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Tlah. Br. E. Africa, Samburu, Fundi (Betton), 1 cT , 1 5 type 

 gracilis; A]<!Qola, Amhriz (Mrs. Monteiro), 1 (5* , 1 $ type; Ovami>o- 

 LAND (Ericsson), 1 c? ; Transvaal, Potchefstrom (Alston), 1 c? ; 

 Delagoa Bay, 1 $ . E.vp. 30-36 millim. 



1678. Maenas maculifascia. 



Spilosoma maculifascia, Wlk. iii. 670 (1855) ; Seinp. Schmetfc, Phil. ii. 

 pi. Ivi. ff. 9, 10 ; Pag. Semon's Forscb. y.pl. xiii. f. 7 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 

 p. 239. 

 ^ 8-pilosoma conspurcatum, Wlk. vii. 1698 (1856). 



parva, Wlk. xxxii. 368 (1865) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 479. 



(S . Yellowish white ; palpi, sides of frons, antennae, patches on 

 shoulders, tegulse, and patagia, and stripes on legs dark brown ; the 

 patagia and abdomen tinged with orange above, with slight dorsal 

 and lateral series of black spots. Pore wing with point at base ; 

 three obliquely placed elqngate dark brown spots from costa to 

 below cell ; an antemedial series expanding into a triangular patch 

 on costal area, often conjoined to the subbasal spots and conjoined 

 to the medial band, which is oblique from costa to submedian fold, 

 where it joins the postmedial band ; spots at angles of cell ; the 

 maculate postmedial band angled at vein 5, where it becomes 

 confluent with an oblique band from near apex and with short 

 streaks beyond it on each side of veins 3, 4, 5 ; spots on termen 

 and cilia above and below vein 5 and at tornus. Hind wing with 

 discoidal spot ; postmedial spots above vein 5 and three or four 

 towards inner margin ; points on termen above and below vein 5. 



2 . Fore wing with the bands and the spots forming them well 

 separated. 



Ab. 1. Abdomen tinged with crimson. — Ternate. 



Hah. Philippines; Sumatra (H. 0. Forbes)^ 1 J ; Java (Horsjield), 

 6 c? , 7 $ , type and type conspurcatum ; Teenate (J. J. Walker), 

 1 cT . Exp., c? 30, $ 46 millim. 



Larva. Moore, Lep. E. I. C. p. 355, pi. 16. ff. 9, 9 a. 



Violaceous grey with dark striae ; head red-brown ; hairs long, 

 sparse, black ; dorsal warts dark, with small subdorsal white spots ; 

 spiracles and subspiracular warts red ; supra- and subspiracular 

 pale stripes ; legs and prolegs yellow. Food-plants, Ccnvoluulus, 

 Dioscorea oppositifolia, and Erythrina. Dec-Jan. 



1679. Msenas malayensis, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 2.)' 



$ . White, very slightly tinged with ochreous ; palpi at tips and 

 antennae blackish ; legs tinged with blackish, the fore femora with 

 some orange above. Fore wing with subbasal and antemedial 

 blackish spots on costa : a short streak in cell above base of vein 2 ; 

 spots in angles of cell ; an oblique postmedial series of points 

 slightly incurved below vein 3 ; an oblique series of strigae from 

 close to apex to vein 6 ; some subterminal points between veins 5 

 and 3. 



Hah. Bali, 2500 ft. (Boherty), 1 $ type. Exp. 46 millim. 



