1885.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM SOMALT-LAND. 775 



Three male specimens. More than eighty miles south of Berbera. 

 — Thrupp, 



48. Nepheronia arabica. 



Eronia buqiietii, var. arabica, Hopifer in Peters' Reise nach 

 Mossambique, Zool. v. p. 363, var. ft (1862). 



Nepheronia arabica, Butler, P. Z. S. 1884, p. 492, n. 37. 



One female. More than eighty miles southwards of Berbera. — 

 Thrupp. 



Hesperiid^. 

 49. Hesperia anchises. 



Ismene anchises, Gerstaecker in Van der Decken's Reisen in Ost- 

 Africa, iii. p. 374, n. 29, pi. xv. figs. 6, 6 a (1873). 

 One pair, 23rd December. — Thrupp. 



.50. Cyclopides cheles. 



Cyclopides cheles, Hewitson, Descr. Ilesp. p. 42, n. 5 (1868). 



One male. — Thrupp. 



Allied to C. mene of Cramer. 



51. Carterocephalus callicles. 



Cyclopides callicles, Hewitson, Descr. Hesp. p. 42, n. 6 (1868). 



Two males. — Thrupp. 



Nearest to 0. macomo. 



The two preceding species were originally described from speci- 

 mens received from Damara-land. We have G. callicles also from 

 Kinsembo. 



52. ThANAOS DJiEL^L^. 



Pteryyospidea djceJcelcB, Wallengren, Lep. Rhop. Caffr. p. 54 

 (1857). 



One damaged specimen. — Thrupp). 



Agaristid^. 



53. EtJSEMiA THRUPPi, sp. n. 



2 . Allied to E. super ba^, but the spots on the thorax and at 

 base of primaries yellow, the latter extending to basal fourth, where 

 they form a sinuous series ; the first pair of larger spots differing in 

 that the anterior spot is of only about a third the size of that in 

 E. superba, and the lower spot is cuneiform and rests on the inner 

 margin ; the other spots on the wing differ but little : secondaries 

 with the apical two thirds orange-ochreous, changing below the cell 

 to rose-red; external border about half the width of that of E. 

 superba, and without the white apical spot of that species; abdomen 

 shining fulvous, becoming redder towards the base, not banded with 

 black as in all the allied species. Expanse of wings 80 millim. 



One female. More than eighty miles south of Berbera. — Thrupp. 



^ In the Museum from Natal, Zulu Land, and Nyanza. 



