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strongly expressed transverse band from apex to toriins, broadest at apex, the area 

 distally to this band again becoming pale, especially at the veins. 



Both wings beneath with the dark band and termen more nearly as on hind- 

 wing above, the enlarged subapical ])atch of the forewing conspicnons ; the white 

 ray and veins of the hindwing about as in procidata procidata and ab. iurhalfiitata 

 Gaen. ; discal marks strong, generally elongate. 



Eritrea : Asmara, 1 c?, 2 ? ¥, October 17-18, 1005 (N. Beccari). Type in coll. 

 Rothschild. 



Although Gnende founded this species on a number of examples from 

 " Abyssinia," it is quite certain that his form was not the same as this ; procidata 

 is a very variable species, and individual aberrations sometimes nearly ap])roach 

 the Eritrean race, bnt it is so extreme and so constant as to merit a separate name. 



79. Osteodes warreni nom. nov. 



Osteodes exumbrata Warr., Not-. Zool. ix. 529 (1902) (nee Walk.) 



Mr. Warren {he. cit.) carefully differentiated this species (from the Kiknyu 

 Escarpment) from procidata Guen. and turbulentata Gnen., bnt misidentified it 

 as exumbrata Walk. {List Lep. Ins. xxvi. 1860), which was described from Cape 

 Town and is certainly — according to the type at the British Museum — a very worn 

 example of the ordinary South African Osteodes, which I regard, until I can get 

 access to Abyssinian material farther elucidating Gnen^e's, as procidata turbulentata 

 Guen. (subsp.). warreni has the palpus rather longer and less stoutly scaled than 

 in the allied forms, the ground-colour above more pallid (less tinged with ochreons), 

 the band of the underside quite differently formed from that oi procidata eritrecnsis, 

 on the forewing slightly curved inwards at costa, on the hindwing placed proximally 

 to the apex and toruus and distinctly outbeut or, angled at the radical fold. It also 

 differs from all other forms of Osteodes known to me in the markingless hindwing 

 above; but this is said to be found in Guenee's procidata, so that it is just possible 

 toarreni will prove to be a subspecies of procidata and turbulentata a separate species, 

 with eritreensis as subsj)ecies. 



80. Macaria albivia sp. nov. 



<?, 37 mm. Face and palpus brown, mixed with deep fuscous, especially on 

 the upper part of the face and outer side of palpus ; frontal tuft developed ; palpus 

 about one and a half times as long as diameter of eye. Antennal ciliation not very 

 dense, scarcely a3 long as diameter of shaft. Head, body and legs brown, more or 

 less mixed with fuscous, especially on the crown and the dorsal surface ; hindtibia 

 moderately strongly dilated, the hairs of the pencil partly brown, partly deep 

 fuscous. 



Forewing with termen not appreciably sinuate, less bowed than in elvirata 

 Guen. ; SC arising from C, not touching SO- ; fovea developed ; dull white or 

 brown-whitish, densely irrorated (except iu band between median shade and post- 

 median) with dark fuscous, the distal area purplish fuscous, much more sparsely 

 and hnely irrorated ; costal edge more yellowish, fuscous spotted; antemedian line 

 deep fuscous (sometimes indistinct), oblique outwards from one-fifth costa, acutely 

 bent in cell, then slightly sinuous to one-fifth or one-fourth hindmargin ; median 

 shade broad, somewhat diffuse, formed of conglomerated fuscous irroratioii ; the 

 whitish band beyond containing some patches of fuscous irroration ; cell-mark 



