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Show 684 ON LEPIDOPTERA F R O M BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. [Nov. 7, costal vein; fourth line submarginal, angulated near the margin, sinuous and running outwards to apex above the angle; between the third and fourth lines a grey nebulous streak runs perpendicularly to the costa, leaving a triangular patch of white at apex; a slightly lunulated black marginal line; fringe traversed by a fuliginous grey line and spotted at the extremities of the veins: secondaries crossed by three blackish lines, the first sub-angulated, crossing the end of the cell, the second arched and undulated, the third greyer than the others, slightly undulated, running from apex to anal angle, the area enclosed by the second and third lines clouded with grey: head and collar brown, vertex whitish; abdomen sericeous brownish. Wings below purer white, with all the markings more sharply defined, the veins rufous-brown, yellowish towards the base; the costa of primaries testaceous: pectus white; legs mottled with fuliginous grey; vertex brassy yellowish at the sides. Expanse of wings 28 millim. Zomba, December 1892 and January 1893. W e have an example of this species in the Museum from Natal; it does not appear to be very closely aided to any known species, but in some respects approaches T. observata. 213. STEMORRHAGES SERICEA. Phalcena Pyralis sericea, Drury, 111. Ex. Ent. ii. p. 9, pi. 6. Zomba, December 1892. 214. HARITALODES MULTILINEALIS. Botys multilinealis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 337, n. 380. Zomba, January 1893. 215. LYGROPIA MUSCERDALIS. Botys muscerdalis, Zeller, Lep. Caffr. p. 43. Zomba, January 1893. 216. CADORENA SINUATA. Phalcena sinuata, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. p. 208, n. 295(1793). Zomba, January 1893. The four preceding Pyrales are the only representatives in the collection of the so-called Micro-Lepidoptera. EXPLANATION OF PLATE LX. Fig. 1. Periplysia johnstoni, 3, p. 647. 2. Charaxes whytei, 3 > p- 649. 3. Junonia aurorina, 3, p. 651. 4. Junonia trimenii, 3, P- 651. 5. Crenis crawshayi, 3 > P- 654. 6. Teracolus rhodesinus, 3, P- 663. 7. Belenois diminuta, $, p. 666. 8. Heteropterus formosus, 3, p- 670. 9. Cyclopides quadrisignatus, 3, p. 670. 10. Anomceotes nigrivenosus, $, p. 676. 11. Staphylinochrous whytei, 3, P- 676. 12, 13. Diospage scintillans, $ $, p. 675. |