354 



NOVITATF.g ZOOLOQICAE XXIf. 1915 



cliimling ; forewing with a small pale subapical spot',; hiiiilwing partly pale at 

 termeii, pspeoially botwceii W anil iM'. 



Mlaiijc, Nvassalaiid, Jfarcli — Ajiril 1913 (S. A. Neave), in coll. Ri)tliseliild et 

 (.oil. Brit. Jfiis. Type in coll. Rothschild, March 15. 



Examjiles with the jmstmedian line obsolete ])resent altogether a very blnrred 

 and indefinite appearance. 



87. Boarmia cyrtogramma sp. nov. 



<?, 43 mm. Face lijrht brown, mixed with dark fnscons. Palpus rather long, 

 mostly dark fnscons. Vertex and antennal shaft light lirown, irrorated witli 

 fnscons ; pectinations long. Thorax concolorons with forewing, abdomen with 

 bindwing, a narrow pale ochreons belt at base of abdomen. Hindtiliia dilated, 

 with bair-pencil. 



Fort-niiig moderately broad, termen almost smootli, faintly sinnona ; SC'~'' 

 coincident, free ; fovea well developed ; pale oclireous brown, with sparse fnscons 

 irroration, posteriorly rather deeper ochreons ; costal edge marked in places with 

 fnscons, especially proximally; a pnrplish fnscons antemedian line from hindmargin 

 jnst beyond the fovea, strongly oblii|ne ontwards to 8C, then bending to reach costa 

 at one-third, also with a slight projection in front of SM^ ; the beginning of a 

 very obliqne median line at two-sevenths hindmargin; a moderate discal dot; 

 postmedian dark fnscons, rather fine, from costa 3 ram. before apex, very strongly 

 cnrved, so as to rnn prnximad from R' to the base of R' and along DC''', then less 

 clearly defined, nearly vertical to SM- and curving ontwards to nearly two-thirds 

 hindmargin ; almost the entire area distally to this line pnrple-fuscons of varying 

 intensity, somewhat dusted with ferruginons, especially on the veins and as a 

 proximal suffusion between the radials ; only the apex (obliquely edged posteriorly) 

 and an oval spot from before R' to behind M' remaining of the ground-colour; a 

 •iubapical fnscons spot in the pale apical patch ; slight indications of an interrupted 



whitish snbterminal line. Ilindwing with termen scarcely at all crennlate, only 



a little more noticeably so between the radials ; purplish fnscons, at the extreme 

 biise concolorons with forewing, this shade bounded by a straight snbbasal line in 

 continuation of the median of forewing ; discal dot present ; some ferruginous 

 dnsting on veins (except C), between discal dot and postmedian line and to some 

 extent towards inner margin ; postmedian line from nearly three-fourths costa, 

 deeply incurved between C and SC-, slightly so between SC- and R', then obsolete 

 except as dots on the veins; slight indications of a whitish, interrupted snbterminal 

 line, accompanied proximally by some faint dark internenral spots. 



Under-surface with the markings similar but more blurred ; forewing posteriorly 

 with more fuscous suffusion ; hindwing with less fuscous suffusion except towards 

 termen, thus concolorons with forewing above. 



Bitye, Ja River, Cameroons, 2000 ft., January — March 1907, dry (G. L. Bates). 

 Type in coll. Rothschild. 



Evidently related to the species described by Warren as Ili/posidrn smithi 

 {Nov. Zool. xi. 480), but with different subcostal venation, smoother termen, much 

 more cnrved postmedian line, more variegated colouring, etc. Generic position 

 doubtful, as the scaling is scarcely so hairy as in true Boarmia and the aspect 

 diflerent ; in any case no Hypomlni. Perhaps a new genus in the (ieoii/ces — 

 Miantochora group. 



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