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Show 680 MR. H. DRUCE ON N E W SPECIES OF [Dec. 20, lines are not so distinct. Head and thorax reddish brown; tegulae brown, edged with white. Abdomen on the upperside creamy white, the underside brownish black ; legs dark reddish brown. Expanse 3 inches. Hab. West Africa : Cameroons. This fine species is allied to M. splendens, from which it is at once distinguished by the white secondaries. The male of this species is unknown. PACHYPASA, Walk. PACHYPASA ? MASSILIA, n. sp. Female. Primaries and secondaries uniform reddish fawn-colour. Primaries with four whitish patches, the first three near the apex, the fourth close to the anal angle ; a minute white spot at the end of the cell; the underside of all the wings paler than above, the secondaries broadly banded with greyish white from the base along the costal margin almost to the apex. Head and the thorax reddish fawn-colour. Abdomen dark brown, each segment banded with long whitish hairs, the underside of the abdomen greyish brown ; legs dark brown. Antennae black. Expanse 5f inches. Hab. West Africa : Cameroons (Rutherford). This fine species is quite different to any I have seen ; it is the only specimen obtained by the late Mr. Rutherford, and is allied to Pachypasa subfascia, Walk. PACHYPASA? PHOCEA, n. sp. Female. Primaries reddish brown, darkest near the apex and along the outer margin; a wide dark brown band, which is narrower in the middle, crosses the wing from beyond the middle on the costal margin to about the middle of the inner margin ; on each side of the band the wing is thickly irrorated with minute white scales ; the fringe reddish brown. Secondaries uniform yellowish fawn-colour, palest at the base, the fringe pale fawn-colour. Underside of all the wings reddish fawn-colour, speckled with a few greyish scales ; the upperside of the head and thorax the same colour as the primaries ; abdomen yellowish, above the anal segment reddish brown ; the underside of the head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown; legs brown, tarsi with white bands. Antennae white on the upper-side, reddish brown on the underside. Expanse 3f inches. Hab. East Africa: Delagoa Bay (Mrs. Monteiro). A fine species, allied to P. bilinea, Walk. GONOMETA, Walk. GONOMETA NYSA, n. sp. Male. Primaries and secondaries, upper and inner side, chestnut-brown, with all the veins slightly darker ; the head, antenna. |