa. Walker placed it in the Xm-lnl'l"'^ 

 just in front of the AconinH<r, to which (of course) it has no allinitv. 



211. NIPHADOLEPIS AUJIICINCTA, sp. n. (Plate XXXII. fig. 9.) 

 Sericeous snow-white ; primaries with faint, traces of buff 



(possibly the indications of a subbasal stripe) near the base ; two 

 buff central stripes, oblique and tolerably wide a parr from co>t.a to 

 median vein, thence rather closer together and undulated to inner 

 margin; a buff discocellular lunnle joining the outer stripe ; an 

 abbreviated buff submarginal stripe towards external angle ; three 

 black marginal clots at apex and one near to external angle: 

 secondaries with narrow diffused dusky border : collar and patagia 

 stained with buff : abdomen with bright golden-orange hind margins 

 to the segments. Under surface sericeous snow-while, the primaries 

 with sordid bullish suffusion on costal half; all the wings with two 

 blackish marginal dots at apex; anterior legs banded with olive- 

 brown. Expanse of wings 24 millhn. 



Taru, 29th November, 189(5. 



Xil)ha<1olej)is approaches Gavara in structure, the antennae and 

 palpi being similar and the venation not very greatly differing. 



212. PARYPIIANTA BISECTA, sp. n. (Plate XXXI 1. tig. ju.) 

 Nearly allied to P.fimbriata : smokv grey, the primaries eon- 



siderablv darker than the secondaries and divided through the 

 middle by a narrow oblique faintly angulated belt, white internally, 

 flesh-tinted externally; a -pale submarginal line: fringe with a 

 bullish basal line and pale tips : secondaries bone-whitish towards 

 base: fringe paler than in primaries, bin similarly coloured: head 

 pale bullish, antennae and palpi pale golden ochreous ; thorax whiiy 

 brown, with dusky central transverse b -it and posterior margin; 

 abdomen golden-testaceous, with se;iceous ashy dorsal transverse 

 bars: under surface pale sandy brownish; primarie: 

 Crevish shadin^ to bron/e-hrown. Expanse uf \\ iu:j;< 1 



O . T* I 



(5, JSamburu, !-lth November, l>9i>. 



Karseh describes his species as having the primaries gi 

 covered with brown dots : if examined under a platyseopic lens, 

 my species might be described as pah 1 grey densely covered witli 

 blackish dots. 



