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Expanse of wiugii : 52 mm. 



One ? from Salisbury, Mashonaland. 



In the forewings 10 and 1 1 are stalked from two-thirds ; in hindwings 6 and 7 

 are stalked. . Both tongue and palpi are much reduced in size ; the antennae are 

 subserrate, the tips of the joints acute. 



Subfamily ASCOTINAE. 



44. Alcis simulatrix sp. uov. 



Forcwimjs : grey-brown, speckled with black ; the costa shortly striated with 

 black ; the lines black ; the first from one-fourth of costa, strongly angled outwards 

 in cell, then curved inwards towards base of inner margin ; second from three-fourths 

 of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, strongly angled outwards on vein 5 ; 

 submarginal line indistinct, preceded by blackish lunnles below costa and beyond 

 cell ; hindmargiu crennlate, with a fine black line swollen into a spot between the 

 veins ; fringe concolorons ; no distinct cell-spot, but faint traces of a darker 

 median line. 



Hiiidwuujs : without first line ; the angle of the second blunter. 



Underside whitish testaceous, speckled with blackish ; cell-spots small ; outer 

 line on both wings marked by black dashes on veins. Face and "palpi brownish ; 

 head, thorax, and abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 35 mm. 



One cJ from Kampala, Uganda, February 1897 ; a second from Masindi, June 

 ISO 7 (Dr. Ansorge). 



45. Calicha brunnea sp. nov. 



Forewings : pale brownish grey, with darker dusting, the marginal border 

 beyond the submarginal line dark grey without any brown tinge ; first line curved, 

 close to base, from a dark costal spot ; second from three-fourths of costa, oblique 

 outwards to vein (i, then rectangularly bent and oblique to inner margin at two-thirds ; 

 cell-spot black ; the veins brownish ; marginal lunules black, distinct ; fringe grey 

 with brown base. 



Hindwings : with the outer line curved and with a bluntly angled projection 

 on vein ; a small black cell-dot, and traces of a dark median line. 



Underside greyish testaceous, speckled with darker ; the cell-spots larger ; 

 traces of dark outer lines, not corresponding to those of the upperside. Head, 

 thorax, and abdomen like wings ; face and palpi somewhat darker. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



One S from Kasoha, Unyoro, August 1897 (Dr. Ansorge). 



46. Ectropis crassa sp. uov. 



Fon'wings : greyish ochrcous, thickly irrorated with dark fuscous and towards 

 the base suffused with smoky fuscous ; the lines blackish and diffuse ; first at 

 one-fourth denticulate outwards in cell and on snbmedian fold ; cell-spot ocelloid, 

 black, traversed by a dark indistinct curved median sliade ; outer line from three- 

 fourths of costa to two-thirds of inner margin, distinct and black, lunulate basewards, 

 denticulate outwards on the veins ; submarginal pale, denticulate, the teeth filled up 

 with blackish ; a row of round marginal spots ; fringe concolorons. 



