NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 1915. 3g3 



Masindi, June 1897 (Dr. Ausorge). Type in coll. Rothschild. 

 The coloration rather recalls //. emaria Brem. 



101. Hemerophila contenta sp. nov. 



<S, 39 mm. Face pale ochreons brown, mixed, especially in middle, with 

 red-brown. Palpus of moderate length, pale ochreons brown, mixed on upper and 

 outer sides with red-brown. Tongue short. Vertex, thorax and abdomen con- 

 colorous with wings. Antennal pectinations long, ceasing rather abruptly at about 

 three-fourths. Abdomen rather long. 



Forewing rather narrow, termen waved, not crenulate, rather strongly oblique 

 in posterior part; SC'-^ short-stalked, SC- connected by bar with SC^-'; dirty 

 whitish, irrorated with ochreons brown and marked with red-brown, tending in 

 places to dark fnscons ; some indefinite suflFiision at base ; first line sinuous, very 

 oblique from one-fourth hindmargiu in the direction of cell-spot, ceasing abont at 

 M, nowhere well distinguishable from a dark shade which accompanies it proximally 

 and which is merged at M into some dark clouding posteriorly to the cell-spot; 

 cell-spot moderate ; median line from five-ninths costa, irregularly lunulate, not 

 shari)ly defined, oblique outwards to behind R', oblique inwards from R^ to middle 

 of hindmargiu, accompanied proximally (except from fold to hindmargiu) by dark 

 shading ; postmedian line obsolete anteriorly, except as an elongate spot along 

 costa ; developed from R', imrallel with termen to R', then more oblique, throughout 

 minutely dentate inwards on the veins, at hindmargiu accompanied distally by a 

 large dark spot ; termen between apex and R' with some dark shading nearly as in 

 //. abruptaria Thnb., bnt continued across the postmedian line so as to join the 

 shading behind cell-spot ; some weaker dark shading between R' and hindmargiu, 

 forming distal boundary to the obsolescent, lunulate whitish subterminal line ; 

 termen with somewhat triangular (posteriorly more elongate) fuscons spots between 



the veins : fringe dark-spotted opposite the veins. Hindwlng with termen 



waved, not toothed at SC-, crenulate between SC- and R^ then rather straight ; 

 median line continued, accompanied distally by a narrow dark shade, which reaches 

 the moderate cell-spot ; postmedian from costa near apex nearly straight (very 

 slightly sinuous) to beyond two-thirds inner margin ; subterminal broad but very 

 ill-defined, followed distally by a slightly carved dark line from termen near SC- to 



inner margin close to tornus, and this again by a dark terminal shade. Underside 



with the markings reproduced, not very sharply defined. 



Ganyoro, Ivory Coast, May 2-7, 1903 (Pemberton). Type in coll. Rothschild. 

 Also in coll. Rothschild a S from Bitye, Ja River, Cameroons, 2000 ft., September — 

 November 1911, more uniformly greyish, forewing with the postmedian line double 

 and the subterminal rather better expressed by dark edgings. Not Inconceivably a 

 S form of penumbrata Warr. {Nov. Zool. xii. 395), notwithstanding the extra- 

 ordinarily different shape, shorter stalking of SC'-^ etc. 



102. Nychiodes tyttha sj). nov. 



<?, 23 mm.; ?, 28 mm. Antennal pectinations in both sexes relatively 

 somewhat longer than in the type species. Head and body concolorous with wings, 

 face a little more infuscated, abdomen slightly dark-belted at the ends of the 

 segments. 



Forewing with termen entire ; SC'~- coincident, sometimes (the ? paratype) 



