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NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 1916. 



Foreioing rather broad, with costa slightly and terraen moderately curved ; 

 bone-colour, with a very few scattered black scales (somewhat more copious towards 

 costa) ; first Hue almost obsolete ; median shade very feeble, oblique outwards from 

 middle of hindmargin, finer and parallel with postmedian in anterior half; post- 

 median fine, olive-grey, weak and broken into spots, becoming rufous and distinct 

 posteriorly to fold; some slight rufous shading between these lines posteriorly, 

 producing the effect of a subtoriial spot ; some slight olive-grey terminal shading ; 

 terminal dots small, black, in posterior half less well developed ; fringe long, 



in proximal half slightly more ochreous, at tornus rafesceut. Hindtving with 



termen scarcely bent at W ; lines of forewing continued, not rufous posteriorly ; 

 terminal dots present; fringe ochreous proximally. 



Forewing beneath somewhat smoky from base to median shade, a darker 

 antemedian line faintly indicated; a dark discal dot; postmedian line darker than 

 above, followed distally by a weaker parallel line ; terminal area clear, the termen 

 itself with the dots almost connected into a dark line, Hindwing beneath 

 unmarked, except for the terminal dots. 



Bitye, Ja River, Cameroous. Type in coll. L. B. Prout. 



42. Acidalia subpectinata sp. nov. 



cJ,29mm. Face blackish. Palpus blackish, in part pale beneath. Vertex 

 and antenna pale fleshy ; antenna with fascicles of long cilia, arising (except on 

 first few segments and "in distal part) from rudimentary pectinations, the longest 

 of which do not quite equal the diameter of the shaft. Collar darker. Thorax 

 fleshy. Hindtibia dilated, spurless, with hair-pencil, tarsus about as long as tibia. 

 Abdomen fleshy, with large fuscous dorsal spots. 



Forewing flesh-colour, in places paler in middle of wing ; lines more ochreous, 

 ill-defined ; antemedian from hindmargin before one-fifth, losing itself towards SU ; 

 median double (1 mm. apart), parallel, oblique, waved, slightly sinuate inwards 

 about IP, the proximal reaching hindmargin at middle, both obsolete at costa; a 

 small black discal dot ; postmedian fine, at 2-3 mm. from termen, incurved at 

 radials and more slightly at fold, marked with blackish daslies in the radial 

 cellules and with minute dots in most of the others ; subterminal line indicated 

 by very feeble shading proximally and distally ; termen with small interueural 



blackish dots. Hinduing with termen bent at R' ; antemedian line w.inting ; 



the two median lines somewhat darkened, especially the proximal ; a large black 

 cell-dot interrupting the distal ; postmedian with the radial dashes smaller ; sub- 

 terminal and terminal as on forewing. 



Forewing beneath with the lines (except the postmedian) weaker, the first 

 obsolete ; discal dot present, terminals nearly obsolete, a feeble olivaceous terminal 

 line, interrnpted at the veins. Hindwing beneath paler, the discal dot and post- 

 median line well developed, a terminal line as on forewing. 



Uganda, probably Entebbe district (Jackson). Type in coll. Rothschild. 



43. Acidalia megalostigma sp. nov. 



?, 20 mm. Face and palpus black. Vertex and base of antenna bright 

 golden ochreous. Thorax paler ochreous. Abdomen coucolorons with wings. 



Forewing rather broad ; whitish ochreous, inclining to yellowish, with slight 

 darker admixture and faint traces of a sinuous ochreous postmedian line ; discal 



