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some of wliieli I also tiiiJ in the Feather Collection from B. E. 

 Africa, a circumstance whicli is accounted for by the contiguity 

 of the two districts. The forms represented in both collections 

 are mostly those characteristic of the drier steppes, as was to be 

 expected, owing to the very dry climate of Somaliland. 



The insects I'ecorded in this memoir were, I understand, 

 almost entirely taken at light on wet nights, the great majority 

 of them at Kedai and Masongaleni, I have already given the 

 approximate elevation of these places in my former paper on this 

 subject, but it may be as well to repeat it here : — 



(1) Kedai, British East Africa. Altitude 2500 feet, 120 miles 



from the coast. 



(2) Masongaleni, ditto. Altitude 3000 feet, 182 miles 



up Uganda Railway. 



Practically all the captures were made in the months of 

 November, December, January, March, A|jril, and a few in June. 

 It is curious that I have no records for the other months of the 

 year. Perhaps the months mentioned are the rainy seasons of 

 the year. A record of the rainfall and tempei'ature at Kedai 

 would have been most interesting, and I regret that I cannot 

 supply it. 



Out of 124 forms dealt with in this paper, 45 appear to be 

 new, so far as I have been able to ascertain, not having had 

 access to foreign literature on the subject, and this seems a large 

 propor-tion. Some of the described forms have not previously 

 been recorded from Africa, and others are only represented by 

 the type-specimen in the B. M. Collection. 



My friend Lady Colvile made a fine collection of lepidoptera at 

 Meru, bvit she mainly devoted herself to butterflies, with a stray 

 moth or two thrown in; it is therefore remarkable that I should 

 have found some undescribed forms amongst these solitary speci- 

 mens, and it shows what can be done in this region by anyone 

 who will really take up collecting there and work at it. , 



The numbers pi-efixed to the names of species carry on my 

 previous record on the subject in P. Z. S. 1915, and thus start 

 at 125. 



In this memoir, B. M. stands for British Museum, and C. L. P. 

 for Hampson's ' Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalpente.' 



The figures have been drawn and painted by myself to exact 

 size. I have not had space to figure all the new forms described, 

 but I hope to do so in a future pa.per. 



HETEROCERA. 



Family A M A T i D ,«. 



125. Apisa CANBSCExs Walker, Cat. iv. p. 917 (1855). 



Habitat. Masongaleni, 25th June, 1911, 1 $ ; Kedai, 5th Jan. 

 1913, i d ; Kisajmia, Lake Albert, 19th June, 1911, 1 d . 



