NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXIV. 1917. 435 



several lines sometimes on hindwing ; both wings with distinct cell-dot (that 

 of forewing sometimes less elongate than above) and indications of pale sub- 

 tornal spot ; termen and fringes nearly as above. 



Transvaal (A. J. Cholmley), 2 cJcJ, 1 ? (including type <?) in coll. Brit. Mus., 

 Durban, September 1902 (G. F. Leigh), a cJ, somewhat damaged by grease, in 

 the same collection. 



An obscurely marked species, though less so than lugubriaria Swinh. {Tr. 

 Ent. Soc. Land. 1904, p. 573), with which it has much in common. 



SuBFAM. GEOMETRINAE. 



15. Mauna electa spec. nov. 



(J, 30-32 mm. Head and palpus red. Antenna nearly simple, shghtly 

 thickened. Thorax above red, mixed with purphsh ; beneath mostly pale, 

 reddish in front. Abdomen whiti.sh ochreous, tinged with red on venter and 

 more strongly (though narrowly) on first few segments above. Legs whitish 

 ochreous, the fore and middle pairs red on inner side, the forecoxa strongly red 

 in front, hindtibia irrorated with red. 



Wings shaped nearly as in ardescens Prout (Ann. Transv. Mus. v. 170. t. 

 25. f. 29), termen sUghtlj' more convex. 



Forewing with SC connected by bar with SC'-' ; orange-red, suffused nearly 

 throughout (except along hindmargin) with purple, darkest in proximal area ; 

 lines blackish purple, very oblique, rather approximated, the antemedian 

 obsolete anteriorly, feeble throughout, chiefly traceable as boundary of dark 

 proximal shade ; postmedian from close to apex to just beyond middle of hind- 

 margin, slightly excurved. Hindwing whitish ochreous, shading into reddish 



ochreous distally. 



Both wings beneath whitish, costal edge of forewng bright ochreous, of 

 hindwing (more broadly) roseate ; both wings with distal margin roseate, broadly 

 at apex, narrowing off posteriorly ; this distal shading deeper on forewing than 

 on hindwing. 



Nyassaland : Mlanje Mountain, March 25,1913, type; July 5, 1913, para- 

 type (S. A. Neave). Both in coll. Brit. Mus. 



16. Cleora proemia spec. nov. 



S, 32 mm. Face and palpus dark reddish brown ; palpus about one-and- 

 a-half times diameter of eye. Vertex and antennal shaft light wood-brown ; 

 pectinations long, only the few apical very abrujJtly shortened. Thorax and 

 abdomen light wood-brown, with darker irroration ; second abdcminal teigite 

 blackish brown, with a very small paler spot in the centre ; succeeding tergites 

 each with a small dark anterior spot. Legs partly infuscated ; hindtibia not 

 dilated. 



Forewing with termen smooth, curved, becoming strongly oblique ; fovea 

 well developed ; SC moderately or rather long stalked ; hght wood-brown, 

 with fine darkened irroration ; costal edge dark -spotted, in particular with 

 three narrow, relatively long marks (the longest 1 mm.) at the origin cf the 

 Lines ; first at 4 or 5 mm. from base, the hne itself only indicated by two small 

 longitudinal (but rather oblique) dark dashes, just in front of M and SM' respec- 

 tively, the former as far from base as the costal mark, the latter twice as near 



