NOVITATES ZOOLOaiCAE XXII. 1915. 313 



4. Comibaena rhodolopha sp. nov. 



?, 34 mm. Face green. Palpus long (over two-and-a-half times diameter of 

 eye), white, strongly spotted with crimson. Antenna serrate, the shaft white, 

 dotted with crimson. Thorax green above, white beneath. Legs white, femora with 

 pnrple-brown spots, foretibia dotted with red, its tuft red. Abdomen red ahove, 

 spotted with green on first segments, white beneath; white dorsal spots on first to 

 fourth abdominal segments. Wings rather bright green, but more irrorated with 

 whitish than in esmcra.kia Warr. (iVoi'. Zool. v. 1.5). 



Vorewing with SC free, SC^ arising a little before SC', R' scarcely stalked, 

 UC gently curved, W scarcely before middle, M' almost connate with R' ; costal 

 margin white, at apex crimson for about 1 mm. : no lines ; discal dot larire, 

 crimson, with some blackish scales in the middle; terminal line thick, crimson, 

 interrupted by white dots, at vein-ends and very finely and interruptedly white-edged 



on extreme termen ; fringe white, mixed with crimson (defective). Flindiring 



similar, except costa, the cell-mark vagnely prolonged nearly to anterior end of D( 1'. 



Underside similar but paler. 



Selnkwe, IS. Rhodesia, March V.)VZ (F. W. Short). Type in coll. L. B. Front. 



Near esmeralda Warr., abdomen with white spots, forefcibial tuft red (in 

 csmcralda fuscous), green ground-colour less smooth, discal spots larger. Can 

 scarcely be a remarkable form of the variable leucospilota Walk., with the lines 

 entirely obsolete, etc. 



5. Metaciueta semialbifrons sp. nov. 



(J, 25 mm. Face red in upjier half, white in lower. Palpus red above, white 

 beneath. Vertex white ; occiput green. Thorax above green. Abdomen on 

 segments 2-6 each with a slightly raised white dorsal spot, partly surrounded with 

 red, on segment 1, with a small posterior red mark, edged with black on each side, 

 on segments 7-8 each with a very small red spot. 



Forewiiig with termen slightly less convex than in the other species; bright 

 green, with tlie usual whitish strigulation ; a moderate red discal dot ; a red terminal 

 line, swelling slightly between the veins and here with minute, inconspicuon.s 



whitish dots ; fringe pinkish white, with red spots opposite the veins. Hindwing 



with termen scarcely at all bent at R' ; like fore wing. 



Both wings beneatli whitish green, without markings ; slight suggestions of 

 the terminal line and fringe-spots of upperside. 



French Congo : Fort Crampel. Type in coll. L. B. Prout. 



Nearest ternicoma Prout, but smaller, more strongly strigulated, etc., and 

 especially distinguished by the particoloured face. 



6. Cheroscelis palliata (Warr.) 



Rhomborlsta palliata Warr., Nov. Zool. v. 16 (1898); viii. 200 (1901). 

 Ehomborista ustipeimis Warr., Noe. Zool. v. 230 (1898). 



Warren's type of palliata is a cj, not " ? " as published, and the variation is 

 neither sexual nor (apparently) seasonal ; both colour-forms occur also in the ? and 

 either with restricted or extended inner-marginal patch on hindwing. Of 3 ¥ ? 

 from Degama (Niger) in coll. Rothschild, one (dated May 7, 1902) is of the palliata 

 form, the other two (February' 3 and April 29) of the ab, ustipennis. 



