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Show 586 PR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIBOPTERA [June 19, terminating at basal third ; subcostal branching beyond the end of <?ell, the first branch thrown off just beyond the cell, running obliquely upwards to costal vein, which it joins just beyond its middle ; the two other branches forming a long fork to outer margin immediately below apex ; upper radial also emitted from the subcostal vein immediately beyond the cell; upper discocellular oblique and slightly inangled at its upper extremity ; lower discocellular nearly transverse ; costal vein of secondaries normal ; discoidal cell short, narrow, almost elliptical, not quite extending to basal third of wing; subcostal branches emitted from a long footstalk, upper discocellular very oblique, almost in a line with the radial; lower discocellular less oblique, half the length of upper; radial and median branches nearly equidistant, the first and second branches being widest apart at their origins. 163. PHASICNECUS GREGORII, sp. n. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 6.) 2 . Wings semitransparent buff ; primaries with ochreous costal margin and basal hairy clothing ; a slightly sinuous series of six vinous spots across the disc from below subcostal vein to below first median branch; body ochreous ; antennae rufous brown with buff pectinations: under surface paler and immaculate, antennae below somewhat greyish. Expanse of wungs 40 millim. Sabaki Valley. One slightly rubbed female example. 164. LEBEPA, sp. A very much shattered female specimen of a species very close to (if distinct from) L. ferruginea; in pattern it seems to correspond almost exactly; but it is smaller and more sandy in colouring; in any case it has been too much injured by Dermestes to be worth preserving. Clearing through forest six miles east of Witu, 22nd December, 1892. 165. TRLLOCHA VARIANS, var. ALBICOLLIS. Naprepa albicollis, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. p. 171 (1862). Ngatana. 166. SATURNIA OUBIE. Bombyx oubie, Guerin, Voy. in Abyss, p. 387, pi. xii. figs. 1, 2. Platform on Kikuyu Escarpment above Kedong, Newia. One much shattered example. 167. SATURNIA, sp. Two extremely worn pairs of a species close to S. wallengrenii; possibly that species. 3 2 , Tzavo. Felder's figure is not very good, and the specimens now received are much shattered and rubbed; so that it is impossible to be certain whether they are really distinct. |