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Show 1896.] FROM NYASA-LAND. 845 cell dusted with grey ; a submarginal series of ochreous lunules ; a partly zigzag dusky marginal border, interrupted on the fringe by ochreous spots : secondaries with a slender black marginal line : body below deep ochreous ; tibia?, tarsi, and venter more or less blackish. Expanse of wings 55 millim. Luvira River, Nyasa to Tanganyika plateau, Dec. 14th, 1895. It is possible that this species may eventually be separated from Phalera as the type of a new genus, but at present there does not seem sufficient evidence of the importance of the characters which differentiate it to warrant its being thus distinguished; the width of the wings and the antennal characters are not uniform in the genus, whilst the position of the upper radial is the same as in P. sigmata. 131. PANTOCTENIA GEMMANS. Pantoctenia gemmans, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. pl. lxxxii. fig. 16 (1874). Kasungu Mountain, 7425 feet alt,, Nyika, March 2nd, 1896. 132. TJEDA PRASINA. (Plate XIII. fig. 4.) Taeda prasina, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. xviii. p. 161 (1896). Luvira Biver, Nyasa to Tanganyika plateau, Dec. 14tb, 1895. SCOTINOCHROA, gen. nov. Allied to Cosuma, neuration the same ; antenna? longer and more uniformly pectinated ; palpi totally dissimilar-much longer, falciform, the second joint long, subcylindrical, somewhat flattened internally, directed obliquely upwards, third joint half tbe length of the second, somewhat acuminate; tarsi of front pair of legs not fringed as in Cosuma, and those of the second and third pairs rather penicillated than fringed, each joint having a fairly7 well-defined separate flattened tuft at the back. 133. SCOTINOCHROA INCONSEQUENS, sp. n. Primaries above vinaceous chocolate-brown, sprinkled with shining, mostly leaden-grey scales ; a D-shaped spot at the end of the cell, connate with an oblique irregular band from costa near apex to inner margin, this band is narrowest and inarched at its upper extremity, widest towards the inner margin ; both spot and band are mostly whity brown externally and shining leaden grey in the middle, and are bounded internally by irregular black dashes and externally by a black line; from the cell dow;nwrards the inner margin of the band is zigzag and the outer margin undulated, and followed by an abbreviated similar band, which, however, has no leaden central scales (and therefore stands out as a pale patch wdth undulated outer margin) : secondaries pale sericeous vinaceous, showing slight greenish reflections in certain lights ; the abdominal border and base of fringe sienna or golden brownish; centre of |