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Show 1895.] FROM BRITISH EAST AFRICA. 741 114. EEMIGIA REPANDA. Noctua repanda, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 49 (1793). Kampala and Uganda, Feb. 1894. 115. HYPENA VELATIPENNIS. Hypena velatipennis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xvi. p. 410 (1875). Kazamaza's, Euwenzori, 5300 feet, between 13th and 23rd April. The single example obtained was so much worn and broken as to be barely identifiable. 116. ZEBRONIA PODALIRIALIS. Spilomela podalirialis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyr. p. 281. Kampala and Uganda, Feb. 1894. 117. COPTOBASIS OVALIS. Botys ovalis, Walker, Lep. Het. xviii. p. 636. Kazamaza's, Euwenzori, 5300 feet, between 13th and 23rd April. One much shattered and worn example, apparently referable to this species. 118. AOROPTERIS ERYCINARIA. Micronia erycinaria, Guene'e, Uran. et Phal. ii. p. 30 (1857). Kampala and Uganda, Feb. 1894. One shattered example. 119. HETERABRAXAS ROSEOVITTATA, sp. n. (Plate XLIII. figs. 2, 3.) 2. Primaries creamy whitish, with pale golden reflections; coarsely and sparsely striated with short black lines and traversed longitudinally by two divergent rose-coloured streaks, the first passing through the cell and the second through interno-median interspace ; faint traces of rosy streaks also between the subcostal veins : secondaries silvery white flecked with black: head and prothorax ochreous; antennae dull black; meso- and metathorax rose-colour; abdomen ochreous, barred with grey and speckled with black. Wings below sericeous white, with yellowish tinted costal borders: primaries suffused with pale pink and with fairly well-defined rose-coloured longitudinal streaks as above; transverse striations mostly grey excepting on costal margin : secondaries more strongly flecked with black than above : pectus and femora rose-coloured, tibiae and tarsi fuliginous ; venter ochreous, mottled with black. Expanse of wings 48 millim. 2 , Kampala and Uganda, Feb. 1894. This very aberrant-looking Heterabraxas differs from its Indian and European allies in its relatively smaller secondaries and the straighter costal margin of the primaries; the nervures, especially |