82 MU. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [Jan. 17, 



131. ^GOCERA MAGNA. 



jEyocera magna. Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 56. n. 3 (1854). 

 Kangasi, 29th July, 1883 ; Wadelai, 8th and 28tli March, 1887. 



132. ^GOCERA RECTILINEA. 



j^gocera rectilinea, Boisduval, Sp. Gen. Lep. i. pi. 14. fig. 5 

 (183(1). 



Wadelai, 9th and 11th March and 8th April, 1887. 



ArCTIIDjE. 



133. EuCHROMIA FULVIDA. 



Euchromia fulvida, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, pi. iv. fig. 9. 

 Euchromia aperchius (part.). Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 220. 

 n. 24 (1854). 



Kangasi, 27th July, 1883; Monbuttu in July and August. 



134. Alpenus ^auALis. 



Alpenus cpqualis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 686. n. 1 (1855). 

 Wadelai, 11th March, 1887. 



135. T^NIOPYGA SYLVINA. 



PhalcBna-Noctua sylvina, Stoll, Suppl. Cramer, Pap. Exot. pi. 40. 

 fig. 4(1791). 



§ . Stazione Gadda. 23rd April, 1884. 



136. Pleretes pactolicus, sp. n. 



Bright orange, with black-bordered steel-blue markings ; primaries 

 ■with two subconfluent spots placed obliquely close to the base (in 

 the female they are confluent and form a short oblique bar) ; three 

 nearly straight bands, nearly equidistant on the costal margin, 

 crossing the wing to inner margin, the outer edges of these bands 

 are slightly convex, and the outermost band tapers (in the male 

 especially) towards its inferior extremity ; a short subapical bar or 

 blotch, and two large spots, the upper one discal, ovate or pyriform, 

 the lower quadrate or triangular and placed at external angle ; a 

 large apical spot and five or six (in the female) marginal spots ; the 

 apical and three first marginal spots confluent in the female : secon- 

 daries of male with a small costal spot before the middle ; a tolerably 

 wide external border, widest at apex, where it is interrupted by an 

 externally bisinuated spot of the ground-colour, interrupted on the 

 third median branch by a square excavation, near to which is a 

 yellow spot on the fringe : secondaries of female with a clavate 

 patch commencing in a large costal spot and crossing the cell ; a 

 narrow curved bar at the end of the cell and a tolerably broad un- 

 interrupted external border : face, tips of palpi, antennae, two spots 

 on the collar, a large spot on each tegula, a large dorsal spot on the 

 female, a second (metathoracic) dorsal spot on both sexes, and in the 

 female the anal segment, blue-black ; body below transversely barred 

 with black ; legs black. Expanse of wings, c? 70 millini., $ 71. 



