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A distinct genus, easily known by the thickened stout antennae, 

 by the keeled front, by the sharply obliquely narrowed temples, 

 by the projecting edge of the pronotum, and by the long hinder 

 legs. In Ashmead's arrangement it would come in near Habro- 

 cryptus. 



Whymperia carinifrons, sp. nov. 



Black, the head and thorax largely marked with white ; the second 

 and following segments of the abdomen rufous, the legs pale yellow, 

 the four hinder femora rufous ; the hinder coxae black, their top with 

 a large white mark ; the wings hyaline, the stigma and nervures 

 black. ? . Length, 11 ; terebra, 3 mm. 



Hab. Ecuador, 1-2000 ft. 



Antennae black, the eighth to fourteenth joints more or less white, 

 the thickened apical joints fuscous. Front and vertex smooth and 

 shining ; the face somewhat coarsely striated ; the clypeus with 

 scattered punctures round the top and apex ; its apex depressed and 

 black. Labrum white, fringed with long golden hair. Mandibles 

 black, with a small curved white spot on the base. Palpi white. 

 Thorax black ; the dilated part of the pronotum, two lines in the 

 centre of the mesonotum, narrowed at the base and apex, the scutellum, 

 post-scutellum, a mark, transverse at the base, rounded at the apex, 

 two large marks on the apical slope, a mark on the lower side of the 

 propleuras, the tubercles narrowly in the centre, a large mark on the 

 top of the mesopleurge, a larger irregular mark on the lower side of 

 the mesopleursB, with a rounded incision on its upper side, a mark 

 immediately below the hind wings and the greater part of the upper 

 half of the metapleurae, pale yellow. The middle femora are darker- 

 coloured than the posterior. Petiole smooth and shining ; its apex 

 and a narrow line behind the middle yellow ; its ventral surface is 

 brownish ; there is a broad, irregular black band near the apex of the 

 second segment. 



(To be continued.) 



ON BUTTERFLIES COLLECTED BY MAJOR E. M. 

 WOODWARD IN BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 



By Emily Mary Sharpe. 



The following is a list of the species of butterflies obtained 

 by Major E. M. Woodward on his journey from the coast to 

 Uganda and Nandi. He obtained two new species, which I de- 

 scribed under the names Neptis ivoodwardi (Nymphalidae) and 

 Planema nandensis (Acrseidae). Cf. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), 

 vol. iii. pp. 243, 244 (1899). 



Family Danaid^. 

 1. Danais chrysippus {Linn.). — a, ft, ^ ? . Wakolis, Usoga; 

 October 15, 1897. 



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