484 Sir. G. F. nainp5on on the }roths collected 



Cephonodes hylas^ Linn. Mant. p. 539 (1771). 

 Gloriosa, 2 ? . 



Pyralidae. 



Pyua ustinm. 



Zinrkevia fascialis, Ciam. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. cccxcvili. fig. O 

 (1783). 



Gloriosa, 1 c? , 1 ? . 



Pionea holoxutha^is, sp. n. 



?. Orange-yellow; palpi fulvous yellow, white at base; 

 pectus ai/d legs white, the fore and mid tibia3 yellow, the fore 

 tibiae with slight black band at extremity, the second and 

 third joints of taisi brown. Fore wing with faint minutely 

 waved postmedial reddish line, oblique from costa to vein 5, 

 excurved to vein 3, then bent inwards ; traces of a curved 

 reddish subterminal line; cilia with faint reddish medial line 

 and whitish tips; the lines sometimes quite obsolete. Hind 

 wing rather ])aler yellow ; the cilia with faint reddish medial 

 line and whitish tips. 



Comoro Is., Mayotta, 1 ? ; Gloriosa, 3 ? type. Exp. 

 20 mm. 



Seychelles Is. 

 ArctiadaB. 



ASCTIANM. 



Utetheha elata, Fabr. Eiit. Syst. p. 440 (1798). 



Var. diva^ Mab. — A very black form ; hind wing with the 

 white reduced to a patch ia and below end of cell. 

 Mahe, 2 ? . 



NoctuidaB. 



A CBONYCTIN^. 



Spodopfera ahyssinia, Guen. Noct. i. p. 154 (1852). 

 Mahe, 2 ? . 



Catocalin^. 



ChaJciope ht/ppasia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. ccl. E (1779). 



Mahe, 3 J, 1 ? ; Felicite, 2 (^ ; The Cerf, 1^,2 ? . 



