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ochreous anteriorly, the snbmargiual spot rather whiter than the rest, very slight 

 dark snffnsion about the radials ; terminal line weak, brownish, not black, on hind- 

 wing obsolete. 



Ilesha, S. Nigeria (Capt. Hnmfrey). Type in coll. Rothschild. 



No doubt near dimscu-ia Walk. {List Lep. Ins. sxi. 366), but the very 

 differently shaped wings, non-stalking of SC and SC- of forewing, much less 

 oblique first line, black discal mark and rnfous costal shades are distinctive. The 

 two should perhaps form a new genus, on account of the hairy tibiae, short palpus, 

 etc., which suggest some affinity with the Biston group ; similar tibiae are found in 

 Miantochora gumppenbergi Moschl., but are very exceptional in the Geometridae. 



97. Cleora proximaria albescens snbsp. nov. 



Considerably whiter than name-typical proximaria Walk. {fJst Lep. Ins. xxi. 

 365), from S. Africa, lacking the grey cloudings which give to the latter its 

 characteristic aspect. On an average smaller. 



British East Africa, only a few examples seen, but these constant. Mga,na, 

 September 4, 1896 (tyiie) ; Mombasa, October 1906 (Dr. Ansorge) ; in coll. 

 Rothschild. 



98. Cleora indigna sp. nov. 



(?, 26 mm. Face broad, scarcely rough-scaled, grey, tinged with ochreous and 

 dotted with fuscous. Palpus very short and slender. Tongue developed. Antenna 

 pectinate with moderate branches. Head, body and legs concolorous with wings. 

 Hiudtibiae not dilated. 



Wings shaped nearly as in Ectropis delosaria AValk. {List Lep. Ins. xxvi. 

 1541) = crassa Warr. {Nov. Zool. vi. 305), only with the termen of forewing 



slightly more oblique. Forewing with fovea well developed ; SC'~^ very shortly 



stalked; dirty whitish, tinged (especially about the veins and margins) with 

 ochreous brown and rather strongly (though not quite evenly) irrorated with 

 fuscous ; basal area somewhat clouded with fuscous ; lines blackish ; antemedian 

 from before one-third costa, curved and strongly oblique, rather thick, reaching 

 hindmargin near base ; jwstmedian slender, creunlate, strongest at the vein-teeth, 

 recalling that of Ectropis delosaria but vertical from costa, curved about the 

 radials and with the proximal curve behind M^ very shallow ; discal mark long and 

 thick, a vagae dark median shade bending closely round it distally and then 

 running from its posterior extremity to hindmargin, parallel with postmedian line ; 

 snbterminal almost obsolete, its position indicated by a slight brownish shade 



proximally ; terminal line thickened between the veins. Hindwing similar, 



without first line, cell-mark smaller, the median shade touching its proximal side. 



Under-surface paler, costal edge of forewing somewhat ochreous, dark-strign- 

 lated ; markings weak, almost confined to cell-mark and [-.ostmedian ; both wings 

 witli rather stronger dark dusting proximally to the postmedian than distally. 



Cambo Caquenje, Bih6, Angola, November 3, 1904 (Dr. Ansorge). Type in 

 coll. Rothschild. 



99. Hemerophila dnophera sp. nov. 

 (J, 34 mm. Rather larger than //. uborta Warr. {Noc. Zool. v. 247), from 

 Uganda, palpus longer (about IJ), antennal pectinations slightly shorter (barely 

 four times as long as diameter of shaft) ; very much darker, the warm brown 



