1888.] FROM EQUATORIAI. AFRICA. 83 



WadelRi, llth and 12th January, 1887. 



Nearest to P. ihelwallii, Druce, but differing from it in the nar- 

 rower border to the secondaries, and from all the three described 

 species — P. thelwallii, P. bellatrix, and P. tigris — in the straight in- 

 stead of angulated bands on the primaries ; the orange of the male 

 is paler tlian in the female but is quite uniform ; in P. tiyris the 

 primaries are decidedly paler than the secondaries. 



LlTHOSIID^. 



137. Argina cingulifera. 



Deiopeia cingulifera. Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 569. n. 7 

 (1854). 



$. Wadelai, 18th March, 1887. 



138. Deiopeia pulchella. 



Tinea pulchella, Linnseus, Syst. Ent. i. 2, p. 884. n. 349 (176fi). 

 Wadelai, 13th and 20th January, 8th and 9th February, and 1 1th 

 March, 1887. 



Nyctemerid^. 



139. Leptosoma leuconoe, var. 



Nyctemera leuconoe, Hopffer in Peters's Reise, pi. 28. fig. 3. 

 Foda, 3rd and 20th Novemher, 1887. 



L I pari D^. 



140. Cropera testacea. 



Cropera testacea, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 826. n. 1 (1855). 

 $ . Monbuttu, in July or August, 



One much worn example. The species was originally described 

 from Natal. 



Lasiocampi o m, 



141. Jana gracilis. 



Jana gracilis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 913. n. 8 (1855). 

 Kangasi, 3rd October, 1883. 

 One very much-worn male. 



142. Jana strigina. 



Jana strigina, Westwood, P. Z. S. 1849, p. 37- 



5 . Slazione Bauri, September 1883. 



The description of this species was taken from an example received 

 from Sierra Leone ; it is rather vague, but agrees in so many respects 

 with the specimen now obtained that I have no hesitation in identi- 

 fying the latter with it ; the basal half of the secondaries is not 

 strictly speaking black, for the costal third is of a pale brown colour, 

 crossed by the white belt before basal third ; this belt also is very 

 wide in front, so that towards the costa it occupies quite a third of 



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