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Show 1895.] FEOM BBITISH CENTEAL AFBICA. 265 surface is blue-black, with a broad quadrate snow-white patch occupying three (not four) segments on each side and separated by a broad black dorsal stripe ; looking at the insect in profile this patch is seen to be"united by a stripe of white to a narrower white patch on the basal segment; the venter, again, is snow-white down the centre, but purplish black at the sides ; the front and middle coxal joints are clothed with carmine hair and the sides of the pectus with delicate long white hair; the tibial and tarsal joints are white. Three specimens, Fwambo. It is hardly probable that staining would convert three central and a basal snow-white segments of the abdomen into four central fulvous segments, or peacock-green into chalybeous black; but when it is noted that all the other white markings remain unchanged in Westwood's insect, the chance of change by staining becomes next to impossible. The Zambezi insect is probably nearer to S. paradisea than is S. trimeni : thus the fulvous segments are accounted for. 60. CYCLOPIDES MIDAS. (Plate XV. fig. 6.) Cyclopides midas, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 671. . o*, Fwambo. 61. BAOBIS INCONSPICUA. Hesperia inconspicua, Bertoloni, M e m . Ace. Bol. 1849, p. 15. Fwambo. One starved example, with unusually brightly-coloured under surface. , 62. CEBATEICHIA PUNCTULATA, sp. n. (Plate XV. fig. 7.) Above with the general aspect of G. stellata (Cycl. mineni, Trimen), black-brown : primaries with two superposed white dots in the cell, and a slightly irregular elbowed series of eight slightly larger white spots beyond the cell; fringe greyer than the wings, especially at the tips, and interrupted at its base by a series of elongated whitish spots: secondaries wdth five indistinct whitish dots in a zigzag series beyond the cell; fringe as in the primaries : abdomen black, edges of segments white laterally; antennae with white rings, the club only ringed below ; palpi greyish. Primaries below blackish, the costal border and apex yellowish olive-brown, traversed by whitish veins ; the white spots arranged as above but larger, the elbowed series having an additional white point between the seventh and eighth spots; fringe blackish, with conspicuous elongated white spots and grey tips: secondaries yellowish olive-brown, with whitish veins ; the white spots larger than above and seven additional spots, two bounding the middle third of tbe subcostal area, a small one in the cell behind the upper discocellular, and the other four in pairs bounding the middle third of interno-median area; an indistinct zigzag whitish submarginal line, also feebly indicated on the primaries ; fringe as |
