202 NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXV. 1918. 



■mng ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; S anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



In key differs from Paracrama in the palpi having the 3rd joint short and 

 thickly scaled. 



G977rt. Maurilia rufirena n. sp. 



$. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown with a silvery leaden gloss, the 

 last with the crests darker ; pectus and legs white tinged with rufous, the fore 

 and hind tibiae and tarsi red-brown. Forewing grey-brown with a silvery 

 leaden gloss and tinged in parts with red- brown, an antemedial patch from cell 

 to inner margin finely pencilled with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with 

 cupreous red-brown ; an indistinct obhque almost straight red-brown ante- 

 medial line ; reniform pale bright rufous ; postmedial Une red-brown, slightly 

 sinuous, rather oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique. Hindwing uniform 

 dark red-brown with a cupreous gloss. Underside of forewing glossy fuscous, 

 the costa brownish white, the inner area white, an eUiptical pure white dis- 

 coidal spot ; hindmng white faintly tinged with red-brown to median nervure 

 and vein 2, the inner area suffused with grey. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Lagos (Dudgeon), 1 ? type. Exp. 44 mill. 



69776. Maurilia atrirena n. sp. 



$. Head and thorax pale red-brown ; antennae pale grey-brown : abdomen 

 grey-brown tinged with red-brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen w hite tinged with rufous, the forelegs redder brown. Forewing pale 

 greyish rufous, the terminal area deeper rufous ; a minute black spot in base 

 of cell ; a faint red-brown antemedial Hne, oblique to median nervure, then 

 erect ; reniform grey-black, rather ill-defined ; an obhque rufous shade from 

 just beyond upper angle of cell to inner margin before the postmedial Hne, which 

 is very faint, brown, excurved below costa and beyond lower angle of cell ; 

 subterminal line red-brown, rather oblique to vein 5, then excurved, and 

 incurved below vein 3. Hindwing red-brown, the basal half of costal area 

 wliitish ; ciha whitish at tips. Underside whitish suffused with red-brow n except 

 on inner areas. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Crompton), 1 ? type. E.vp. 40 mill. 



6990a. Beara achromatica n. sp. 



?. Head and thorax whitish irrorated with reddish brown ; antennae tinged 

 with fuscous ; abdomen whitish suffused vnth brown, leaving pale segmental 

 lines ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white irrorated with brown. 

 Forewing white irrorated with reddish brown ; a shght dark subbasal striga 

 from costa ; a faint medial hne formed by blackish scales, angled outwards at 

 submedian fold ; a faint postmedial Hne formed by blacldsh scales, obUque to 

 discal fold, then inwardly obhque ; a faint brown subterminal line, somewhat 

 excurved at middle. Hindwing white tinged with reddish brown. Underside 

 whitish ; forewing suffused with reddish brown ; hindwing irrorated with 

 reddish brown except on inner area. 



Hab. Philippines, Manila (Ledyard), 1 ? type. Exp. 20 mill. 



