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Show 1893.] BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 671 Wings below cupreous brown; primaries with the ochreous spots larger and brighter than above, that of end of cell deeply incised internally; secondaries immaculate. Expanse of wings 31-35 millim. Zomba, December 1892 and January 1893. T w o somewhat damaged specimens of this distinct species, which at the first casual examination I mistook for C. malgacha, from which, however, they are abundantly distinct. 144. CYCLOPIDES MIDAS, sp. n. Allied to C. metis, chiefly differing above in the much greater size and more golden orange colouring of all the spots ; there is, however, a well-defined short orange streak below the costa near the base, a nearly complete belt of subbasal spots crossing the wings obliquely ; below all the spots are as well defined as above but rather paler, whereas in C. metis the under surface of the secondaries is almost immaculate in the female and quite so in the male. Expanse of wings 30 millim. Zomba, July 1892. In the Hewitson collection a specimen from Nyasa is associated with C. metis, and in the Museum collection is a second specimen, from Victoria Nyanza. 145. PADRAONA WATSONI, sp. n. Resembles Telicota bambusce of Moore ; decidedly larger and rather brighter in colouring; the oblique black band on the primaries with its outer edge acutely produced at first median branch, as in some other species of Padraona, though this band does not run inwards to the base ; the inner branch of the furca also carried forwards to costa; the outer border, however, has an irregularly zigzag inner edge; the base is greyish green, with a black spot, ill-defined in the male, near the base of the cell, and the male has basal black streaks on costal and internal borders ; the ground-colouring of the female is much yellower than that of the male : the pattern of the under surface, but especially on the secondaries, is very similar to that of Telicota bambusce, but the costal border of the primaries is bright yellow, with the differences in the darker markings mentioned as occurring on the upper surface ; the secondaries are bright yellow, with the greyish areas of T. bambusce replaced by greenish ; the blackish anal patch well-defined in the male, subquadrate, bounded internally and at anal angle by golden orange; the blackish submarginal spot well-defined and continued to costa ; the short greyish central band spotted with blackish, and several smaller spots across the basal area; costa greyish. Expanse of wings 40 millim. ' Zomba, 3 July 1892, $ January 1893. It seems to m e that generic distinctions employed for species bearing so close a resemblance to one another as the present insect and Telicota bambusce are somewhat arbitrary and not altogether satisfactory; but the Hesperiidae are such a difficult |