NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 489 



55. Haplojana insignifica, sp. nov. 



?. Antennae shaft white, pectinations brown-grey ; head sooty brown- 

 grey ; thorax and abdomen yellowish olive-grey. 



Forewing yellowish olive-grey ; a dark-grey stigma, a dark-grey somewhat 

 oblique postmedian band, followed by an area containing irregular though indis- 

 tinct dark-grey lines and patches and huffish spots ; a termino-subterminal 

 blotch-like band between apex and vein 2, very narrow at apex, widening rapidly 

 to veins 6 and 5, and then gradually becoming fainter and narrower down to 

 vein 2. -Hindwing yellowish olive-grey, a median dark-grey band. 



Length of forewing : 48 mm. Exjianse : 105 mm. 



Habitat. Yakusu, Upper Congo, April 1901 (Kenred Smith), 1 ?. 



5(i. Haplojana roseobrunnea, sp. nov. 



o. Antennae shaft buff, pectinations amber-brown : head and thorax 

 velvety blackish chocolate ; abdomen pmkish brown. 



Forewing costal area and basal one-fifth sooty brown with t\vo convexly 

 curved black transverse lines, next one-fifth of wing pink washed with sooty 

 brown and with black stigma ; outer three-fifths sooty brown tinged with pink, 

 two postmedian dark-brown bands, the second double, the mwarcl portion being 



pink ; nervures in outer one-third black. Hindwing basal four-fifths sooty 



grey tinged with pink, two transverse somewhat faint bands ; outer one-fifth 

 pink washed somewhat with sooty grey. ? similar, but ground-colour entirely 

 sooty grey, no pink whatever, abdomen and fringes yellowish. 



Length of forewing : $ 45 mm., $ 50 mm. Expanse : 5 100 mm., $ 1 10 mm. 



Habitat. Uganda (Jackson), 1(J, 1$. 



57. Haplojana soricis, sp. nov. 



cJ$. Antennae shaft straw-yellow, pectinations amber-yellow ; head frons 

 velvety brown-grey, vertex golden buff ; thorax velvety seal-grey ; abdomen 

 yellowish brown-grey. 



Forewing very thickly scaled velvety seal-grey more or less tinged with 

 pure grey, outer one-third suffused with dark brown-grey ; two oppositely 

 oblique antemedian dark bands, a median and a postmedian dark band with a 



lighter one more or less coalescent. ^Hindwing basal three-fifths clear grey, 



outer two-fifths seal-grey, an antemedian darker shadow line ; termen of both 

 wings dull yellow. 



Length of forewing : <J 49 mm., $ 56 mm. Expanse : S 107 mm., $ 123 mm. 



Habitat. Moyamba, Sierra Leone (D. Cator), 1 ? Type ; Cape Coast Castle, 1 o . 



58. Haplojana abyssinica, sp. nov. 

 o. Similar to rhodoptera Gerst. but much smaller ; thorax and forewing 

 uniform mouse-grey, median band replaced by faint shadow line, hindwing 

 yellowish grey with shaggy huffish hair at base and on abdominal area. $ ground- 

 colour entirely mouse-grey. 



. Length of forewing,: rhodoptera J. 50 mm., '4^ 53 mm. 



-o) • . j> „ abyssinica d 39 mm,, ? 48 mm. 



Expanse: rlwdoptera, cJ.llO.mm., ? 116 mm., abyssinica, S 87 mm., ?,10Q 

 mm. 



Habitat. Harrar, Abyssinia (G. Kristens^n), 1 o, 3 ?^:. 



