144 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918, 



underside white, the costal area and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with red- 

 brown, a small brown discoidal spot. 



Hah. Mozambique, Beira, Zimbiti (Sheppard), I tj, 2 ? type. Exf. 26-30 

 mill. 



3985a. Athetis roastis n. sp. 



5. Head, thorax, and abdomen bright red-brown, the head with whitish 

 mixed ; antennae grey-brown ; palpi dark red-brown, the 2nd joint in front 

 and the 3rd joint at tips whitish; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 red-brown mixed \^'ith some whitish. Forewing bright red-brovTi with a greyish 

 gloss ; a white point at base of submetlian fold ; a faint curved dark subbasal 

 striga from costa defined on outer side by ochreous brown ; antemedial Une 

 fine, blackish, oblique, shghtly excurved below costa and above inner margin ; 

 a black point at middle of cell ; reniform represented by a small pure white 

 spot with points above and below it ; a faint diffused dark medial Une, sUghtly 

 excurved at middle ; postmedial hue blackish, e.xcurved to vein 2, then erect, 

 a series of black points defined on outer side by white beyond it on the veins ; 

 subterminal line dark brown with a brownish shade before it, sUghtly angled 

 outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and incurved below vein 2 ; a shght 

 punctiform blackish terminal line ; ciUa with a fine pale Une at middle. Hind- 

 wing greyish suffused vAth reddish brown, the veins and terminal area darker ; 

 cilia whitish wth an ochreous Une at base and mixed with brown to vein 2 ; the 

 underside whitish thickly irrorated with dark brown except on inner area, a 

 blackish discoidal lunule and sinuous dark postmedial Une. 



Hob. Br. C. A&ica, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 1 ? type. Exp. 34 miU. 



3986a. Athetis melanerges n. sp. 



Head and tegulae yeUowish white faintly tinged with rufous ; thorax fuscous 

 glossed with leaden grey ; antennae black ; palpi black, the extremity of 2nd 

 joint and the 3rd joint ochreous white ; abdomen whitish suffused with fuscous 

 brown; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish mixed with brown, 

 the fore and mid tibiae, the hind tibiae towards extremity, and the tarsi black, 

 the last ringed with white. Fore\\ing fuscous glossed with leaden grej' ; a sub- 

 basal white point at costa ; antemedial line black with a white point on its 

 inner side at costa ; dentate ; reniform a small orange-yellow spot defined by 

 black and with white points round it ; postmedial Une black, defined on outer 

 side by whitish at costa, bent outwards and sinuous beyond the cell, obUque 

 from vein 3 to submedian fold, then excurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; traces of a dark subterminal Une with some wliite scales on it, slightly 

 excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine pale Une at base of ciUa. Hind- 

 wing white tinged with brown, the veins and termen darker ; ciUa whitish with 

 a dark Une near base to vein 2, dark at tips towards apex. Underside of fore- 

 wing fuscous, the costal area irrorated with white, an obUque whitish bar at 

 postmedial Une followed by white points ; liindwing white, the costa! area fuscous 

 irrorated with wliite, a small fuscous discoidal spot. 



Hah. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 1 J, 1 2 type ; Portuguese E. 

 Africa, Ruo VaUey (Neave), 1 S- Exp. 24 miU. 



