NOVITATBS ZOOLOGICAE XXII. 1915. 369 



cilia ; ? serrate. Thorax pale ochreoas, mixed with bright oohreous and with a 

 few dark grey dots above. Fore and middle legs mostly infuscated, hiudfemnr and 

 tibia ocbreons, hindtarsus fuscous-spotted ; hindtibia iu <$ strongly dilated, with 

 hair-pencil, spurs very short. Abdomen pale ochreous, with a narrow blackish belt 

 above at the end of each segment, a few of them slightly continued ventrally ; anal 

 tuft well develoi)ed, bright ochreous. 



Foreiving elongate, costa gently curved ; Sf !'"^ stalked to about opposite origin 

 of 8C^; dirty white, with a slight yellowish tinge, nnevenly marked throughout 

 with olive-fuscous dots, mostly rather coarse, here and there somewhat confluent; 



a cell-spot of the same colour. Ilindwing rounded ; similar, but with the dots 



rather sparser except in distal region ; one of the dots occupies middle of DC. 



Underside the same. 



Uesha, S. Nigeria (Capt. Humfrey), 3 <? cj, 1 ? in coll. Rothschild. 



Similar to the preceding except in structure, more rounded wings and whiter 

 colour. Like most of the African genera of Geometrinae, Tthodophthitus is in need 

 of revision. The only species with similar antennal structure which has been 

 referred to it is tricoloraria Mab. {Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1890, p. ^0)=imperialis 

 Bastelb. (Intern. Ent. Zeit. i. 109), a large, handsome, broad-winged species with 

 slightly different venation. These two species have less hairy clothing than castas 

 Warr., etc., which I refer to Nothabraxas. 



112. Callioratis apicisecta sp. nov. 



c?, 70 mm. Face ochraceons rufous, becoming paler below. Crown and 

 antenna black. Thorax and abdomen oehraceous rufous, a narrow black baud down 

 middle of thorax, extending on to base of abdomen. Legs black, the coxae, femora 

 and tibiae whitened on outer side. 



Forewing ochraceons rufons, becoming redder at hindmargin and paler towards 

 costal margin and apex ; markings black ; a small patch at base ; a narrow, 

 oblique, tapering fascia from one-fonrth costa (here 3 mm. wide) to across fold, its 

 distal edge touching the origin of M^ ; a spot on SM- as continuation of this fascia ; 

 a broader but shorter fascia (also tapering) from midcosta, along DC-~^, to just across 

 DC' ; a third fascia before three-fourths, slightly curved, 4 mm. wide at costa, 

 tapering little, furcate on R', one branch very short, ending on R^ near termeu, the 

 other longer, confluent with the black border at M' and again at M-, tapering to a 

 point behind fold ; a small black apical patch, continuous as a very narrow distal 

 border, succeeded at tornus by a black spot on SM- (anteriorly pointed) ; fringe 



black. Hindwing concolorons, with slightly deeper discal spot, narrow black 



border (a little wider at apex) and a narrow black band from nearly three-fourths 

 costa to mid-termen, thickening where it joins the distal border. 



Underside the same. 



Kojokaji, Lado Enclave, May 6, 1912. Type iu coll. Rothschild. 



All the black parts are tinged or shot with glossy deep blue. 



113. Mimaletis reducta sp. nov. 



3 ? , 34-40 mm. Very similar to Immilis Warr. {Nov. Zool. i. 378), differing 

 as follows : 



Antennal pectinations shorter iu the ? . Smaller, but with the wings relatively 

 a trifle broader ; less bright reddish, the black border of forewing broader at costa, 

 its edge being more oblique ; no white at apex ; first white spot relatively shorter, 



