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Show 268 DB. A. G. BUTLEE ON LEPIDOPTEEA [Mar. 19, white; venter with whity-brown basal segment, otherwise ochraceous barred with black-brown. Expanse of wings 49 millim. 2 • Primaries of a clearer yellowish tint than in the male, and with silvery scales sprinkled over the subbasal red markings and within the black annular markings : secondaries ochreous ; a black curved bar on the discocellulars ; outer border black, enclosing six ochreous spots and suffused, near anal angle, with ferruginous. Under surface ochreous, the external border bounded by a black stripe throughout and divided into elongated spots by black nervures; primaries with three blackish nearly central patches, answering to the annular markings of the upper surface; secondaries with the discocellular bar as above, and two small black spots in the cell: body below black, spotted with cream-colour and ochreous. Expanse of wings 53 millim. Fwambo. One male and two females were obtained. The male most nearly resembles Pais gordoni when the wings are open; the female w7hen they are closed, owing to the ochreous colouring of its secondaries. 69. GNOPHEIA (?) FUECIFASCIATA, sp. n. (Plate XVI. fig. 5.) 2 • Primaries above silvery cream-white; the costal margin, fringe of outer margin, an irregular stripe before the middle elbowed just above the submedian vein, and a sigmoidal stripe commencing near apex and terminating at outer third of inner margin, with an inner subsigmoidal fork from median vein to outer fifth of costal margin, jet-black: the secondaries clear bright straw-yellow : body ochreous, the abdomen barred with blackish. Primaries below smoky grey, the borders irregularly ochreous, interrupted on the costa towards apex by two transverse bars of the ground-colour, so as to leave a subapical quadrifid ochreous patch: secondaries ochreous or straw-yellow, with a tapering subapical bar from costa: body below ochreous ; tarsi and venter barred with black. Expanse of wings 51 millim. Fwambo. Of this very striking species we only received one imperfect specimen wanting a head: doubtless it is not, strictly speaking, a Gnophria, but an allied new genus, the lower radial of the primaries being independently emitted from the inferior angle of the cell instead of from the third median branch ; but in the secondaries the radial forms a very short furca with the extremity of the third median branch, the footstalk occupying about three-fourths of the distance between the cell and the margin ; with only an imperfect female, however, it would be premature to propose a new genus for its reception. 70. ALPENUS ^EQCALIS, var. Alpenus cequalis, Walker, Lep. Het. iii. p. 686 (1855). Fwambo. Eastern examples differ from the Western type in having the |