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So. Semiothisa curvilineata wp. nov. 



Forewings : greyish white, ochreoii.s-tiuged and dusteil with darker ; the Hues 

 dark Ijrowu ; the first straight and vertical from one-fourth of costa ; the second 

 slightly sinuous, before one-half of costa, traversing an oblique brown cell-mark ; 

 third from two-thirds of costa to three-tifths of inner margin, strongly sinuous, 

 incurved below, followed by a broad dark fuscous sliade ; a fuscous patch on 

 hindmargin from vein 8 to 2, its inner edge evenly curved ; fringe concolorons. 



IIindivi7i(is : whitish, slightly speckled with fuscous, more thickly along inner 

 and outer margin ; a black cell-spot ; very indistinct antemedian shade, and brown 

 postmedian line angled on vein 5. 



Underside whitish, mottled with pale yellow and speckled with brown : upper 

 part of marginal blotch of forewings deep brown, with a whitish spot above it ; 

 hindwings with apex brown, and a marginal row of white, brown-speckled lunules ; 

 space along cell and sulimedian fold white. Head, thorax, and abdomen like 

 forewings. 



Expanse of wings : 37 mm. 



One ? from Nandi station, March 1898 (Dr. Ansorge). 



The hindmargin of forewings is elbowed at vein 4, concave above ; hindwings 

 toothed. 



50. Semiothisa fulvimargo sp. nov. 



Forewings : white, speckled with olive ; the marginal two-fifths suffused with 

 dark olive-fuscous ; the costa darkened with fuscous strigae ; a dark spot above 

 fovea near base ; an olive line near base, bent in cell, then oblique ; an oblique 

 median line, jmssing over a large black oblique cell-mark ; outer line black, oblique 

 from two-thirds of costa, acutely angled towards hindmargin on vein 0, then 

 strongly curved to inner margin at three-fifths ; the costal space immediately 

 beyond this line, tinged with tawny ; a small whitish spot above the angle ; in 

 the dark marginal area, a darker brown fascia is visible beyond the outer line, 

 its edge curved from anal angle to angle of the line ; fringe dark, beyond a dark 

 marginal line. 



Uindinnga : with a brown mark at base ; brown antemedian and curved, 

 slightly waved, postmedian line, beyond which the margin is olive-fuscous, witji a 

 deeper fascia from costa beyond the line to anal angle : cell-spot small. 



Underside like upper : but the whole of the marginal area of hindwings and 

 its costal half in forewings, as well as the veins, deep fulvous ; the snbapical spot 

 pure white. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish white. 



Expanse of wings ; 35 mm. 



One S from Kasokwa, Unyoro, October 1897 (Dr. Ansorge). 



57. Tephrina dentilineata sp. nov. 



Foretcings : whitish grey, suflused with smoky fuscous and covered with small 

 blaekisji striations ; costa with black sjjots at the commencement of the lines, and 

 with fine yellowish striae between ; a black spot near base above the fovea ; the 

 lines starting from costa at one-fourth, one-half, and two-thirds respectively, the 

 second and third denticulate; snbmarginal line grey, acutely lunnlate, the lunules 

 filled ill with blackish, that between veins 3 and 4 forming a prominent oval 



