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BUZURA. By L. B. Prout. 
with a fairly strong and thick postmedian line, the forewing otherwise paler and more weakly marked than 
above. Bnran, British Somaliland. 3000 feet, only the type cj known. 
26. Genus: Biiziira Walk. 
(See Vol. 4, p. 359.) 
Face and the rather short palpns with dense scaling. Tongue short. Antenna of bij^ectinate, with 
moderate or (in the African species) long branches. Breast densely hairy. Hindtibia with all spurs. Forewing 
elongate; fovea wanting; cell fully ^2 if® shortest part, more or less produced anteriorly; 1st and 2nd subcostal 
shortly stalked. Hindwing not elongate; termen somewhat crenulate; cell generally over some $$ about 
^A. Rather large and robust moths. The type is the Indian species swp'pressaria Guen. and the genus (sens, 
str.) extends eastward to the Sunda Islands. The African species which have hitherto been referred to it are 
])resumably offshoots of the Alois group of genera and will probably not be allowed to remain here, notwith¬ 
standing their shape and facies; tongue, presence of fovea and hindtibial hair-pencil in the o, nearly glabrous 
legs and reduced length of cell, all speak for this change. 
ahrupiaria. B. abtuptaria Walk. (15 i). Investigations on the genitalia of the African "'Buzura’’ in the British 
Museum, kindly undertaken by Mr. A. H. Stringer at my instigation, have shown that we have several closely 
allied species or, at the least, remarkably well differentiated local forms, confused under the general conception 
of abrv.plaria. The original, described from a Congo (^, is probably the only widely distributed one and occurs 
from French Guinea and Sierra Leone to the Cameroons and Uganda. The irroration on the white ground¬ 
colour in the B (here figured) is slight or moderate and there is nearly always an almost clean (non-irrorated) 
utcnJatissi- outer patch, interrupting tlie postmedian markings about cellule 3. Underside similar to upper. — maculatissi- 
wus. jfiys Grilnberg (15h), founded on a large $ (forewing length 34 mm) from the Sesse Islands, is either the regular 
2 to abruptaria or something very closely akin. All the $$ of the group are extremely alike and I have not 
yet learned how to distinguish some of them; but 3 $$ from Toro, Uganda, collected with almost typical ab- 
ru.ptaria bf Grunberg's careful description jierfectly, except in their rather less large size; we figure one 
of them. 
iohanriarla. B. johatinaria Oberlh. (15 h), though also from the Cameroons (Johann-Albrechts-Hohe), can hardly 
be, as I at first supposed, a mere mountain form of abrupMria with increased and more regularly distributed 
irroration and some reduction of the spots Avhich accompany the tivo principal lines; the genitalia show some 
differences, though slight, the most noticeable being in the saccus, which is more produced to a point than 
in any of the allies. Cell-S])ots less small, the yellow lines, though slender, well developed. 2 G6- 
vrpalarhi. B. mpalaria Oberlh. (16 a) was unfortunately founded on a $ (from M'pala, W. of Lake Tanganyika) 
and it is not yet possible to associate it definitely with any particular G form. I was formerly inclined to apply 
the name to the following species, from much further north, and still consider this a cpiite jiossible union; but 
I have concluded that it is better to give new names to both its nearest neighbours (from Lowa district and 
Nyasa) than to risk the confusion resultant on attaching it to the wrong one. Underside closely like u])per. No 
further specimens known. 
aequinociia- B. aequinoctialis sp. n. (16 a). Forewing 24—26 mm. Face fuscous, with the upper part pale (white 
and yellow, variable in extent). Irroration no heavier than in average abruptaria, bnt the dark markings on 
an average heavier, so that the insect looks on the whole more contrastingly marked; variable in detail, some¬ 
times with conspicuous cell-marks (lunulate, at least on the hindwing), present also beneath, generally with 
the last group of spots outside the postmedian (namely from 1st median hindward), sometimes also Avith the 
corresponding group of antemedian, rather heavy on the forewing, subterminal and terminal dark spots bet¬ 
ween the radials inclined to consolidate into a quadrate lilotch; the composite costal subterminal spot of the 
forewing in all the known examples larger than in most abruptaria. Median line of hindwing shown in only 
one known exam])le; in this it is rather stronger than in the following species, but only developed in the an¬ 
terior half. Genitalia long and narrow, the inner margin of the valve without the concavity of that of johan- 
naria, the central lip of the gnathos not so full and rounded as in that and abruptaria, bnt inclined to be pointed 
at apex. LTpper Belgian Congo; LTpjier Lowa Valley, near Masisi, 5000 —6000 feet, type G and another; Middle 
Lowa Valley, near Walikali, 3000—4000 feet, 1 Gi Bafwasendi, Lindi River, 2000 feet, 1 G: collected for 
Mr. JoiCEY by T. A. Barns. 
stringer}. B. Stringer! sp. n. (16 a). Face predominantly white mixed with yellow. Antennal pectinations con¬ 
tinuing to about 40 joints (in abruptaria, etc., to about 35). Length of forewing in G to over 26 mm, in $ 
variable from 26 to 39 mm. Easily known by its heavy irroration, even in the GGi median shade, at least of 
the hindwing, present in all, both above and beneath, though rather vague in places. Sides of saccus more 
oblique than in aequinoctialis. uncus differently shaped, spinules on costa of valve perhaps less long and less 
