J 40 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



indistinctly double, blackish, obUque, excurved in the interspaces and angled 

 inwards at the veins ; orbicular and reniform very indistinctly defined by black 

 marks on their edges, small ; postmedial line very indistinct, whitish, curved, 

 a blackish patch beyond it on costal area defined on outer side by a white line 

 and with white points at costa, with a white patch below it and subterminal 

 white patches above and below vein 5 ; a terminal series of minute black spots ; 

 cilia dark brown with a white line at base. Hindwing grey-brown, the veins 

 darker ; cilia with white line at base followed by a dark line, the tips brown 

 and white ; the underside white tinged with brown and irrorated with dark 

 brown. 



Hah. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 1 (J, 1 ? type. Exp. $ 20, ? 24 mill. 



3579a. Neophaenis lichenea n. sp. 



?. Head and thorax white tinged with yellow-green, the tegulae with a 

 few brown scales dorsally, the prothoracic crest brown ; antennae brown ; Irons 

 with lateral black bars ; palpi black and white ; abdomen yellowish, dorsally 

 tinged with brown, the crests on 2nd and 3rd segments with black mixed ; pectus 

 and legs white, the fore tibiae and the tarsi banded with black, the liind tibiae 

 and tarsi tinged with yellow. Forewing white suffused wth yellow-green, the 

 area below discal fold from the antemedial to the subterminal line and just before 

 the latter to costa dark brown tinged with grey ; a black streak on base of 

 vein 1 , its extremity expanding into a small spot above the vein ; a subbasal 

 black point followed by a small spot on costa ; antemedial Une with black bar 

 from costa and small spot in the cell, then a slight waved Une, followed by another 

 blackish line, strongly bent outwards at discal fold and obUque and sinuous 

 below the cell ; reniform very large, extending to well below the cell, its outer 

 edge waved, its centre defined on inner side by black, its inner edge concave 

 towards base, an obUque sUghtly waved dark Une from it to inner margin ; post^ 

 medial Une with two black bars from costa above end of ceU, strongly bent out- 

 wards and obsolete below costa, then black and sUghtly waved, double below 

 discal fold, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, the costa beyond it with alter- 

 nating black and white streaks, a black streak from it to termen at discal fold ; 

 subterminal Une dark brown defining the dark area, sUghtly waved, excurved 

 below vein 7, angled inwards at discal fold, and bent inwards at vein 2, its outer 

 edge sUghtly defined by white with dark streaks on the extremities of the veins 

 to vein 3 ; some brown suffusion below apex ; a lunulate black terminal Une to 

 above vein 2 ; ciUa brown to vein 2 intersected by white at the veins. Hind- 

 wing golden yellow with black-brown terminal patch from costa to vein 3, very 

 broad at costa ; a black terminal Une to vein 2 and some black scales at 

 extremity of vein 1 ; ciUa white chequered with dark brown towards apex and 

 at vein 3. Underside golden yellow ; forewing wth the terminal half brown, 

 its inner edge bent inwards in the ceU and outwards below submedian fold to 

 towards termen ; the terminal half of costa with alternating black and white 

 marks with ochreous below them, the termen with some white at middle, ciUa 

 chequered brown and white to vein 2 ; hindwing with sUgUt brown mark at 

 middle of costa. 



Hcib. Venezuela, Esteban VaUey, Las Quiguas (Klages), 1 ? type. Exp. 

 44 mill. 



