NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. IU18. 121 



1538a. Hyssia pallidicosta n. sp. 



?. Head ochreons white with a few blackish scales ; thorax grey and white 

 suffused with red-brown and with seme blackish scales ; antennae black-brown, 

 white in front towards base ; palpi whitish in front, pale red-brown and black 

 at sides ; abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown ; pectus and legs pale red- 

 brown, the tibiae with some black-brown, the tarsi black-brown ringed with 

 white. Forewing grey suffused with pale red-brown and Lrrcratcd with black, 

 the veins streaked with white, the costal area whitish irrorated with black ; some 

 black below base of cell ; antemedial line faint, with slight oblique black striga 

 from costa, then pale and curved ; orbicular small, white with a dark bar in 

 centre, oblique elliptical ; reniform narrow, wliite tinged with rufous, its centre 

 defined on inner side by a dark line, some dark brown beyond it before the post- 

 medial Une, which is blackish with a black point at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique and slightly sinuous ; traces of a sinuous subterminal Une 

 formed by black scales ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; cilia with 

 a fine whitish line at base. Hindwing whitish suffused with pale red-brown and 

 tinged with grey ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia creamy white with a 

 faint brown line near base. Underside of forevnng grey-brown, the costa 

 whiti.sh irrorated \\ ith black and with a black postmedial bar from costa ; hind- 

 wing whitish tinged with red- brown and irrorated with black, a black discoidal 

 spot and brown postmedial line. 



Hah. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 1 $ type. Exp. 34 mill. 



1692rt. Morrisonia macrcpis n. sp. 



5. Head and thorax rufous, the vertex of head and dorsum of tegulae with 

 whitish streak, the prothoracic crest whitish at tip ; the tegulae with black 

 mecUal line defined by bright rufous in front, their tips white with bright rufous 

 before them, the patagia with some white scales on upper edge, the palpi with 

 some dark brown at sides and white tips : abdomen pale silky red-brown, the 

 basal crest white with black bar, the anal tuft rufous ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen rufous mixed with some whitish, the fore tibiae and tarsi 

 whitish tinged with rufous, the latter with some black at extremity. Forewing 

 pale red- brown slightly tinged with grey, the veins blackish irrorated with white ; 

 the costa whitish towards base ; a sinuous black streak in submedian fold to 

 the antemedial line, defined above by whitish towards base ; two obhque blackish 

 subbasal striae from costa ; two oblique antemedial black striae from costa 

 and a faint oblique blackish line from cell to inner margin ; claviform slightly 

 defined hy black scales at extremity ; orbicular and reniform large, with some 

 blackish in centre and sUght wliite annuU defined by black except above, the 

 former elongate elliptical, the latter with its centre defined by black on inner 

 side, some blackish suffusion between them and above them on costal area ; 

 traces of an oblique waved blackish line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, double, dark brown, bent outwards below costa, then 

 somewhat dentate, exciu'ved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by small dentate 

 black marks at middle, angled outwards at vein 7, then slightl}' waved ; a rather 

 punctiform black terminal hne and pale Une at base of cilia. Hindwing 



