The Moths of South Africa. 395 



(4) L.ELIA ADSPERSA, HeiT.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 109 (1854). 



prolixa, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 162 (1860). 

 Hab. Nigeria, Lokoja ; Natal, Malvern (Marshall), Durban 

 (Gooch, Bowker). Exp. 30-38 mill. 



(5) L.ELIA SETINOIDES, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 431 (1893). 



Hab. West Africa, Cameroons, Congo ; British East Africa, 

 Kanisa, Shambe ; Natal, Victoria District (Gooch). Exp. 

 32-40 mill. 



(6) LJELIA PUNCTULATA, Butl. A.M.N.H. (4) xvi. p. 400 (1875). 

 Hab. Natal, Durban (Burrows, Leigh) ; Cape Colony (Sir A. 



Smith), King William's Town (Lightfoot). Exp. 28-36 mill. 



(7) L.5ELIA H-EMATICA, n. Sp. 



Head and thorax yellow ; patagia crimson ; abdomen ocbreous 

 white. Forewing yellow suffused with crimson except on costal 

 area ; a black-irrorated fascia below cell to origin of vein 2 ; a spot 

 in end of cell or a fascia extending to near termen ; a postmedial 

 series of small spots, the one above vein 4 displaced inwards, then 

 running obliquely towards the submedian fascia. Hindwing semi- 

 hyaline white, the cilia tinged with ochreous. 



Hab. British East Africa, Nairowa, Gwelil (Betton) ; Mashona- 

 land, Salisbury (Marshall, Dobbie). Exp. 32 mill. Type in B.M. 



(8) L.3ELIA SUBEOSEA, Wlk. iv. 801 (1855). 



,, subnifa, Snell. Tijds. v. Ent. xv. p. 39 (1872), and xxii. 



p. 105, pi. 8, f. 6 (1879). 



,, rosea, Schaus, S. Leone Lep. p. 26, pi. 1, f. 3 (1893). 

 Hab. Sierra Leone ; Natal, Durban (Leigh). Exp. <? 28, 

 ? 36 mill. 



(9) L.ELIA DIASCIA, n. Sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white. Forewing ochreous 

 white rather thickly irrorated with fuscous forming indistinct streaks 

 in the interspaces, the streak in discal fold very distinct ; an oblique 

 series of four points from median nervure near end of cell to vein 1 ; 

 a postmedial series of points in the interspaces, running obliquely 

 from below vein 7 near termen to submedian fold with a slight out- 

 ward curve at middle, then bent inwards towards the medial series, 

 a dark shade on the inner side of the series sometimes present. 

 Hindwing white with a slight yellowish tinge. 



Hab. Abyssinia, Atbara ; British East Africa, Kikuyu (Cruwshay, 



