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a dorsal series of small elongate fuscous spots. A triangular olive- 

 brown spot in cell of fore wing, and below it abroad silvery white 

 band along the median nervure from near its base (where it starts 

 from a point), extending both above and beloAv it, to the base of 

 vein 3, where the band joins another broad silvery band bent up 

 to the costa before the apex The outer margin of these two sil- 

 very bands is bounded by a narrow waved olive-brown band from 

 costa to inner margin. A marginal series of black points between 

 the veins bordered inwardly by spots of grey irroration. 



Hind wing dull yellow, with a broad black submarginal band 

 with a very irregular inner margin. Underside pale yellow with 

 broad black submarginal bands ; margins grey ; a black spot in 

 cell of fore wing and a black bar on discoceilulars joined to sub- 

 marginal band. 



Habitat. Kedai, 24th November. Expanse 44 mm. 



The above two forms are nearest to P. marshalli Hampson, 

 which differs from them in the white band being broken up into 

 spots where it bends upwards, and in having a black tooth on the 

 band on its lower margin. 



There seems to be some doubt as to the correct position of the 

 genus Paratuerta. Sir G. Hampson places it at the end of the 

 Noctuid* Acronyctina? while Dr. Karl Jordan, writing in Seitz, 

 " Macrolepidoptera of the World," places what appears to be 

 another species of the genus (viz. leucographa) in the Agaristidre. 

 I have followed the British Museum arrangement here. 



21. OVIOS NEALCES, Sp. 11. (PI. I. fig. 8.) 



Description. — S • Head, thorax, and fore wing pale grey-brown 

 with a violaceous reflection. Abdomen and hind wing pale 

 ochreous with a broad fuscous marginal band. 



Fore wing with a submarginal row of red-brown spots between 

 the veins, which merges into a submarginal band towards the costa 

 near the apex. A short white band from costa to vein 4 where 

 it surrounds the reniform stigma. An indistinct orbicular spot 

 in cell. Costa suffused with greyish irroration. In the female 

 the white band of the fore wing is broader and more diffused. 



Habitat. Kedai, 25th November. Expanse 38 mm. 



22. Pasipeda roseiventris Gerstaecker. 

 Habitat. Kedai, 25th November. 



Perhaps a local form of P. sambesita Walker.'li Recorded pre- 

 viously from B. E. Africa by Butler (P. Z. S. 1898, p. 424). 



23. Setola pulchra Bethune -Baker. 

 Habitat. Kedai, 28th November. 



24. Setoctena patricola Hampson. 



Habitat. Masongaleni, 9th June. 



