262 • NOVITATES ZOOLOOICAE XXVI. 1919. 



part of cell ; an oblique black subbasal streak from costa ; antemedial line black, 

 excurved from below costa to submedian fold, then incurved and excurved above 

 inner margin ; medial line black, slightly excurved in the cell ; reniform large, 

 defined by black ; postmedial line black, angled outwards beyond upper angle 

 of cell, then obliquely curved to below angle of cell and erect to inner margin ; 

 an oblique series of three black spots from apex to beyond the angle of the post- 

 medial hne ; a terminal black line forming minute wedge-shaped marks at the 

 veins ; cilia with a series of blackish points near base. Hindwing grey suffused 

 with fuscous brown, the cilia rather whiter, with a series of obscure fuscous 

 spots near base. Underside white irrorated with fuscous ; forewing with the 

 disk suffused with fuscous, the postmedial line diffused, excurved just beyond 

 the cell ; hindwing with rather diffused fuscous discoidal annulus, curved post- 

 medial line and faint subterminal shade. 



Hob. " Germ. E. Africa," Lulanguru (Carpenter), 1 ^ type. Exp. 24 mill. 



VESTEBMAITNIANAE. 

 70146. Goniocaipe heteromorpha n. sp. 



S. Head and thorax glos.sy golden rufous ; the metathoracic crest black 

 tipped with white ; antennae grey-brown ; palpi yellowish white with some 

 fuscous at sides ; abdomen golden rufous, yellowish white at base, the crest on 

 3rd segment black tipped with white, the anal tuft black at extremity, the genital 

 tuft white with some rufous at extremity ; pectus and three basal segments of 

 ventral surface of abdomen yellowish white ; legs whitish, the tibiae tinged 

 with rufous and grey-brown. Forewing glossy golden rufous ; a blackish sub- 

 basal point in the cell ; antemedial line fuscous defined on inner side by whitish, 

 oblique, waved ; reniform defined by blackish, small, elliptical ; postmedial 

 line blackish defined on outer side by whitish, oblique to below vein 6, then 

 inwardly oblique ; a subterminal series of black points, the point below vein 7 

 further from termen. Hindwing yellowish white, the terminal area suffused 

 ■nith brown to vein 2. Underside of forewing whitish, suffused with brown 

 except on inner area ; hindwing with slight brown suffusion in the interspaces 

 at termen to vein 2. 



?. Head, thorax, and forewing suffused with sUvery grey and with hardly 

 any rufous tones, and sparsely irrorated with black scales, the reniform filled 

 in with rufous, the postmedial Hne less distinct and incurved at submedian fold. 

 The male has the antennae ciliated, the anal tuft not forked, the forewing with 

 the termen oblique below vein 4 but not waved ; the female has a forlied anal 

 tuft and the termen of forewing waved below vein 4. 



Hah. Natal, Pinctown (Piatt), 2 cJ, 1 $ type. Exp. 24 mill. 



Family Somabracbidae. 



Proboscis and palpi absent ; frons with pointed conical corneous process, 

 channelled and slightly ribbed below and with corneous plate below it ; antennae 

 of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; fore femora very short, with 

 curved corneous spine on outer side from extremity, the mid and hind tibiae 

 without spurs. Forewing with vein 1 a forked with I h, \ c absent, veins 2, 3, 

 4, 6 at intervals, 5 from just above angle of cell ; 6 from below middle of disco- 



