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Show 1871.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW LEPIDOPTERA. 81 apex. Hind wings-basal area abruptly limited by a somewhat arched and wedge-shaped ochreous patch, which towards the apex unites with a geminate ochraceous chain-band enclosing internally black hastate spots. Body above blackish. Wings below greyish, paler than above. Front wings with white oblique band; chain-like markings less distinct than above. Body below grey. Expanse of wings 2 inches 11| lines. Hab. Fantee, Cape Coast (Ussher). Coll. Swanzy. Allied to A. opis, Drury. ATERICA ZONARA, n. sp. cS. Wings above tawny, with three macular brown bands, the outermost distinctly separated into spots ; the costa and outer margin of front wings, some irregular basal characters, the base of hind wings,* and a submarginal broken line in hind wings dark brown; fringe blackish. Body above dark tawny. Wings below pale tawny; a dentate, sinuate, submarginal brown line, and a series of black discal points. Front wings with a black spot, and 8-shaped marking within the cell; a second marking, less distinct, at end of cell, and a series, very indistinct, terminating basal area ; a squamose, oblique, blackish streak from apex to below first median branch. Hind wings with three black spots in cell, which is surrounded by an irregular series of tawny blackish-edged markings, enclosing a pale notched lunate patch, which crosses discocellular, median, and submedian interspaces. Body below greyish. Expanse of wings 2 inches 4 lines. 2 . Wings above brown, with pale ochreous markings answering to ground-colour of male; hind wings with pale ochreous patch, nearly as in the preceding species, but narrower and more diffused externally ; wings below as in the male, but paler. Expanse of wings 2 inches 6 lines. Hab. Fantee, Cape Coast (Ussher). Coll. Swanzy. Belongs to the Absolon group. Genus DEILEPHILA. DEILEPHILA SPINIFASCIA, n. sp. Intermediate between D. livornica and D.galii. Front wings with a pale median ochraceous band, as in D. livornica, throwing off five or six recurrent spine-like streaks along nervures towards costal area. Hind wings as in D. galii, excepting that the white spot near anal angle is placed above the line of the rosy band, and is bounded on both sides by black. Body differs from that of D. galii in that it exhibits five, more or less, black decreasing bands on each side of the central brown stripe. Wings below freckled with blackish scales, otherwise almost as in D. galii. Expanse of wings 3 inches. Hab. Buenos Ayres (Burmeister). B.M. This species, the following, and Dirphia venata were sent to the PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1871, No. VI. |