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Show 266 DE. A. G. BUTLEE ON LEPIDOPTEEA [Mar. 19, in primaries: legs brown, paler internally; venter whitish. Expanse of wings 30 millim. A pair, Fwambo. I have failed to discover any published description of this species. 63. HESPEEIA ?, sp. ? It is impossible to fix even the generic position of this species with certainty, as it has lost its palpi; but it appears to be allied to "Proteides xychus," Mabille, of which it may possibly be the male; the antenna? are white above. 3, Fwambo. H E T E E O C E B A. 64. XANTHOSPILOPTEEYX AFBICANA. Eusemia africana, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xv. p. 142 (1875). Eusemia meretrix, Westwood in Oates's ' Matabele Land/ p. 355 (1881). 2, Zomba. Two somewhat worn specimens were obtained. 65. ANOMCEOTES NIGBIVENOSUS. 2 . Anomceotes nigrivenosus, Butler, P. Z. S. 1893, p. 676, pi. Ix. fig. 10. o*. Smaller than the female, creamy pale straw-yellow, with blackish veins and edges to the wings ; thorax blackish brown; abdomen golden yellow, becoming tawny on the margins of the segments; pectus and legs brown, venter pale yellow; clasps ochraceous brown, shining. Expanse of wings 28 millim. 3 2 • Fwambo. Two males aud one female, the latter slightly longer in wing and wdth blacker thorax than the type ; the front of the discoidal cell of the secondaries also projects slightly more prominently forward in this example; but slight variations of neuration may be expected to occur in this group of Moths. 66. ABGINA LEONINA ( = A. AMANDA, var., Boisd.). Deiopeia leonina, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxxi. p. 262 (1864). o*, Fwambo. 67. ABGINA OCELLINA. Deiopeia ocellina, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 571. n. 9 (1854). 3, Fwambo. The single example of this form has the ground-colour of the primaries white, thus bearing out the opinion which I have long held-that in Africa there is only one species of this genus, of which the synonymy would be as follows :- ABGINA AMANDA. Euchelia amanda, Boisduval, Voy. de Deleg. ii. p. 597 (1847). ,. Deiopeia cingulifera, Walker, Lep. Het. ii. p. 569 (1854). Deiopeia ocellina, Walker, 1. c. p. 571, |