1893.] BBITISH CENTBAL APBICA, 679 



Although the Noctuce are tolerably well represented in the present 

 collection, all the species obtained belong to the " quadrifid " 

 type. 



184. jEdIA DtJlCISTEIGA. 



Anopliia didcisiriga. Walker, Lep. Het. sv. p. 1811 (1858). 

 Zomba, December 1892. 



185. POLYDESMA UMBEICOLA. 



Polydesma umhricola, Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madag. p. 108, 

 n. 1, pi. 13. fig. 5. 

 Zomba, July 1892. 

 This species seems to be common throughout Africa. 



186. Caxliodes eituligeea, sp. n. 



Umber-brown, suffused, but especially towards external border, 

 with olivaceous greenish and towards base with slaty greyish ; 

 crossed by numerous irregular black stripes, some of which are 

 partly shot with dull blue, but the two following the ocellus on 

 primaries with shining leaden grey ; the first four stripes on the 

 primaries irregularly angulated, the fifth falciform, bounding the 

 outer edge of the ocellus, becoming leaden towards costa ; sixth 

 stripe arched and imdulated ; seventh parallel to the sixth, macu- 

 lar ; the eighth slender, submargiual, undulated, not reaching the 

 costa ; the ninth slender, slightly undulated, marginal ; fringe 

 traversed by an indistinct central pale line ; ocellus with the 

 ^ -shaped part bronze-green shaded with olive-brown, edged with 

 pale brown, bordered below with black, the lobe of the ^ broadly 

 black externally and crossed by three equidistant metallic leaden 

 bars ; the tail of the v enclosing a perpendicular metallic leaden 

 streak ; the V-shaped portion of the ocellus, enclosed by the 

 comma, shining leaden grey, interrupted by longitudinal bars of the 

 ground-colour and bounded on both sides by pure white, more or 

 less triangular spots : secondaries without basal bands ; a short 

 bar crossing the cell, followed by two parallel irregularly denticu- 

 lated angulated bands, then three tolerably regular parallel zigzag 

 stripes, a series of subconfluent diamond-shaped spots, a sub- 

 margiual zigzag stripe ; marginal line and fringe as on primaries : 

 body normal, but darker than in G. apollina. Under surface pale 

 brick-red ; primaries greyish at external border, which is bounded 

 internally by a blackish zigzag line, interrupted by blackish veins, 

 encloses a series of blackish spots, and is edged externally by a 

 black marginal line ; fringe as above ; across the disk is a secoud 

 indistinct interrupted zigzag or lunidated line, interrupted in the 

 middle by two conspicuous superposed black spots ; a blackish 

 looped character represents the reniform spot, and on the iuterno- 

 median interspace there is a blackish longitudinal streak : second- 

 aries with a black discocellular spot ; a black lunulated discal 

 stripe, a black dentate-sinuate submarginal 'iae connected with 



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