454 SIR GEORGE F. HAMrSON on [Mar. 1, 



rather yellower with stronger streaks on the veins and an oblique 

 shade across apical area of fore wing, and that craushayi, cmsorgei, 

 and neavi are all forms of the female, the two former having the 

 terminal band of hind wing narrow ; craushayi has the fore 

 wing fulvous, the hind wing with fulvous subterminal spots, 

 ansorgei fuscous, with a broad whitish postmedial band, the hind 

 wing with white subterminal spots, whilst neavi has a very broad 

 terminal band to hind wing, the subterminal spots very sma,ll and 

 either white or fulvous. All the forms were taken in one district 

 by Mr. Weave except typical ansorgei, which he did not get, 

 though some of the varieties approach it : the type was taken in 

 the same locality in E. Africa as the type of venosa. On the 

 other hand, H.jlava has a female similar to the male. 



[Hibrildes craushayi Butler. There is nothing in my experi- 

 ence in the field which would make improbable Sir George 

 Hampson's suggestion that this species and the new H. neavi are 

 the females of H. nor ax and venosa. Both craushayi a.nd neavi 

 are remarkable Acraeine mimics, the former of Acrcea natalica 

 Boisd., the latter, with its heavy black margins to the secondaries, 

 of Acrcea anemosa Hew. 



I found both these species of Acrcea extremely abundant at 

 Petauke in the Luangwa valley, whence most of the specimens 

 of craushayi and neavi come. These moths only resemble the 

 large Acra?as fairly well on the wing as their flight differs a good 

 deal. At rest, however, the resemblance is remarkable, the moth 

 resting hanging from a grass stem, etc., with wings folded above 

 its back, exactly as the Acrcea does. — S. A. N.] 



Hibrildes neavi, sp. n. (PI. XXXVIII. fig. 18.) 



2.. Head, thorax, and abdomen black -brown ; frons orange; 

 tegulse. patagia, and metathorax with small paired white spots ; 

 a,bdomen with subdorsal and lateral series of paired white spots, 

 sublateral orange fascia, and the anal extremity orange. Fore 

 wing fulvous red with some blackish suffusion on basal half, the 

 veins streaked with black ; an irregular black discoidal bar, its 

 inner edge concave, its outer somewhat dentate at the veins ; the 

 term en and cilia black, expanding into a patch on apical part of 

 costa. Hind wing fulvous red with some blackish suffusion on 

 basal half, the veins finely streaked with black ; a black discoidal 

 spot ; the terminal area broadly black with minutely waved inner 

 edge and more or less complete subterminal series of small white 

 or orange spots. 



Hob. N.W. Rhodesia, Kansanshi (JVeave), 1 $ type ; X.E. 

 Rhodesia, E. Luangwa clistr. (Heave), 2 $ . Exp. 60-70 mm. 



Lymanieiada 



Viana velutina Wlk. Proc, Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 341 

 (1869). 



Coxgo, Katanga. Kambove. 



