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Skull: greatest length 15; basal length 12:9; orbital 
breadth 8; intertemporal breadth 4:9; breadth of brain-case 
8:2; nasal notch 3°3 x 2°5; palate from bottom of prepalatal 
notch 5; front of upper canine to back of m.° 6; front of 
lower canine to back of m.3 6°5. 
Hab. Kitui, British East Africa; altitude 3500 feet. 
Type. Male. B.M. no. 1.2.5.1. Original number 63. 
Collected 26th November, 1900, by 8. L. Hinde. 
Its larger size and different colour will readily distinguish 
this species from its nearest ally S. hirundo, 
XXXIV.—Descriptions of some new Species of Heterocera. 
By W. Scuaus, F.Z.8. 
Fam. Arctiidae. 
Hyperthema albipuncta. 
Head and thorax brown. Abdomen roseate; a lateral 
row of black spots. Primaries reddish brown, with fine wavy 
transverse shadings; fringe black at the base, white ter- 
minally ; a white spot, circled with black, near the base and 
below the median vein; a minute black spot beyond the cell 
between veins 4 and 5. Secondaries greyish brown, the 
fringe white. 
Expanse 32 millim. 
Hab. Sko Paulo, Brazil. 
Hyperthema hemacta. 
Palpi crimson. Head and thorax orange ;_ two black points 
on collar, Abdomen red; two rows of black spots laterally. 
Primaries red, shaded with brown towards apex ; costa finely 
brown; fringe dark grey ; a black point at the base, a round 
white spot circled with black below the median vein, and a 
similar larger spot beyond the cell between veins 5 and 6. 
Secondaries brown, streaked with White at the base. 
Expanse 35 millim. 
Hab. Costa Rica. 
Neritos sanguipuncta. 
Palpi yellow, outwardly roseate. Head brown; vertex 
yellow. ‘Thorax brown. Abdomen roseate, underneath 
yellow. Legs yellow. Primaries: the base from the costa 
at one third to the inner angle brown, outwardly edged with 
reddish ; a crimson spot about the middle of the submedian 
