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DBEPANULIDAE, TnYBIDIDAE, BPIPZEMIBAE, AND 



GEOMETBIDAE 



FROM THE AETHIOPIAN REGIOX. 



By W. WAEEEN, M.A., F.E.S. 



Family PB EPA XUL IDA E. 



1. Ausaris amaura sji. uov. 



Forcwings : brownisli ochreous, dai-ker brownish towards liindmarein, with all 

 the veins paler ; a silvery-scaled streak along costa from base, becoming subcostal 

 in outer half of wing ; a diffuse brown shade from base through cell towards apex, 

 with a line of silvery scales along its middle ; a large brown mulberry-shaped 

 discocellular blotch with some lustrous scales upon it ; a smaller dark brown 

 blotch between it and apex ; traces of a dull brown lustrons-edged inner line 

 at one-third, more distinct towards inner margin ; a denticulated lustrous line, 

 marked with dark leaden-tinged spots on the veins, from costa before apex to 

 anal angle, preceded by a brown shade and followed by a brown suffusion ; fringe 

 ochreous, marked with brown. 



Iliiidicings : paler, with the submarginal lustrous line and brown shades as 

 in forewings, but not reaching costa ; traces of a central brown shade from inner 

 margin. 



Underside uniform ochreous, darker in forewings, without markings except 

 a faint brown straight shade from apex. Thorax, abdomen, and lower half of face 

 ochreous ; upper half of face, fillet, antennae, and palpi dark brown. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



1 ? from Ogrngu, Amambara River, Lower Niger. 



2. Phalacrothyris subviridis Warr., Nov. Zool. VI. p. 28". 



The specimen from which tlie above description was made was a ? from Warri, 

 in the Niger Delta ; a second ? lately received from Sierra Leone, and certainly the 

 same spucics, shows additional markings, wliieli in the typical specimen were obscured 

 or obliterated ; a darker brown, somewhat jiaier-cdged line runs straight from ai)ex 

 of forewing to middle of the inner margin, before which line, except along the 

 costa, the whole of the basal area is darker than the marginal area beyond it ; 

 besides the dark spot in cell before the hyaline blotch there is also a sjiot on 

 the sul)median fold nearer the base, these two spots ajiparently rei)reK('nting the 

 course of the inner line ; at middle of costa and on subcostal vein above the hyaline 

 blotch are some brown markings indicative of a median line ; and there is a slight 

 submarginal cloud corresponding to the dark line of the underside. In the hindwing 

 there is a darker brown central belt edged by a paler line and traversed by another, 

 both angled below vein ; a dark brown spot stands at the upper end of the 

 discocellular, and another at the lower end, the latter surrounded by green scales 

 and touching the hyaline spot below vein 4. The <J S (of which there are examples 



