146 NOVITATES ZOOLOCICAE XXV. 1918. 



line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line blackish, 

 excurved below costa, then sUghtly waved, incurved at discal fold ; faint traces 

 of a sinuous dark subterminal line ; a terminal series of black points. Hind- 

 wing pale glossy red-brown udth a fine pale Hne at base of cilia. Underside of 

 forewing dark red-brown vnth terminal series of small black lunules ; hindwing 

 dark red-brown, the inner half paler, a slight black discoidal spot. 



Hab. Centr. China, Hupeh, Lia-Shin-Tze (Betton), 1 ? tj'pe. Exp. 28 mill. 



4010a. Athetis atristicta n. sp. 



?. Head and thorax white suffused with grey-brown ; antennae black- 

 brown except basal joint ; palpi black, wliite in front and at tips ; pectus and 

 legs whitish, the latter tinged with red-brown and irrorated with blackish, the 

 tarsi red-brown ; abdomen white tinged with brown and dorsally irrorated 

 with blackish. Forewing grey-white irrorated with a few black scales, the ter- 

 minal area sUghtly darker ; an antemedial black point in the cell ; the orbicular 

 represented by a black point and the reniform by four slight points ; traces of 

 a double curved postmedial series of black points ; a terminal series of black 

 points ; ciUa rather darker greyish brown with a slight ochreous line at base. 

 Hindwing white, the veins tinged with brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 bro\vn except towards tornus ; ciUa with an ochreous white Hne at base to vein 

 2 followed by a dififused brown hne ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with a few black scales, a terminal series of black striae. 



Hab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Jack), 1 $ type. Exp. 28 mill. 



Genus Ethionodes nov. 



Type : Xanthograpta brunneiplaga Beth. Baker. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled in front, the 3rd short and thickly scaled ; frons 

 with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male minutely serrate and with rather long cilia ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae slightly 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen without crests. Forewing with the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 from cell. Hind- 

 wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



In key differs from Xenopsenstis in the palpi being upturned, the pro- and 

 metathora.x with spreading crests, the hindwing with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 stalked, 

 and 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Genus Hypermilichia nov. 



Type: Hypermilichia colnn'Dogn. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obUquely upturned, the 2nd joint reach- 

 ing to about middle of frons and moderately scaled, the 3rd minute ; frons with 

 rather long truncate conical corneous process with raised rim at extremity ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennae ciliated ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales 

 and without crests ; fore tibiae smoothly scaled {mid and hind legs wanting) ; 



