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Descriptions of a neiv genus and three new species o/Lepidoptera 

 from Madagascar; hy Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



The three following species have been received in a small 

 collection made hj Mr. Robert Toy in a forest near Antanan- 

 arivo ; — ■ 



Eusemia hi/popyrrha, n. sp. 



Upper surface velvety-black ; head and collar spotted with 

 sulphur-yellow, a white spot ou each tegula close to the humeral 

 angles of the thorax ; abdomen with the lateral margins of 

 the segments and the sides orange ; primaries with two spots 

 near the base, and a broad slightly cmwed and rounded central 

 belt, which does not reach the costal margin, sulphur-yellow ; 

 secondaries -with the fringe white at apex ; body below orange ; 

 head black, spotted with yellow ; primaries paler thau above, 

 orange at the base ; a basi-subcostal streak of sulphur-yellow 

 uniting with the broad central belt ; disc of the wings chocolate- 

 brown ; secondaries bright carmine, with the base of the costal 

 margin orange ; outer liaK oi the costal margin black ; a broad 

 external black liorder tapering to the anal angle ; a subapical 

 Avhitish spot. Expanse of wings 3 inches 4 lines. 



This is the most robust species that I ha\'e yet seen, it is most 

 nearly allied to E. agriiis of Herrich-Schiiffer, but is consider- 

 ably larger, has a broader and sulj^hur-yellow belt across the 

 primaries, and no belt upon the secondaries ; whether E. agriits 

 has the hind wings carmine below like E. zea of the same plate 

 I cannot tell, but I suspect it has. 



Anchirithra, n. gen. 



Dreatic affiue ; alaj antic^e angustfe dense squamosa, cellula 

 brevi, vena subcostali sex-ramosa, ramis secundo et tertio ramis- 

 que quinto et sexto e pediculo emissis ; nerviUa discocellulari 

 augulata et recedente ; vena radialh vera abseute ; -^-eua mediana 

 (;[uadriramosa ; posticaj vena costali ramulo subbasali costam 

 versus currente, vena subcostali pone cellulam furcata, ramq 



