492 ^^o^^TATES Zoolooicae XXIV. 1917. 



Forewing thinly scaled but very hairy, purpli.sh cinnamon-chocolate ; a 

 postmedian whitish-pink transverse band. Hind^^■ing paler. 



Length of forewing : 38 mm. Expanse : 85 mm. 



Habitat. Moyamba, Sierra Leone (D. Caton), 1 $. A second ? is in the 

 British Museum. 



68. Phasicnecus peropalinus, sp. nov. 



$. Antennae brown ; head, thorax, and abdomen pale buff-grey. Wings 

 yellowish vitreous strongly opalescent with numerous indistinct crenulate and 

 sinuate transverse darker markings, these latter being almost absent in basal 

 three-fifths of wings. 



Length of forewing : 25 mm. Expanse : 54 mm. 



Habitat. Bitje, Ja River, Camaroons, 2,000 ft., January — February 1907 

 (G. L. Bates), 1 ?. 



69. Phasicnecus nivalis, sp. nov. 



o. Antennae grey-brown ; frons sooty black, rest of head, thorax, and 

 abdomen snow-white. Wings snow-white, very hairy ; an antemedian band, 

 a basal band, a postmedian band, and a band of coalescent rings greenish grey. 



Length of forewing : 27 mm. Expanse : 61 mm. 



Habitat. Bingerville, Ivory Coast, June 1915 (G. Melou), 1 S Type; Moy- 

 amba, Sierra Leone (D. Cator), 2 (J (J. 



70. Viana magnifica, sji. nov. 



?. Antennae black ; head and thorax purplish brown. 



Forewing thinly scaled purplish chocolate ; a whitish streak on discocellulars, 

 a darker postmedian line inside of which are varying clouded areas of whitish 

 scales. Hind\\ing orange-rufous, outer one-third purplish chocolate. 



Length of forewing : .30 mm. Exjjanse : 67 mm. 



Habitat. Lagos. West Africa. 



71. Acrojana splendida. sp. nov. 



$. Antennae brown, shaft rnauve-grey ; head and thorax purplish mauve- 

 grey ; abdomen paler. 



Forewing apple-green ; an oblique postmedian band, costal region, a large 

 quadrate patch in and beyond cell, a series of markings in basal one-fifth of 

 wing, and patches and cloudings in apical and outer one-third of wing purplish 



mauve-grey ; a round chocolate subbasal patch on costa. Hindwiiig costal 



one-third bright carmine-rose, rest of wing apple-green with lines and cloud 

 patches of purplish maroon-grey. 



Length of forewing : 61 mm. Expanse : 133 mm. 



Habitat. Wassaw district, 45 miles inland from Sekondi, Gold Coast, 1 ?. 



