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Show 1894.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 593 marginal series of ill-defined whitish spots on the border; fringes of all the wings white spotted with grey. Antennae ochraceous ; thorax grey; abdomen grey, with white segmental bands ; anal extremity ochreous. Wings below slightly paler than above, otherwise similar: body below creamy whitish, tarsi tinted with ochreous. Expanse of wings 29 millim. Mount Kenya, in bamboo-jungle at 7500 feet, and in the upper bamboo zone at 900 feet. I know of no species nearly related to this very pretty little Geometer. 213. PHILEREME NATALATA. Scotosia natalata, Walker, Lep. Het. xxv. p. 1351. n. 19 (1862). 2, Nzoai. 214. LASIOCHLORA SALIATA. Racheospila saliata, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. pi. cxxvii. fig. 36. Ngatana. 215. PROBLEPSIS VESTALIS. Argyris vestcdis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xvi. p. 419. n. 132 (1875). Sabaki Valley. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE XXXVI. Fig. 1. Neocanyra duplex, 2 > P- 560. 2. gregorii, p. 500. 3. Castalius yreyorii ?, p. 568. 4. Spindasis nyasscs, p. 569. 5, 6. Teracolus puniceus, p. 573. 7. foliaceus, p. 573. 8,9. pyrrhopterus, p. 575. PLATE XXXVII. Fig. 1,2. Belenois infida, p. 578. 3. zochalia, var., p. 579. 4. Herpmnia iterata, p. 580. 5. Ghoria niyricosiata, p. 583. 6. Phasicnecus gregorii, p. 586. 7. Eublemma reducta, p. 588. 8. Colbusa pentagonalis, p. 589. 9. Ortholitha monosticta, p. 592. 10. Gataclysme argyridia, p. 592. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1894, No. XL, 40 |
