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Show 670 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM [Nov. 7, vague, but I think, from the striking character of the under-surface markings, there can be little doubt that this is Mabille's species ; the upper surface appears to be not much unlike the Pamphila cjisgon of the same author. 141. OSMODES RANOHA. Pamphila ranoha, Westwood in Oates's' Matabele-Land,' p. 353 (1881). Zomba, December 1892 and January 1893. The Hewitson collection contains two specimens unnamed, labelled " Zanzibar " and " Nyassa " respectively. 142. HETEROPTERUS FORMOSUS, sp. n. (Plate LX. fig. 8.) Black-brown, with an angular ochreous subapical band, constricted or divided at third median branch, and a small spot of the same colour near external angle; secondaries with six submarginal ochreous spots, the fringe usually varied with the same colour ; the head and thorax more or less clothed with dull ochraceous hairs : primaries below dark cupreous brown, almost black ; costal margin sprinkled with pale yellowish scales; a subcostal longitudinal streak, followed below origin of first subcostal branch by a spot; a shorter streak in the cell; a minute transverse spot at end of cell; the angular band and spot of upper surface bright ochreous ; internervular folds terminating in a marginal series of more or less triangular pale yellow spots; outer edge of fringe slightly varied with yellow at apex : secondaries milk-whitish, the sub-median interspace pale sordid yellow, traversed towards anal angle by a looped blackish line from submedian vein; all the veins black; a large subbasal oblong spot linking the costal and subcostal veins, an irregular central band from second subcostal branch to submedian vein, and a submarginal macular band, consisting of seven divisions, bright ochreous, edged with black ; fringe black, almost wholly tipped with ochreous: palpi below black at base, their fringes at first wliitish, then reddish ochreous, faintly tipped with black; pectus and legs clothed with ochreous hair; venter black, with ochreous spots at the sides, creamy white in the centre. Expanse of wings 33-36 millim. Zomba, December 1892 and January 1893. Evidently this beautiful species is not rare. 143. CYCLOPIDES QUADRISIGNATUS, sp. n. (Plate LX. fig. 9.) Intermediate between C. metis and cegipan • purplish brown; a sinuous transverse spot at end of cell, two obliquely placed trifid subapical spots and a larger bifid spot cut by the second median branch, ochreous ; a few very short ochreous bristles below the median vein : secondaries with a few fine ochreous hairs in the cell; a bifid spot at end of cell, a smaller squamous spot below apex and another in first median interspace ochreous: body blackish; antennae ringed with white, club more or less ochreous, |