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Show 1887.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM TROPICAL AFRICA. 673 pinkish yellow. Secondaries yellow, the outer margin from the to the anal angle broadly bordered with slate-colour. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale yellow, antennae black. Expanse 1 inch. Hab. West Africa : Cameroons (Rutherford). A pretty little specie-, in form very like H. doleris, hut quite different in colour. Fam. LAPARID^E. CYPRA, Boisd. CYPRA NYSES, H. sp. Primaries and secondaries uniform semihyaline white, slightly shaded with pale yellowish along the costal margin of the former, a small black spot at the apex and anal angle of both wings. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellowish white. Antennas and legs pale brown. Expanse 1^ inch. Hab. West Africa : Old Calabar (White). This species is allied to C. crocipes, Boisd., from Madagascar, from which it is at once distinguished by the black spots on the wings. ANAPHE, Walk. A N A P H E MOLONEYI, n. sp. (Plate LV. fig. 5, 3 .) Male. Primaries creamy white, crossed beyond the middle from the costal margin to the inner margin by a wide black band, not broken in the middle as in A. carteri, the costal margin broadly banded with black from the base to the apex, the outer margin narrowly edged with black, and all the veins black, from the outer margin almost up to the black band crossing the wing. Secondaries creamy white, with the fringe black. Underside the same as above, excepting the band on the primaries being very indistinct. Head, the underside of the thorax, and the abdomen pale yellowish brown, the upperside of the thorax creamy white. AntennaeJblack, legs brownish yellow. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. West Africa : Gambia (Capt. A. Moloney). This species is allied to A. carteri, Walsingham, but very distinct in the form of the black band and the black costal margin, also the veins being black almost up to the band crossing the wings. The large cocoon from which A. moloneyi came out was brought to this country by Captain Moloney, who kindly handed it to me. It is almost the" shape of a large pear, about five inches long, and was found hanging from a branch of a tree by a fine silken thread : unfortunately only one moth came out; the large cocoon contains a great number of small cocoons packed very closely together. The silk appears to be of a very tough nature, and is of a reddish-brown colour. The pupa is dark brown in colour, enclosed in a loosely made silken cocoon. , , . , r *r A TT- • I have lately received, through tne kindness ot Mr. A. Higgins, |
