258 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917. 



91. Tumaca lanuginosa spec. nov. 



(J. Very woolly ; anal tuft large. Antennae brown, shaft whitish ; head 

 and thorax huffish grey washed with cinnamon ; abdomen pinkish cinnamon, 

 anal tuft whitish. 



Forewing pale pinkish cinnamon washed with grey with a number of cloud- 

 marks and freckled with rufous cinnamon ; a postdiscal lino of indLstmct darker 

 dots. Hmdwing rufous cinnamon. 



Length of forewing : 21-22 mm. Expanse : 47-50 mm. 



Habitat. Luebo, Kasai River (P. Landbeck), 1 ,S type ; Akassa to Onitsha, 

 River Niger (Dr. Cook), 1 <J. 



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92. Tumaca nigripuncta spec. nov. 



<J. Antennae rufous brown ; head and thorax grizzled isabel-grey ; abdomen 

 isabel-grey, anal tuft grizzled. 



Forewmg greyish Isabel ; costa and disc with numerous black-brown dots, 

 a black line from "base to termen along median fold, two curved postdiscal lines 

 of black-brown dots. Hindwing white. 



Length of forewing : 17-21 mm. Expanse : 38-48 mm. 



Habitat. Takwa, Gold Coast (R. E. James), 3 c?(J, 



93. Baradesa omissa spec. nov. 



(J ?. Very similar to lithosioides Moore, but smaller and duller ; has hitherto 

 been confused with lithosioides. 



Differs in being duller above ; on forewmg the discal black dots except a 

 single postmedian line are absent, stigma more clLstinct ; hindwing has brown 

 outer portion much narrower ; the dark apex of abdomen does not reach so 

 far up the abdomen. Below the nervures are dark not yellow. 



Length of Forewing. Expanse. 



lithosioides, S 44-49 mm., $ 53 mm. . . S 97-107 mm., $ 115 mm. 



omissa, S 38-41 mm., ? 45 mm. . . . S 84-90 mm., ? 98 mm. 



Habitat. Khasia Hills, Assam (Nat. coll.), 7 ,J(J, 1 ? (type S) ; Mount 

 Tahan, Malay Peninsula (J. Waterstradt), 1 3 ; Gunong Ijau, Malay Penin- 

 sula, 1 (J. (Compared with 11 JcJ, 3 9$of lithosioides from Buxa Bhutan, Sikkim, 

 and Khasia HUls.) 



94o. Euhampsonia niveiceps occidentalis subsp. nov. 



(J. Differs from n. niveiceps in being much paler, and in the markings on 

 the forewings being almost obsolete. 



Habitat. North-west Himalayas; Kumaon, July 1893 (J. G. Pilcher), 1 i 

 type; Kulu, 1 J; Dalhousie, July 1891, 1 S- 



95. Euhampsonia magnifica spec. nov. 



$. Antennae very large and heavily pectinated, amber-brown ; head and 

 thorax scarlet, a sooty patch at base and one at edge of tegulae, hindermost 

 part of thorax deeper red ; abdomen scarlet, last three segments vinaceous 

 red-brown. 



