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Show 1893.] BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA. 679 Although the Noctuce are tolerably well represented in the present collection, all the species obtained belong to the " quadrifid" type. 184. iEDIA DULOISTRIGA. Anophia dulcistriga, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1811 (1858). Zomba, December 1892. 185. POLYDESMA UMBRICOLA. Polydesma umbricola, Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madag. p. 108, n. 1, pi. 13. fig. 5. Zomba, July 1892. This species seems to be common throughout Africa. 186. CALLIODES RIYULIGERA, sp. n. Umber-brown, suffused, but especially towards external border, with olivaceous greenish and towards base with slaty greyish ; crossed by numerous irregular black stripes, some of which are partly shot with dull blue, but the two following the ocellus on primaries with shining leaden grey ; the first four stripes on the primaries irregularly angulated, the fifth falciform, bounding the outer edge of the ocellus, becoming leaden towards costa; sixth stripe arched and undulated ; seventh parallel to the sixth, macular ; the eighth slender, submargiual, undulated, not reaching the costa; the ninth slender, slightly undulated, marginal; fringe traversed by an indistinct central pale line; ocellus with the ~ -shaped part bronze-green shaded with olive-brown, edged with pale brown, bordered below with black, the lobe of the *• broadly black externally and crossed by three equidistant metallic leaden bars; the tail of the ^ enclosing a perpendicular metallic leaden streak; the V-shaped portion of the ocellus, enclosed by the comma, shining leaden grey, interrupted by longitudinal bars of the ground-colour and bounded on both sides by pure white, more or less triangular spots : secondaries without basal bands ; a short bar crossing the cell, followed by two parallel irregularly denticulated angulated bands, then three tolerably regular parallel zigzag stripes, a series of subconfluent diamond-shaped spots, a sub-marginal zigzag stripe ; marginal line and fringe as on primaries : body normal, but darker than in C. apollina. Under surface pale brick-red ; primaries greyish at external border, which is bounded internally by a blackish zigzag line, interrupted by blackish veins, encloses a series of blackish spots, and is edged externally by a black marginal line ; fringe as above ; across the disk is a second indistinct interrupted zigzag or lunulated line, interrupted in the middle by two conspicuous superposed black spots; a blackish looped character represents the reniform spot, and on the interno-median interspace there is a blackish longitudinal streak: secondaries with a black discocellular spot; a black lunulated discal stripe, a black dentate-sinuate submarginal line connected with PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1893, No. XLVI. 46 |
