Jg4 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



5906a. Eustrotia oblicLuisignata n. sp. 



?. Head and tegulae rufous ; thorax and abdomen brown glossed with 

 purplish grey ; antennae red-brown ; palpi black-brown, the extremity of 

 2nd joint and the 3rd joint rufous ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 brown mixed with whitish, the tarsi dark brown ringed with whitish. Fore- 

 wing red-brown glossed with purple-grey and mixed with some rufous, the 

 costal edge rufous to the postmedial Une, then with rufous points ; subbasal 

 black spots on costa and below the cell ; antemedial line dark brown, obUque 

 to median nervure, excurved below submedian fold, then inwardly obUque ; a 

 deep-black discoidal lunule joined by a strong oblique black bar from costa ; 

 postmedial hne indistinctly double, brown, forming a small black spot at costa, 

 obUque to vein 6, slightly incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line \^'ith two small black spots at costa and two rather obhquely placed spots 

 below costa, then faint, pale, sUghtly waved, with slight blackish points before 

 it at veins 6, 5, 4 ; a fine blackish terminal Une with sUght wliitish points before 

 it at the interspaces ; ciUa rufous. Hindwing dark glossy brown, the ciUa with 

 pale Une at base. Underside grey-brown, the costal area of forewing and the 

 hindwing irrorated with whitish. 



Hab. Br. C. Africa, Mt. Mlanje (Neave), 1 ? type. Exp. 30 mill. 



59066. Eustrotia magniplagia n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax red-brown ; antennae dark brown ; palpi irrorated with 

 wliitish ; abdomen greyish sufiused with red-brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown, the tibiae and tarsi dark 

 brown, the latter ringed with white. Forewing red-brown with a large conical 

 chocolate-brown patch from costa before apex to vein 5, its outer edge strongly 

 excurved below vein 7, sUghtly defined by whitish and with three whitish points 

 at costa ; an indistinct waved red-brown antemedial Une ; a minute dark 

 discoidal annulus ; a tUffused medial Une, obUque to lower angle of cell ; post- 

 medial Une faint, obUque to the lower edge of the patch, then with slight dark 

 points at the veins ; subterminal black points on veins 4, 3. Hindwing brown 

 tinged with grey, the terminal area darker ; ciUa with a whitish Une at base and 

 whitish tips. Underside whitish suffused with brown ; hindwing with sUght 

 brown discoidal bar and difiused curved postmedial Une defined on outer side 

 by whitish. 



Hah. N. Nigeria, Olokemeji (Dudgeon), 1 $ type. Exp. 24 mill. 



591 3o. Eustrotia perirrorata n. sp. 

 ?. Head and thorax dark brown irrorated with white ; antennae ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface irrorated with white ; 

 tarsi dark brown ringed with white. Forewing chocolate-brown thickly irrorated 

 with bluish white, the terminal area less thickly irrorated except at apex ; an 

 indistinct slightly waved dark antemecUal Une ; reniform slightly defined by 

 chocolate-brown, rather obUque, bar-shaped; postmedial Une dark bro\vn, 

 obUque to vein 6, then inwardly obUque, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 a faint subterminal series of sUght brown spots from vein 6 to inner margin ; a 

 series of white striae before termen ; ciUa with some fine white Unes through 



