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Show 676 DR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM [Nov. 7, probably referable to Biospage, is Glaucopis iridea, Mabille; but Sphinx auratus (Stoll), Cramer, does not belong to the genus. 165. NEUROSYMPLOCA PROCRIOIDES, sp. n. Primaries smoky grey or semitransparent sooty black; secondaries darker, with bright blue gloss : body black ; patagia ochreous*; venter ochreous with black anal segment. Expanse of wings 32 millim. Zomba, January 1893. 166. ANOMCEOTES NIGRIVENOSUS, sp. n. (Plate LX. fig. 10.) Allied to A. tenella, Holland; orange-tawny; semitransparent primaries, with the veins black ; the costa, apex, and a narrow decreasing external border diffused grey ; neuration distorted ; the second and third subcostal branches on a very short footstalk; upper discocellular continued transversely across the upper radial and uniting close below it with the lower radial, which is thrown forward from the third median branch at an oblique angle; the normal lower discocellular thrown backwards as a forked recurrent vein, its lower furca uniting with the median vein just beyond the second branch: secondaries wider than in A. tenella, the outer border narrowly grey ; in the type the right-hand wing has partly developed an upper radial vein between the second subcostal branch and the ordinary radial: body tawny ochreous; legs brownish. Expanse of wings 31 millim. Zomba, July 1892. In low types of Lepidoptera like the Phaudince, the neuration seems to be very variable; so that characters which in some groups would be of the utmost importance for generic purposes are seen to be utterly unreliable : in all the most important features of its neuration A. nigrivenosus agrees with typical Anomceotes. STAPHYLINOCHROUS, gen. nov. Nearest to Boradia : primaries elongate triangular; costal vein throwing off three perpendicular veinlets to the margin before the regular branches; first and second branches emitted from a footstalk before the end of the cell and united by an oblique veinlet to the third above its separation from the fifth ; the third, fourth, and fifth emitted from a footstalk which throws off the fifth branch halfway between the cell and the furca formed by the third and fourth branches ; anterior part of the cell projecting prominently forwards ; lower radial and third median branch emitted together from a short footstalk : secondaries with neuration as in Anomceotes, but the anterior part of the cell projecting more prominently forwards: body as in Boradia, with similar antennae. Type S. whytei. 167. STAPHYLINOCHROUS WHYTEI, sp. n. (Plate LX. fig. 11.) Orange-tawny ; apical two-sevenths of primaries occupied by a belt of smoky grey, regularly tapering from costa to external angle |