NOVITATES ZOOr.OOICAE XXV. 19I8.' 183 



o84Sc. Acaenica diaperas n. sp. 



(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen creamy white suffused with brown ; antennae 

 dark brown ; palpi dark brown, white at extreme tips ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen creamy white, the forelegs suffused with dark brown. 

 Forewing with the basal half black-brown, its outer edge incurved below median 

 nervure, then oblique ; an indistinct dark antemedial line defined on inner side 

 by some creamy white, excurved below costa and incurved in the cell, the 

 area beyond it creamy white tinged with pinkish, met by an oblique creamy 

 white fascia from apex giving off an oblique bar from its lower edge to vein 4, 

 lea\'ing a conical black-brown patch on costa before apex with three wliitish 

 points in it, the terminal area black-brown, narrowing to a point at apex, its 

 inner edge obUque and sinuous, defined by a black line ; a black discoidal point ; 

 a fine black line defining the upper part of the oblique bar on inner side ; a fine 

 black terminal line and whitish line at base of ciha. Hindwing creamy white 

 tinged with brown, the tornus suffused with pink ; traces of an oblique dark 

 postmedial fine, arising at vein 6 and forming two black striae at tornus ; a 

 terminal grey-brown band narrowing to a point above tornus and defined on 

 inner side by a black fine below vein 4 : a fine black terminal line and whitish 

 line at base of cilia. Underside white tinged with red-brown : forewing with 

 small obHquely-placed white subterminal spots above and below vein 7 ; hind- 

 wing with sUght blackish discoidal spot. 



Ilab. Portuguese E. Africa, Mt. Cliiperone (Neave), 1 o type. Exp. 26 mill. 



59046. Eustrotia rubrisignata n. sjs. 



?. Head and thorax -.' hitish suffused with oUve, the patagia with some 1>lack 

 scales at base and towards tips ; antennae blackish ; palpi blackish towards tips ; 

 abdomen oUve with diffused black bands ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen white tinged with oHve, the fore tibiae with some black, the tarsi 

 black ringed with white. Forewing white suffu.sed with olive-brown, the medial 

 area rather deeper oHve except towards costa ; a black point at base of costa 

 and some black scales at base of inner margin ; antemedial fine white, defined 

 on outer side by black below submedian fold, obUque ; claviform white with 

 some fiery red scales in centre and a short black fascia beyond it ; orbicular and 

 reniform white, the former with fiery red centre, rather obfique, the latter with 

 fiery red annulus in centre with some black scales on its lower part, a quadrate 

 black patch between them and a dark shade from costa, the reniform with some 

 black scales on its outer edge ; postmedial line wliite defined on inner side by 

 some black, very oblique below costa, excurved to vein 4, then obUque, met 

 beyond the cell by an obUque oUve-brown fascia from apex ; subterminal Une 

 whitish, defined on inner side by oUve-brown below the obUque fascia, incurved 

 below costa and above inner margin, some black scales on its outer side from 

 vein 5 to submedian fold followed by some oUve ; a dark terminal line. Hindwing 

 brown glossed with grey, the ciUa white at tips. Underside of forewing brown, 

 the inner area white ; hindwing white irrorated with dark brown, a black discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 1 ? type. Exp. 20 miU. 



