1871.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW LEPIDOPTERA. 81 



apex. Hind wings — basal area abruptly limited by a somewhat 

 arched and wedge-shaped ochreous patch, which towards the apex 

 unites with a geminate ochraceous chain-band enclosing internally 

 black hastate spots. Body above blackish. Wings below greyish, 

 paler than above. Front wings with white oblique band ; chain-like 

 markings less distinct than above. Body below grey. 



Expanse of wings 2 iuches 11^ lines. 



Hab. Fantee, Cape Coast (Ussher). Coll. Swanzy. 



Allied to A. opis, Drury. 



Aterica zonara, n. sp. 



d. Wings above tawny, with three macular brown bands, the 

 outermost distinctly separated into spots ; the costa and outer margin 

 of front wings, some irregular basal characters, the base of hind 

 wings, and a submarginal broken line in hind wings dark brown ; 

 fringe blackish. Body above dark tawny. Wings below pale tawny ; 

 a dentate, sinuate, submarginal brown line, and a series of black discal 

 points. Front wings with a black spot, and 8-shaped marking within 

 the cell ; a second marking, less distinct, at end of cell, and a series, 

 very indistinct, terminating basal area ; a squamose, oblique, blackish 

 streak from apex to below first median branch. Hind wings with 

 three black spots in cell, which is surrounded by an irregular series 

 of tawny blackish-edged markings, enclosing a pale notched lunate 

 patch, which crosses discocellular, median, and submedian inter- 

 spaces. Body below greyish. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. 



$ . Wings above brown, with pale ochreous markings answering to 

 ground-colour of male ; hind wings with pale ochreous patch, 

 nearly as in the preceding species, but narrower and more diffused 

 externally ; wings below as in the male, but paler. 



Expanse of wings 2 inches 6 lines. 



Hab. Fantee, Cape Coast ( Ussher) . Coll. Swanzy. 



Belongs to the Absolon group. 



Genus Deilephila. 

 Deilephila spinifascia, n. sp. 



Intermediate between D. livornica and D.galii. Front wings with 

 a pale median ochraceous band, as in D. livornica, throwing off five or 

 six recurrent spine-like streaks along nervures towards costal area. 

 Hind wings as in I), galii, excepting that the white spot near anal 

 angle is placed above the line of the rosy band, and is bounded on 

 both sides by black. Body differs from that of D. galii in that it 

 exhibits five, more or less, black decreasing bands on each side of 

 the central brown stripe. Wings below freckled with blackish 

 scales, otherwise almost as in D. galii. 



Expanse of wings 3 inches. 



Hab. Buenos Ayres (Burmeister). B.M. 



This species, the following, and Dirpkia venata were sent to the 

 Proc. Zool. Soc— 1871, No. VI. 



