464 Mr. A. G. Butler on new Lepidoptera. 



asylas and Z. capensis, but differing from both in that the 

 primaries have a longitudinal black costal stripe beyond the 

 cell, and a white streak followed by an oblong black spot on 

 the interno-median area : primaries with the costal two thirds 

 chalky white, crossed by black striations, and with a black 

 semicircular streak at outer margin, internal area broadly 

 greyish brown : secondaries greyish brown, with dark grey 

 reticulations ; costal area white, a dusky-bordered convex 

 sordid-white external patch : head yellow in front, deep grey 

 behind ; antennte black ; collar black ; thorax brown, with 

 snow-white tegulaj ; abdomen above white, crossed by grey 

 belts, which become black at the sides. Under surface paler, 

 altogether more uniform in colouring ; the costal and interno- 

 median black dashes of primaries obsolete ; pectus blackish. 

 Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 lines. 

 Ellongo, Madagascar. 



Achcea sypnoides^ n. sp. 



Basal area laky brown, veins grey ; a basicostal black 

 annulus with a black dash beneath it ; central area occupied 

 by a very broad irregular white band, unequally undulated 

 internally and limited by a black zigzag line externally ; a 

 very iiTcgular olivaceous central marking, two black dots at 

 the end of the cell ; an angulated dentate-sinuate olivaceous 

 line nearly parallel to the outer border of the central band, 

 which is also broadly olivaceous ; inferior half of external 

 area sordid whitish, trasversed by brown-bordered white 

 lunules ; apical half purplish brown internally, rather narrowly 

 and very irregularly pale brown externally; a sinuated black 

 marginal line : secondaries pale greyish brown, with a broad, 

 diffused, tapering, darker belt ; outer border greyish, varied 

 with white ; a sinuated black marginal line : body pale seri- 

 ceous brown. Under surface whity brown, with a paler, 

 almost white postmedian belt, limited internally by a grey, 

 and externally by a blackish stripe ; disk dark smoky brown, 

 outer border greyish with black marginal spots : secondaries 

 with a dusky discocellular spot. Expanse of wings 2 inches 

 7 lines. 



Old Calabar. 



Nearest to A. intercisa^ but altogether lai-ger and different 

 in colouring ; it has some resemblance to Sypna picta. 



Eumelea stellaiay n. sp. 



Stramineous, wings mottled with ferruginous, with two ill- 

 defined oblique central lines and a marginal line dark ferru- 

 ginous ; three unequal clear patches or spots beyond the 



