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Luangwa valley (Neave), 1 S , 1 .? , Mpeta (Coryndon), 1 $ I 

 Mashonaland (Dobbie), 1 J , 1 $ ; Cape Colony, Transkei 

 (Miss F. Barrett), 1 $ type, ifcp. 28 mm. 



Maruca testulalis Geyer, Hiibn. Samml. Exot. Schmett. iv. 

 4, p. 12, ff. 629, 630 (1827). 



N.E. Rhodesia, Serenji distr., Chambezi valley. 



POLYGRAMMODES PHYLLOPHILA Blltl. A. M. N. H. (5) ii. p. 296 



(1878). 



N.E. Rhodesia, Chinsali distr. 



Pachyzancla phjeopteralis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 349 (1854). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, upper Luangwa valley. 



Pachyzancla bipunctalis Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 227 (1794). 

 N.E. Rhodesia, upper Luangwa valley. 



Phlyct.enodes argyrostacta, sp. n. (PI. XLI. fig. 6.) 



<5 . Head and thorax pale yellow, the palpi, shoulders, and 

 antenna? rufous ; fore legs in front and mid and hind femora 

 fuscous ; abdomen fulvous yellow. Fore wing pale yellow, the 

 costal area blood-red, the costal edge black ; an antemedial blood- 

 red band, acutely angled outwards in submedian fold, some silvery 

 scales on it ; triangular blood-red patches with leaden-silvery 

 centres projecting from the costal area at middle and end of cell ; 

 a blood-red subterminal band with leaden-silvery band on -its 

 inner edge from below costa to inner margin towards which it 

 narrows, its inner edge emitting red streaks on veins 7, 6 and 

 a projection to lower angle of cell, its outer edge curved ; a fine 

 blackish terminal line defined on inner side by red ; cilia tinged 

 with red at base and with fuscous lines near base and tips. Hind 

 wing pale orange-yellow ; the underside with the costal area 

 tinged with brown, a rather diffused brownish subterminal line. 



Hab. N.W. Rhodesia, Alala plateau {Neave), 1 S ; N.E. 

 Rhodesia, Chambezi valley (Neave), 1 S type. Exp. 26 mm. 



Phlyct^enodes flavinigralis, sp. n. (PI. XLI. fig. 7.) 



S . Head and thorax black with a silvery gloss, the vertex of 

 head and neck orange, the metathorax with lateral orange streaks ; 

 palpi orange except at tips ; pectus and legs orange, the latter 

 streaked with black ; abdomen orange with dorsal and ventral 

 series of black spots. Fore wing black with a leaden gloss ; 

 diffused yellow fasciae below base of cell and above inner margin 

 and a rather elongate subbasal spot in cell ; a medial spot in cell 

 and lather elongate spots below the cell and above inner margin ; 

 a rounded patch beyond the cell with minute streak below it and 

 quadrate spot in submedian interspace ; a small subapical spot ; 

 subterminal points at vein 6 and in submedian fold and a spot at 

 middle. Hind wing golden orange ; the costal edge black ; a 



