( 520 ) 



7:i. Darisa ocliriuiacula >•[>. nov. 



Foreii'iiigs : brownish fuscous, witli a decided olive-green tinge, thickly ilusted 

 with dark atoms; the lines dull blackish; first from one-third of costa to one-third 

 of inner margin, bent at right angles in cell and irregularly waved, preceded by 

 a parallel tliick olive-fiiscous shade; outer line a little before two-thirds, angled 

 inwards above yein G and outwards on vein ri, then inwards curved and again angled 

 slightly outwards on vein 1, followed by a thick olive-fuscous dentate-edged shade ; 

 submarginal line paler, waved, preceded and followed by olive-fuscous clouds; median 

 shade jiarallel to inner line, curved outwards beyond the dark cell-spot; marginal 

 spots triangular, black, connected by a fine festoon ; fringe concolorous, with darker 

 lines along middle and tips; space between veins 3 and 4 at their origin as far as 

 outer line consjiicuously pale ochreous ; veins beyond outer line dotted with pale. 



IlinJu'iiujs : without first line, the median shade antemedian ; liasal area as far 

 as outer line paler, less suffused with fuscous (except in the c?). 



Underside pale ochreous, fliintly greenish-tinged, thickly dappled with dark 

 grey, all the lines and cell-spots indicated; outer line followed by a broad smoky- 

 fuscous submarginal fascia, extended to margin on each side of yein 5; this fawia 

 is variable in intensity, and almost obsolete in the single d. Head, thorax, and 

 abdomen concolorous with wings. 



Expan.se of wings : c? 42 mm.; ? 48 mm. 



One S, three ? ?, from the Escarpment, Krltish Kast Africa, January — Ajirll 

 1901 (Doherty). 



Recognised at once by the conspicuous pale blotch at base of veins 3 and 4 of 

 the forewings. In most cases there is a pale patch of unspeckled ground-colour 

 before the submarginal line on each side of vein 6, in one case extended to apex. 



D. dissimilis NVarr. from Mauritius, which also has the pale spot, is smaller, and 

 in the ? much paler. 



74. Ectropis ocellata sp. nov. 



Forevnngs: pale grey speckled with darker, the lines darker; first at one-fourth, 

 curved outwards above and below ineilian vein, and black-marked on the veins; 

 median line indistinct, cloudy and irregularly dentate at costa. oulcurved round the 

 ocelloid cell-siiot ; outer line at Iwo-thirds, black, denlate-hmulate, followed by a 

 similar cloud, the two sometimes forming a dark lilotch on inner margin ; submarginal 

 line indistinct itself, the preceding lunules filled up with black ; marginal spots large, 

 black ; fringe grey. 



Hindwings : without first line. 



Underside of d ochreous-grey, smooth, without speckling, the forewing tinged 

 with dark grey; a small cell-spot and dentate outer line shown; a dark marginal idoud, 

 leaving the apex and a spot below middle ochreous; under.side of ? whilisli; cell- 

 s[K)t large and round; outer line niarkeil by black dots; marginal shade blackish, 

 leaving the spots whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen like wings. The J cJ always 

 darker than the ? ?. 



Expanse of wings : c? 35 — 40 mm. ; ? 40 — 48 mm. 



A large number from the Escarpment, British luist Africa. September 1900 — 

 April 1901 (Doherty). 



