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Show 887.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM TROPICAL AFRICA. 669 This species is most nearly allied to E. butleri, Walk. ; a specimen of this insect is in the National Collection, from the same locality. Fam. ARCTIID.E. PELOCHYTA, Hiibn. P E L O C H Y T A FENNIA, n. sp. Primaries reddish brown, with a large, round, semihyaline spot at the end of the cell, and three minute black dots close to the base. Secondaries pinkish brown, bright pink along the inner margin, and about the middle of the outer margin, from the middle to almost the costal margin, pinkish hyaline. Underside, primaries the same as above; the secondaries bright pink, slightly shaded with brown along the costal margin and at the apex. Head and thorax reddish brown, with two small black dots in front, and one on each of the tegulae, also three black dots at the base; abdomen bright pink, with a row of black spots on each side ; legs dark blackish brown above, and pinkish on the underside ; antennae and palpi black. Hab. West Africa : Gambia (Capt. A. Moloney). This species is much darker in colour than any other in the genus. PELOCHYTA LUPIA, n. sp. Primaries aud secondaries pure white, slightly shaded with very pale fawn-colour along the costal margin and apex of the former, a faint darker line at the end of the cell, and one beyond, partly enclosing a large semihyaline spot. Head and thorax and base of abdomen white, a small black dot in front of the head, two on the front of the thorax, and one on each of the tegulae. Antennae brownish black. iVbdomen above bright carmine, with a row of black dots on each segment on both sides ; the underside white ; legs white, shaded with carmine. Expanse 1 ^ inch. Hab. East Africa: Delagoa Bay (3Lrs. Monteiro). This species is quite distinct from any other known to me; it closely resembles Halesidota 1 nivea, Herr.-Sch., from Brazil. ANACE, Walk. A N A C E HERONA, n. sp. Primaries almost uniform yellowish white, slightly darker along the costal margin; a red spot on the inner margin close to the base ; secondaries uniform pale yellow. Underside of all the wings pale yellowish white, the costal margin of the secondaries shaded with red. The lower part of the head and underside of the thorax reddish ; the upper half of the head, collar, thorax, and tegulae white, with veiy indistinct reddish lines. Abdomen yellowish, with a tuft of bright red hairs on each side close to the base. Expanse If inch. Hab. West Africa : Mongo-ma Lubah (Thompson). A specimen of this species is also in the British Museum, from Aburi. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1887, No. XLIV. 44 |