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Show 590 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [June 19, line from anal angle to radial vein ; fringe white. Head and front of thorax purplish black ; shaft of antennae and a connecting line across the head white ; back of thorax dusky, abdomen whity brown. Primaries below sericeous greyish brown ; the black patch of the upper surface faintly indicated by a wedge-shaped whitish-bordered patch ; fringe white : secondaries whity brown, speckled with grey-brown, which becomes denser and forms a diffused patch at apex ;" a dusky elongated spot at end of cell; a slender blackish marginal line; fringe white: body below sericeous whitish. Expanse of wings 25 millim. Sabaki Valley. 192. TRIGONODES HYPPASIA. Phalcena-Nociua hyppasia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 99, pi. ccl. E (1782). Nzoai. 193. ACANTHOLIPES CIRCUMDATA. Hydrelia? circumdata, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1763 (1858). Nzoai and Sabaki Valley. 194. DRASTERIA MUTUARIA. Remigia mutuaria, Walker, Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1506. n. 7 (1857). Kithungulu. 195. REMIGIA REPANPA. Noctua repanda, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 49. n. 133(1793). Ngatana; Ndara. Two much-worn examples of species belonging, probably, to different genera allied to Zethes complete the typical Noctuce. 196. OPHIUCHE MASURIALIS. Hypena masurialis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 3S. n. 40. Sabaki Valley. 197. OPHIUCHE ECHIONALIS. Hypena echionalis, Walker, Lep. Het, xvi. p. 230 (1858). Mkonumbi, grassy steppes. 198. HYPENA VULGATALIS. Hypena vulgatalis, Walker, Lep. Het, xvi. p. 82 (1858). Hypena palpitralis, Walker, 1. c. Karati; Konu District; Ukikuya country; Tana river-basin, beside swamp. Three very much-worn examples. Three other specimens in the collection I have been unable to name : two of these may be modifications of H. tristalis ; the third is probably new, but too bad for description. |