16G NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



fold. Hindwing silvery white, tinged with pale rufous towards base and on 

 apical area. Underside white, the forewing irrorated with red-brown except 

 on inner area. 



Hab. Br. C. Africa, Manje Plateau, 6,5Uu ft. (Neave), I o type. Exp. 16 

 miU. 



5310a. Holocryptis albida n. sp. 



<J. Head, thorax, and abdomen pure white ; frons, palpi, and forelegs tinged 

 with red-brown. Forewing white ; a blaclc point in the cell towards extremity 

 and minute subterminal points above and below vein 5. Hindwing white tinged 

 with red-brown ; a faint curved white postmedial band and narrow terminal 

 band. Underside of forewing suffused with brown ; hindwing wliite, the costal 

 area and terminal area to vein 2 suffused with pale red-brown, a shght curved 

 brown postmedial Une defined on outer side by white to vein 2. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Bibianaha (Spurrell), 1 3 type. E.\:p. 12 mill. 



5314a. Hasmaphlebia phaeomicta n. sp. 



Wings with the termen shghtly crenulate. 



$. Head, thorax, and abdomen white faintly tinged with red-brown and 

 mixed with dark brown ; antennae whitish tinged with red- brown ; palpi 

 black-brown, the 2nd and 3rd joints whitish at extremities ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen white tinged with brown, the legs irrorated with 

 dark brown. Forewing white tinged with red-brown and mixed with dark 

 brown ; a dark subbasal striga from costa ; antemedial line dark brown, sinuous ; 

 two rather diffused waved dark brown mecUal lines ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 dark, curved and slightly waved, a black-brown mark beyond it between veins 

 5 and 3 and some white points on costa with dark brown between them ; a 

 faint slightly waved whitish subterminal line defined on outer side by small 

 black-brown spots in the interspaces ; a series of small black-brown spots before 

 termen. Hindwing wliite tinged with reddish brown and irrorated with black- 

 brown ; two indistinct sinuous blackish medial lines ; postmedial fine incUstinct, 

 blackish, minutely dentate to vein 2, shghtly angled inwards at discal fold and 

 incurved at submedian fold ; an indistinct waved whitish subterminal line 

 defined on outer side by black scales ; a crenulate dark terminal line forming 

 minute black spots at the interspaces. Underside white tinged witli red-brow n 

 and irrorated with dark brown ; hindwing with faint dark ante- and post- 

 medial lines, the latter incurved at submedian fold, and traces of a waved 

 subterminal Une. 



Hah. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Xeave), 1 ? type. Exp. 24 mill. 



5316fl. Toana excisa n. sp. 



Antennae of male with scale-teeth at the joints and fasciculate cilia ; hind- 

 wing with the termen strongly excised at discal fold. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with wJiite, the last with 

 dark segmental lines except towards base ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen with more white, the tarsi dark brown ringed with white. Forewing 

 dark brown mixed with white ; a black-brown subbasal bar from costa ; ante- 



