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Subfamily SBMIOTHISINAE. 



50. Acadra simplicilinea spec. nov. 



Very mncli like .1. rertigtriaria H.S., bnt in all cases the oblique line is single, 

 not double, and generally much finer ; in the forewing the basnl line is bluntly and 

 shortly rounded in cell, then waved to inner margin ; in rectistriaria this line is 

 acutely angled close before the cell-spot, then straight and oblique to inner margin ; 

 and the same holds also with regard to the middle line ; the submarginal shading 

 in rectistriaria above the inner margin is more or less broken up into diffuse lines, 

 in the present species it forms a dense cloud, darker externally and curving 

 outwards into anal angle ; in the hindwing especially this difference is noticeable, 

 and the submarginal cloudy fascia is connected by two or three acute angular 

 marks with the single fine outer line. 



Ou the underside the ground-colour is much paler and the markings darker than 

 in rectistriaria ; in the forewing the median shade is always well expressed, whereas 

 it is absent in H.S.'s species, and in the hindwing the dark outer fascia is never 

 connected with the angle by a darker shade, the whole of the marginal area 

 remaining pale. A more imiwrtant difference is that in rectistriaria the fovea 

 in the c? forewing is slight and obscure, and in simplicilinea large and conspicuous. 



3 (?c? from Nguelo, Usambara (Dr. Kummer). 



It is altogether a more neatly marked insect than rectistriaria, and the cell-sjiot 

 of forewiugs seems always larger, more linear and conspicuous. 



51. Gonodela apicepallens spec. nov. 



Fo re icing : pale greyish ochreous, speckled with darker grey; the costa with 

 fine black streaks ; lines olive-grey, indistinct ; the basal angled bluntly in cell ; 

 the median sinuous, outcurved below costa, beyond a dark linear cell-spot ; outer 

 line darker, more distinct, from two-tliirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, 

 widely bent above, thickened below middle into a black spot between veins 3 and 4 ; 

 submarginal dark shade diffuse and interrupted, forming a streak at costa and 

 inner margin, and a spot between veins 3 and 4 ; marginal area rather darker 

 than rest of wing, except a roundish apical space above vein 0, which is ]ialer ; 

 blackish marginal luuules between the veins ; fringe pale grey, the tips towards the 

 apex of wing darker. 



Hindwing : similar, but without basal line ; cell-spot round, preceded by the 

 median line ; outer line fine, lunulate-dentate, followed liy a uniformly broad 

 darker shade. 



Underside like upper, but paler ; the lines scarcely visible ; cell-spots plain ; 

 a brownish submarginal fascia forking towards apex of forewing enclosing the 

 pale s])ace. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous. 



Expanse of wings : 20 mm. 



1 ? from Bango, Angola, October 1903 (Dr. Ansorge). 



^^'ings rather narrow and elongate; the forewing with hiudmargin simply 

 curved, the hindwing with it liluutly angled. 



.52. Gonodela conturbata. 

 The species was described from several ? ? from Warri, jyof. Zool. v. j). 251 

 (1898). The S S are much darker, purplisli fuscous, but the much-waved outer line 



