212 NOVITATES ZOOLOCICAE XXV. 1918. 



beyond it ; postmedial line dark brown defined on outer side by white, slightly 

 angled outwards above and below vein 5, then incurved and ending on vein 1 

 above tornus ; a series of dark points before termen and fine whitish line at 

 base of cilia. Underside grey-brown sUghtly irrorated with whitish ; both w ings 

 with slight curved waved postmedial brov\n Une and faint waved subtcrminal 

 line. 



Hah. S. Nigeria., Abutshi (XeHUian), 1 ^ type. Exp. 50 mill. 



inSa. Colbusa restricta n. sp. 



Head and thorax chocolate-brown, the vertex of head flesh-white, the pro- 

 and metathorax with flesh-white bands ; antennae dark brown, white above 

 towards base ; palpi scarlet tinged with brown ; abdomen yellowish rufous, 

 the basal crest red-brown ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish, the 

 former scarlet in front ; legs pale red-brown. Forewing deep chocolate-brown ; 

 a flesh- white fascia on costa to the postmedial band, extending at base to inner 

 margin and v\ith an obUque red-brown bar on it near base : postmedial band flesh- 

 white, oblique from costa to tornus, its inner edge slightly incurved beyond tlie 

 cell and above tornus, met above tornus by a narrow flesh-white terminal band 

 and \vdth some pale scarlet at tornus ; a fine dark terminal Une ; ciUa white tinged 

 with scarlet. Hindwing bright scarlet ; a terminal brown band from costa, where 

 it is rather broad to vein 4, spots below veins 4 and 3 and a slight mark above 

 tornus ; cilia brown towards apex. Underside of foreuing brown with oblique 

 white band from below costa beyond middle to just above tornus, rather diffused 

 on outer side ; hindwing pale scarlet \\ ith narrow brown terminal band to vein 

 2, its inner edge dentate. 



JIab. N. Nigeria, Kano (F. G. Brown), 1 J, 1 i' type. Exjj. o 42, ? 46 mill. 



7994i. Metria phaeobasalis n. sp. 



(J. Head and thorax dark red-brown, the frons and base of tegulae whitish ; 

 antennae dark brown ; palpi whitish irrorated with brown ; abdomen whitish 

 sufifused with red-brown, the crests dark red-brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral 

 surface of abdomen white, the fore and mid tibiae suffused with red-brown, the 

 tarsi dark brown ringed with white. Forewing \>itli the basal half daric red- 

 brown, its outer edge rather oblique, the outer half wliitish tinged and irrorated 

 with red-brown ; subbasal Une black, very sUghtly waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold, defined on each side by whitish marks at costa ; antemedial Une 

 black, sightly angled inwards at subcostal nervure, excurved at middle, defined 

 on each side by whitish marks at costa : reniform whitish, incompletely defined 

 by brown striae and with some brown in centre ; postmecUal Une dark brown, 

 obUque to vein 6, below vein 4 bent inwards to median nervure before end of 

 cell with an angle outwards at vein .3, then waved to inner margin, some white 

 points beyond it on costa and a patch of dark brown suffusion on costal area 

 before the brown subterminal Une, which is strong and dark to discal fold, 

 then sUght ; a series of blackish striae before termen. Hindwing wliitish tinged 

 with red-brown, the terminal area suffused with bright red-brow n ; an indistinct 

 diffused brown antemedial Une, sUghtly angled outwards at lower angle of cell ; 

 a waved bright red-brown postmedial Une with dark points before it on veins 2 



