590 DR. A. G. BUTLEK OS LEPIDOPTEBA [June 19, 



line from anal angle to radial vein ; fringe white. Head and 

 front of thorax purplish black ; shaft of antennso and a connecting 

 line across the head white ; back of thorax dusky, abdomen whity 

 brown. Primaries below sericeous greyish brown ; the black patch 

 of the upper surface faintly indicated by a wedge-shaped whitish- 

 bordered patch ; fringe white : secondaries Mhity brown, speckled 

 with grey-brown, which becomes denser and forms a diffused patch 

 at apex ; a dusky elongated spot at end of cell ; a slender blackish 

 marginal line ; fringe white : body below sericeous whitish. 

 Expanse of wings 25 millim. 

 Sabaki Valley. 



192. Teigonodes htppasia, 



PJialcena-Noctua hyppasia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 99, pi. eel. E 



(1782). 



Nzoai. 



193. ACA>'THOLIPES CIECTJMDATA. 



Hydrelia ? circumdata, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1763 (1858). 

 Nzoai and Sabaki Valley. 



194. Drasteeia mutuaria. 



Remigia mutuaria, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1506. n. 7 (1857). 

 Kithungulu. 



195. Eemigia repakda. 



Noctua repanda, Pabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 49. n. 133 (1793). 

 Ngatana; Ndara. 



Two much-worn examples of species belonging, probably, to 

 different genera allied to Zethes complete the typical JS^octuce. 



196. Ophiuche mastjrialis. 



Hifpena masuricdis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 38. n. 40. 

 Sabaki Valley. 



197. Ophiuche echionalis. 



Hypena ecUoncdis, Walker, Lep. Het. xvi. p. 230 (1858). 

 Mkonumbi, grassy steppes. 



198. HTPEJfA TCLGATAUS. 



Hypena vidgatalis, Walker, Lep. Het. xvi. p. 82 (1858). 

 Hypena palpilralis. Walker, 1. c. 



Karati; Konu District; Ukikuya country; Tana river-basin, 

 beside swamp. 



Three very much-worn examples. 



Three other specimens in the collection I have been unable to 

 name : two of these may be modifications of H. tristalis ; the third 

 is probably new, but too bad for description. 



