OCR Text |
Show 1895.] FBOM BEITISH CENTEAL AFBICA. 269 annular markings on tbe primaries filled in with black and partly confluent towards costa; in all probability a series collected right across Africa from west to east would exhibit every grade from one type to the other: it is also extremely probable that A. eequalis will prove to be quite inseparable from A. maculosus of Stoll, which only differs in its finer maculation. 71. PLEEETES THELWALLI. Hypercompa thelwalli, Druce, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 779, pi. 61. fig. 1. Zomba. One female was obtained. 72. LECHEIOLEPIS VAEIA. Amydona varia, Walker, Lep. Het. vi. p. 1414 (1855). Fwambo. A most brilliantly coloured species when in good condition. 73. LEBEDA VENOSA, sp. n. (Plate XVI. fig. 6.) Primaries to beyond the middle greyish flesh-colour, beyond which they are darker brownish flesh-colour; the costa and all the veins deep ochreous ; two ill-defined whitish stripes, the first transverse, straight, crossing the centre of the paler basal area, the other oblique, bounding the basal area beyond the middle ; an ill-defined pale spot in the upper angle of the cell and an irregular discal series of whitish spots or lunules, with greyer external borders; fringe cream-coloured : secondaries brownish flesh-coloured, shading into ochraceous buff towards base and abdominal margin; veins and fringe as on the primaries : thorax pinky ochraceous, .deeper at centre of collar and base of pterygodes ; sides of collar greyish ; antennae greyish flesh-coloured, abdomen ochraceous buff. Wings below greyish flesh-coloured, with the veins, margins, and basal hairy clothing ochreous; body below7 ochreous. Expanse of wings, 3 81 millim., § 70 millim. Fwambo. I had an idea that I had seen au illustration of this species, but finally discovered that Moeschler's Philotherma jacchus was the insect I was thinking of. The primaries of the latter are very similar, both in general coloration and pattern, to L. venosa, but the secondaries are entirely different both in form and coloration. 74. HlBEILDES NOBAX. Hibrildes norax, Druce, P. Z. S. 1887, p. 675. 2 •> Fwambo. One much-worn example was obtained. 75. TANOBOPSIS FLAVINATA. Dreata fkivinata, Walker, Lep. Het. xxxii. p. 573 (1865). 2, Fwambo. A slightly aberrant example, though apparently hardly referable to a distinct species. |