( 176) 



on costii two-fifths IVora base, and a sefiond one above apex of cell, and one in 

 middle of cell. Hindwing paler butfish cinnatnnn l)rown. 



Length of forewing : Ifi mm. 



Hub. Moyamba, Sierra Leone, March U'Oil (1). Cator). 



1 <?. 



17. Chlorhoda thoracica spec. nov. 



(?. Pectus crimson ; legs crimson ; tarsi ringed with black inside of tibiae, 

 and coxae pale green; palpi crimson; antennae dark brown; head and thorax 

 bright green ; collar crimson ; ]iatagia broadly edged with crimson ; abdomen 



crimson. Forewing bright green ; costa golden yellow, inner margin scarlet, 



at one-third from liase and two-thirds from liase a black streak about 2 mm. long 



runs into wing from costa and inner margin respectively (4 in all). Hindwing 



semihyaline, orange bnff slightly washed with pale green on outer area. 



?. DiflVrs in having the patagia only slightly edged with crimson, the green 

 of forewing much deeper and more bluish, and tlie hindwing semihyaline crimson; 

 fringe dee]) crimson, a black dot at tornus. 



Length of forewing : <J 21 mm.; ? I'J mm. 



Jldb. La Oroya, Carabaya, S.E. Peru (Ockenden). 



2<J<J,1$. 



18. Seirarctia jacksoni spec. nov. 



i3. Pectus, head, and thorax sooty rufous brown ; antennae white, pectinations 



rufous ; abdomen whitish cinnamon with black transverse bands. Forewings 



rufous, i prorated and banded with sooty black; a black cellular stigma. Hind- 

 wings cinnamon pink, a sooty cellular stigma, and an interrupted semi-obsolescent 

 snbmarginal sooty band. 



?. Similar, but ground-colour of forewings cinnabar red; hindwiugs and 

 abdomen salmon pink. 



Length of forewing : 3 19 mm. ; ? 23 mm. 



Hub. Nairobi to Mount Kenia, British East Africa (Jackson). 



2 SS, 1 ?. 



I'.i. Turruptiana thursbyi spec. nov. 



<J. Pectus, legs, and tegulae iirange ; thorax orange ; patagia sooty black 

 broadly edged with orange ; abdomen black-brown with broad lateral crimson 



bands. Forewings sooty black, basal one-fourth slightly variegated with whitish 



grey, median and postmedian waved transverse bands bullish grey white. 



Hindwing crimson, with broad black border not iiuite reacliing tornus. One 

 specimen has more white on forewing, and two others have the transverse bands 

 dark grey. 



Length of forewing : lo mm. 



JJal/. Valley del Lago Wanco, Chubut, Patagonia (Thursby). 



5 (JcJ. 



20. Stidzaeras strigifera ockendeni subspec. nov. 



?. Differs from .s. stri(jij'ci-a Uruce by the brigiit scarlet not orange-yellow 

 head and tegulae, the almost absent strigilations on the forewing, the last three 

 segments of abdomen being black above and below, only orange laterally, and in 

 the brown-grey of outer area of hindwing being broader and running into orange-buff 

 area in streaks. 



