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Show 1893.] BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 669 134. SARANGESA ASTRIGERA, sp. n. Black-brown, with a faint cupreous gloss; fringes spotted with greyish white; a submarginal series of snow-white dots; indications of a discal series of smaller dots, best defined on the primaries ; a minute spot in each discoidal cell; primaries also with two widely separated white points on interno-median area and three small spots in the form of a < beyond the cell: abdomen above black ; antenna? black, ringed with white. Wings below more distinctly shot with cupreous than above, in some lights varying to bronzy green; the white dots on primaries nearly as above, but those on secondaries better defined and forming four imperfect series, consisting respectively of two, five, seven, and eight or nine white dots ; fringes spotted as above : palpi white below ; body greyish. Expanse of wings 33 millim. Zomba, January 1893. 135. CAPRONA PILLAANA. Caprona pillaana, Wallengren, Kongl. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 1857, p. 51; Trimen, South Afr. Butt. pi. xii. figs. 6,Qa (1889). Zomba, January 1893. 136. CAPRONA JAMESONI. Antigonus jamesoni, E. M. Sharpe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 6, vol. vi. p. 348 (1890). Pterygospidea jamesoni, Trimen, P. Z. S. 1891, p. 106, pi. fig. 25. Mipa stream, Mofwi, August 3, 1892 (R. C). 137. HESPERIA DROMUS. Pyrgus dromus, Plotz, Mitth. naturw. Vereins, 1884, p. 6, n. Lake Mweru; Zomba, July and December 1892, January 1893. 138. ACLEROS PHILANDER. Pamphila philander, Hopffer, Monatsber. Kon. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1855, p. 643 ; Peters's Reise nach Mossamb. v. p. 416, pi. 27. figs. 1, 2 (1862). Zomba, July 1892. 139. ACLEROS PLACIDUS. Apaustus placidus, Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 360. Zomba, December 1892 and January 1893. 140. OXYPALPUS RUSO. Pamphila ruso, Mabille, Comptes Rendus Soc. ent. Beige, 1891, clxxxiii. Zomba, December 1892. . The description of the upper surface of primaries seems rather |
