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95. Nephele rectangulata Rothschild. 

 Habitat. Mombasa, 12th May. 



96. Nephele vau Walker. 



Habitat. Meru, taken by Lady Col vile. 



97. Nephele vespera, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 26.) 



Description. — $ . Head, body, and wings with dark brown bands 

 and lines. Fore wing : a dark basal band followed by three ante- 

 medial waved lines ; two medial waved lines bent in on the inner 

 margin, and enclosing a pale round discocellular spot ; two post- 

 medial lines, the inner one nearly straight, and the outer crenulate 

 from costa to inner margin, and between them and the antemediai 

 lines a large dark-brown patch angled outwardly nearly to the 

 margin below vein 4 ; three black submarginal spots before the 

 apex, joining the latter by a fine black line. Hind wing with a 

 broad brown marginal band. Underside paler, with markings 

 more indistinct. Palpi white beneath, and a whitish line above 

 the eyes. 



Habitat. Kedai, 20th January. Expanse 80 mm. 



This form is nearest to Nephele funebris Fabricius, from 

 S. Africa, but differs from all species of Nephele that I have seen 

 in having no black bands on the abdomen, which in this species is 

 plain fuscous. 



98. Temnora erato, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 2.) 



Description. — J . Head red-brown, dark grey vertically ; thorax 

 grejr. Abdomen greyish with bright ochreous bands, and a dorsal 

 row of black spots on the somites. Fore wing : basal third grey ; 

 disc pinkish, with two brown patches on the costa defined by 

 whitish outwardly. Antemediai and postmedial lines, the latter 

 crenulate below the costa, and becoming large brown lunules 

 between the veins on the disc. A white line to apex with an 

 ochreous patch beneath it. A black submarginal spot below apex ; 

 inner margin brown. Hind wing pale fuscous with an obsolete 

 submarginal line, which only becomes distinct at anal angle. 

 Two distal black spots on veins 3 and 4. 



The female does not differ from the male except in the fore 

 wings being longer and narrower and the discal area being paler. 



Habitat. Masongaleni, 29th April, J ; Kedai, 24th November, 

 <5 & 2 ■ Expanse, 3 50 mm., § 60 mm. 



This form is nearest to Temnora natalis Walker, but is much 

 smaller. 



99. Rhopalopsyche hirundo Gerst. 



Habitat. Kedai, 8th January ; Meru (Lady Colvile). 



100. Hippotion dexippus, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 25.) 



Description. — S ■ Head, thorax, and antennas bluish grey, the 

 fringes of the patagia white, and white spots above the eyes. 



