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Ilitidwings : with a black mark at base ; a lilackisli autemediau line and waved 

 postmedian and submargiual lines, the last with a blackish blotch on costa. 



Underside whitish, shining ; the forewings slightly smoky-tinged and finely 

 freckled with darker, with black cell-spot and snbapical costal blotch ; hindwings 

 whiter, with smaller cell-spot and ronudisli black apical blotch ; head, thorax, and 

 abdomen grey, the latter dark at base. 



Expanse of wings : (?, 34 mm. ; S , 32 mm. 



A pair from Warri, River Niger, February 1896 (Dr. Roth). 



222. Ectropis sabnlosa sp. nov. 



Forewimja : pale whitish ochreous, dusted with yellowish ochreous and grey 

 scales, especially along the costal region and beyond the outer line ; the usual Hues 

 very distinct, except the exterior denticulated line ; the blotch beyond it at middle 

 dark ochreous ; fringe whitish ochreons, witli a row of rather large black marginal 

 spots at base. 



Hindwings : with less suffusion. 



Underside the same, without markings : the costal half of forewings darker. 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous. 



Expanse of wings : 38 mm. 



One J from Amboina, February 1892 (W. Doherty). 



Paler and smoother, not so yellow, as bhurmitra Wlk. 



223. Lepiodes ocellata sp. nov. 



cJ. Forewings : grey, smoothly and rather thinly scaled ; first line blackish, at 

 one-third, angled or curved beneath costa, then ol)li(|ucly bent inwards to base of 

 inner margin ; outer line at two-thirds, oblique outwards to lower radial, then 

 inwards to inner margin in middle, with a sinus inwards between first median and 

 submediau veins ; a diffuse dark denticulate submarginal line, often very obscure ; 

 apex generally darker ; cell-spot round, dark-edged, with raised grey scales in the 

 centre ; in some examples a very faint central line is traceable ; fringe ])aler, with 

 dark basal line. 



Hindwings : with three transverse lines, the cell-sjiot touching the central one. 

 In the ? the lines are more curved, less abruptly bent. The first line is generally 

 preceded, and the second followed, by a diffuse dark shade. 



Underside pale whitish, with the veins thickly marked with orange scales and 

 in the ? freckled with blackish scales; the cell-s])ots large, velvety black; the 

 forewings with an apical black blotch, the hindwings witli a submarginal curved 

 blackish fascia, often limited to the apex only. Palju ferruginous, mixed with 

 fuscous ; face, vertex, thorax, and abdomen whitish or greyish. 



Expanse of wings : 24—20 mm. 



Five d" S from Mpeta, Loangwa Uivx^r, an attluent of the Zambesj, November 

 and December 1895 (Coryudon) ; one ? from Bathurst, S. Africa. 



As stated above, the lines in this ? are curved, not angled or bent, as in the 

 S 6 : the forewings beneath have a marginal black fascia throughout, the fascia of 

 the hindwings being also marginal. When more cxami)lc8 arc obtaiimblc fur 

 comparison, the Bathurst insect will probably be found to be a constant local form. 



