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NOCTUIDiE. 



Delagoa, Bay (Kenrick, Distant), 2 J , 2 $ ; Mashoi^aiand, Salisbury 

 {Marshall), 1 J; Tuansvaal, Lydeiibarg, I c5' ; ZutuLAND 

 {Angas), 1 J; Natal, Durban {Gueinzias, Trimen, Burrows, 

 Lei(jh, Meade- Waldo), 4 c? , 7 $ . Kvj\ 50-66 millim. 



Larua. Fawcett, 'I'rans. Zool. Soc. xvii. p. 182, pi. viii. ff. 13, 14. 



Pale yellow with broad black intersomital bands each with two 

 fine white rings, the anal extremity black with two white bands ; 

 subbasal, lateral and spiracular pairs of small black tubercles on 

 each somite, each with a few black hairs ; legs, claspers, and 

 spiracles black ; head black marbled with white fasciae. Eood- 

 plant, Sapindus oblongifolius. 



Papa. Pale rufous marbled with fine white lines defining the 

 eyes, antennae, veins on wing-covers and the abdominal somites; 

 spiracles black ; enclosed in a slight silky white web on the stem 

 of the food-plant. 



7388. Egybolis dohertyi. 



EgyboHs dohertyi, Eoths. Nov. Zool. Vu\. p. 405, pi. x. f. 10 (1901). 



Head deep orange, the back of head, thorax and abdomen black 

 shot with brilliant metallic blue ; fore tibiae orange, the mid and 

 hind tibiae orange at extremities. Fore wing brilliant metallic 

 blue-green ; an orange subbasal spot on costa and narrow band from 

 cell to inner margin with sinuous edges, both defined by black ; a 

 small elliptical orange discoidal spot with spot above it on costa, 

 both defined by black ; a strong black postmedial line, arising below 

 costa, oblique and slightly sinuous to below vein 4, then strongly 

 incurved, an orange bar on it between veins 8 and 6 and slight 

 striga below vein 6. Hind wing brilliant metallic blue. Under- 

 side of both wings brilliant metallic blue. 



Hah. Bk. E. Afeica, Kikuyu Escarpment (Neave), 5 c? , 3 $ , 

 Aberdare Mts. (Neave), 1 c? , 1 5 , Mt. Kenya, N. Slopes (Neave), 

 2 2 ' J^^vp. 58-60 millim. 



Geuus HiEMABASIS, nov 



Type, H. cahdesma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and broadly scaled, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenuiB of male vrith fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed with hair only and 

 without crests ; tibiiB broadly fringed with hair, the mid tibice of male dilated 

 with a groove containing a tuft of long hair, the fore and hind tibiaj not spined ; 

 male with a tuft of long hair from below origin of fore wing ; abdomen with 

 ridges <if hair on all except the terminal segments and on the ventral surface. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and notcrenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anas- 

 tomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell 

 half the length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just 

 above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



