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Show 848 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA [Nov. 1 7, primaries with two conspicuous black spots at the end of the cell; secondaries with a fairly broad smoky black border; body smoky black; shaft of antenna?, head, collar, shoulders, and anal tuft ochreous : wings below paler than above, primaries with a large almost semicircular subapical blackish patch from end of cell; body below ochreous, blackish at the sides. Expanse of wings 27 millim. 6 6, Kondowi, 4000 feet alt., Nyika, Feb. 21st, 1896. "Day flier" (ii. ft). The sexes in this genus differ so much that it wrould not greatly surprise m e to discover that the following form was the female of A. blstigmigera: at the same time, as Sir George Hampson points out, the pattern is so dissimilar that it wotdd be absurd to put the two together without trustworthy proof of their identity: then again it is just as likely that A. ochraceata (which we have received from Zomba) may be tbe female of this species, inasmuch as it often has two spots at the end of the cell of primaries, though in other respects it is utterly dissimilar. 141. AROA CHARAX, Druce. (Plate XLII. fig. 8.) 2 . Upper surface tawny orange wdth broad smoky brown outer borders, that of the primaries occupying the apical third of the wing and crossed by blackish veins (which colouring commences on the orange area); border of secondaries abruptly narrowed towards anal angle; fringes sericeous, dark grey; a conspicuous black spot at the end of each discoidal cell; primaries with narrow dusky costal margin, three small black spots across the base; antenna? and third joint of palpi black ; abdomen paler than thorax, golden ochreous with a dorsal series of black spots : wings below nearly as above, no subbasal spots on the primaries: body below bright ochreous; tarsi of all the legs and tibia? of front and middle pairs black. Expanse of wings 43 millim. Deep Bay, April 30th, 1895. 142. LYMANTRIA BANANJE, sp. n. (Plate XLII. fig. 9.) $. Primaries semitransparent cream-coloured, the basal third smoky brown, bisinuated in front; costa to end of cell the same colour confluent with a constricted Y-shaped bar which crosses the end of the cell; an oblique zigzag smoky-brown line, incurved towards costa, across the disc ; a marginal irregular patch of the same colour near apex, and a second at external angle, also an intermediate small triangular intermediate spot; veins, excepting from tbe end of tbe cell to the apex, partly brown and partly blackish; and all the veins as they cross the zigzag line blackish : secondaries semitransparent pale golden ochreous, more opaque and more distinctly ochreous on abdominal two-fifths : body above tawny ochraceous, palest at the extremities, somewhat vinaceous on the thorax; antenna? and tips of palpal joints black : under surface of wings immaculate; body cream-coloured, a few orange hairs on |
