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Oue c? fioni tlie Escarinnent, l')ritisli East Africa, Alarch 1901 (Dobertv). 

 larger and witli more confused markings than tlie next species, 0. riilijjl(i(/(i, 

 the hindwings without com[)lete lines, the underside quite ditlV-rent. The neuration 



aho (h'ffcrs ; \eins 10 and 1 1 are stalked, not coincident. 



81. Catascia rufiplag'a sp. nov. 



Foronngx : ochreous, suffused with dull greenish and brownish flesh-colour, all 

 thickly speckled and .striated with darker; cosia with thick short striations; lines 

 blackish; first from one-fourth of costa, strongly bent in cell, then obliquely curved 

 to one-fourth of inner margin; median shade, straight, diffuse, from just lieyond 

 middle of costa to before middle of inner margin; these two often obscure; outer 

 line always distinct, black, fi-om three-foiu-lhs of costa to just beyond middle of 

 inner margin, lunulate-dentate, .slightly bent at vein 6, and angled outwards on vein 

 1 ; cell-mark ocelloid, obscure; subm.arginal line lunulate, the lunules beyond cell 

 and above inner margin filled up with dark, but more or less interrupted by a streak 

 or patches of brownish pink, which sometimes extend inwards to the median shade; 

 black marginal sjiots between the veins and a black marginal festoon ; the \eins 

 often marked with black streaks; fringe mottled pale and dark. 



HindvA/ngs : with diffuse antemedian* shade, distinct black lunulate-dentate 

 postmedian line, and obscure submarginal line, generally preceded by a dark shade ; 

 cell-sjiot blackish. 



Underside dingy greyish ochreous, usually with either a pinkish or greenish 

 tinge, dusted and suffused with fuscous ; the lines all indicated, the outer marked 

 by black vein-spots; cell-spots blackish. Head, thorax, and abdomen concolorous 

 with wings; the abdomen with dark segmental rings; i-haft of antennae spotted 

 with black. 



Expanse of wings : 42 — 44 mm. 



Six SS from the Escarpment, Krifish East Africa. .Tanuary — April 1901 

 (Doherty). 



\ eins 10 and 1 1 uf forewings are coincident throughout. 



Oedicentra gen. nov. 



Foreivivg/i : triangular; costa straight ; hindinargin curved. 



Jlindwinc/s : with both angles and liindniargin rounded, the latter subcrenulate. 



Antennae of cf bipectinate, the apex sinqile; ]ial]ii porrect, sliort and stout, 

 terminal joint small; vertex and forehead aliove rough-scaled; shoulders and patagia 

 semi-erect; tongue and frenulum present; hindlihiae much swollen, with four spurs, 

 the median pair short, the terminal long, the outer one of these swollen into the 

 form of an Indian club. No fovea in forewiug. 



Neuration: forewings, cell half as long as wing; discocellular concave, the lower 

 half obli(]ne; tirst ux^dian nervule at two-thirds, second close to third; radials 

 normal; 7, 8, 9, stalked just before end of cell; 10 free; 11 far back, anastomosing 

 strongly with 12: hindwings, costal ap])roximated to subcostal for nearly half of 

 cell ; 3 and 7 from before angles; no r<adial. 



'I'ype : Oedicentm albipennis sp. nov. 



