230 NoVlTATKS ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



2876a. Trachea lobisemastis n. sp. 



Hind\\ing in both sexes with the costa strongly lobed towards base. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with some rufous and whitish, 

 the head and base of tegulae mostly rufous and whitish ; antennae dark brown ; 

 palpi whitish in front ; abdomen brown tinged with grey, the crests and anal 

 tuft dark brown at tips ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with red-brown, the 

 forelegs red-brown, the tarsi dark brown with pale rings. Forewing red-brown 

 mixed with grey-white especially in, below, and beyond the cell and on inner area ; 

 a black-brown streak below base of cell ending in a small wedge-shaped mark ; 

 an indistinct obUque dark subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line indis- 

 tinct, dark, oblique, and slightly waved to vein 1, then bent inwards to inner 

 margin with a curved black-brown mark above it ; claviform tinged with rufous 

 and defined by black-brown, a dark brown fascia from its lower edge to the 

 subterminal Une ; orbicular and reniform large, grey- white tinged with red-brown 

 and defined by dark brown except the outer edge of the latter, the former oblique 

 elliptical, a triangular patch suffused with dark red-brown between them from 

 costa ; postmedial Une slight, dark brown, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, oblique below vein 5, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; traces of 

 a pale waved subterminal Une ; the interspaces of terminal area with dark brown 

 streaks between vein 4 and submedian fold. Hindwing red-brown, the inner 

 area pale ; the underside whitish suffused with red-brown on costal half, tinged 

 with red-brow n on inner half. 



Hob. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 1 (J, 1 ? type. Ex-p. 34 mill. 



2919a. Trachea euryscia n. sp. 



?. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish suffused with red-brown and irrorated 

 with black; antennae dark brown. Tarsi dark brown ringed with whitish. Fore- 

 wing whitish tinged with oUve-green and with red-brown except on terminal 

 area, and irrorated with dark brown ; an indistinct double blackish subbasal 

 line from costa to vein 1 ; a wliitish patch tinged with rufous beyond it in 

 submedian fold ; antemedial Une black-brown, obUquely curved, a broad black- 

 brown shade beyond it in submedian interspace to the postmecUal line ; orbicular 

 white tinged with rufous, incompletely defined by black and with some dark 

 brown in centre, round ; reniform whitish defined at sides by black-brown and 

 with some brown in lower part, quadrate, a black-brown patch beyond it ; 

 postmedial Une black-brown, bent outwards below costa, then sUghtly waved, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some whitish points with dark brown between 

 them beyond it on costa and a dark brown patch before the indistinct whitish 

 subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black-brown striae ; ciUa red-brown with obscure whitish spots at base. Hind- 

 wing cupreous red-brown ; ciUa white mixed with red-brown ; the underside 

 white irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with red-brown, a 

 brown discoidal spot, indistinct waved postmedial Une and faint subterminal 

 shade. 



Hob. Gold Coast, Kumasi (Sanders), 1 ? type. Ex-p. 28 mill. 



