3S4 NOVITATES ZooLOlilCAE XXII. 1915. 



lii'iiwii ; aiitciiiediaii ratlier tliick Imt not distinct, arisins; at one-third costa, bont 

 outward at JI, then vertical to liiudmarj^^in at fnlly two-tif'ths ; tlie pale median area 

 consc(|ueutly narrow in its posterior half; discal dot ver}' small ; postmedian line 

 from costa 3 mm. before apex, acutely angled behind SC!'^, then oblique inwards, 

 more strongly incurved from R^ to SM-; a bright rust-brown shade distally to this 

 line in its posterior part, reaching nearly to tornus at hindmargin, but narrowing 

 almost to a point about R- (here ill-defined), and with a very shallow distal 



excavation between the medians ; fringe coiicolorons. Hindiciiig with termen 



very feebly crennlate, the tooth at R' scarcely appreciably stronger than the 

 others ; proximal area concolorous with median area of forewing or very slightly 

 more irrorated (whiter costally) ; a minute discal dot ; postmedian line about as 

 in Epi(jijnopterij.c Jiamdlimria; distaLarea strongly irrorated with pinkish brown, 

 the rnst-brown shade slight and narrow. 



Under-surface similarly bnt rather more weakly marked, the pale areas more 

 irrorated, the discal dots more sharply black. 



Bladagascar ; Antananarivo (coll. C'huUiat), type in coll. L. B. I'rout, received 

 through Le Moult; Ambinauindrano, 5iJ km. W. of Mahanoro, October 1011 

 (G. K. Kestell-Cornish), a slightly worn, less variegated example in coll. Rothschild 

 (dark shade distally to postmedian almost obsolete). 



Acrostatheusis gen. nov. 



Face with appressed scales. Palpus rather short, shortly rough-scaled, third 

 joint small bnt distinct. Antenna in t? bipectinate with rather long branches. 

 Pectus strongly hairy. Femora hairy. Hindtibia in S scarcely dilated, all spurs 

 developed. Forewing broad, costa arched, apex snbfalcate (especially in ? ), termen 

 smooth, nearly straight, tornus squared ; SC out of G, well free from 80", SO- from 

 cell, sometimes connected with SC^^*, M' separate from Rl Hindwing ample, 

 apex fairly prominent, termen bent or angled at R^, almost straight before and 

 behind, tornus pronounced ; cell less than oac-half, D(^ curved, becoming strongly 

 oblique ; V. normal, SG- separate from R', R- wanting, 31' separate from W'. 



Type of the genus : Acrostathemis apicitincta sp. nov. 



Here belongs also " Aeschropter;/x " atomaria Warr. {Nov. Zool. viii. 216). 



141. Acrostatheusis apicitincta sp. nov. 



c?, 54-56 mm. Face red-brown. Palpus red-brown, paler beneath. Antenna 

 red-brown, the shaft whitish oclireous j'roximally. Vertex whitish ochrcous. 

 Thorax and abdomen concolorous with wings. 



Forewinq very pale ochreons, without dark irroration, only in the distal area with 

 indistinct ochreous or brownish strigulae ; first line faint (sometimes obsolete), bent 

 outward in cell and sharply angled outward at fold ; discal dot minnte ; postmedian 

 line brown, from hindmargin at nearly three-fiftlis, oblique and slightly curved 

 (or nearly straight) to SC° near termen, here acutely bent, running inwards to a 

 red-brown costal spot 5-fi mm. from apex ; a rather less sharply defined brown line 

 distally to the i)Ostmedian, at 1 mm. distance, disappearing at SG% the space 

 between postmedian line and apex being here almost entirely suffused with 

 red-brown, with a slight admixture of blackish scales ; fringe browned in anterior 



half. Hindwing with the double postmedian line continued, except at costal 



margin, its proximal element crossing the base of SC" and R' and cutting the 



