228 MESSRS. GODMAN AND SALVIN ON [Apr. 1, 



LlPARID^. 



6. Dasychira crausis, sp. n. (Plate XVII. fig 5.) 



$ . Primaries — the ground-colour chrome-yellow, very thickly 

 powdered with minute black spots excepting at the apex, and the 

 outer margin crossed by four irregular bands of orange-red — the first 

 close to the base and nearly straight, the second curved, the third 

 broad and almost broken into three spots, the fourth very much 

 curved near the apex ; between the third and fourth bands, at the end 

 of the cell, is a large red spot. Secondaries uniform chrome-yellow, 

 the fringe yellow. Head and palpi yellow, tipped with black ; antennae 

 somewhat deeply pectinated, brownish black. Thorax and abdomen 

 I believe to be yellow banded with black, but the specimen being 

 much rubbed m these parts I cannot be certain about the black 

 bands. Legs yellow ; the tarsi black. The underside uniform chrome- 

 yellow, with an indistinct black mark at the end of the cell of both 

 the primaries and secondaries. Expanse If inch. 



This species is allied to D. gentilis, Butler, from Madagascar ; but 

 it is a much smaller insect and very distinct. A specimen, in very 

 bad condition, of what I believe to be the male of this species is in 

 the British-Museum collection from Old Calabar. 



NoTODONTID.ffi. 



7. ORiESIA, sp. ? 



A specimen of a species very closely allied to O. alliciens. Walk., 

 from which it differs in having the primaries much paler and 

 without the transverse lines. As only a single example was obtained, 

 and the species of this genus are subject to slight variation, I think 

 it better not to name this insect without seeing more specimens. 



LlMACODID^. 



8. Parasa, sp. ? 



A specimen in very poor condition belonging to this genus. 



BOMBYCIDiE. 



9. Pachygastria niris, sp. n. (Plate XVIII. fig. 6.) 

 Uniform reddish brown ; primaries with a minute white spot, 



edged with black, at the end of the cell, two transverse narrow black 

 bands crossing the wing beyond the middle ; secondaries rather paler 

 at the base, crossed at the middle by a very faint black line. Under- 

 side paler and with the black lines more defined. Expanse Ig inch. 

 This species is allied to P. reducta, Walk., from the Zulu Country, 

 South Africa. 



Xylophasid^. 



10. Spodoptera capicola, Herr.-Schaf. Exot. Schmett. t. 27. 

 fig. 131. 



ApAMEINiE. 



11. Apamea natalensis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. iv. 

 vol. xvi. p. 403. 



A very broken example of this species. 



