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NEW BBEPANVLIBAE, TEYRIBIDAE, UBANIIBAE, AND 

 GEOMETBIDAE FROM THE AETHIOPIAN REGION. 



By W. warren, M.A., F.B.S. 



Family DREPANULIDAE. 



1. Oreta angustipennis spec, no v. 



Forewiny ; pale yellow, with a few brown speckles ; costa tinged with pale 

 brown ; a pale brown patch in cell, jirolouged beyond it to apex, which above 

 the oblique line is wholly brown ; a pale brown line oblique from ape.\ to before 

 middle of inner margin ; a brown cell-spot at middle of discocellular, connected 

 by a fine brown line with a slight spot at lower angle ; fringe brown, yellow at 

 anal angle. 



Hindwing: wholly pale yellow, the olili(jae line of f'orewing produced across 

 the base ; fringe brownish ; a few submarginal brown specks. 



Underside of forewing baseward from the oblique line brown, this colour 

 extending also slightly down the hindmargin ; the rest pale yellow ; a slight yellow 

 blotch beyond the cell in the brown area ; speckling coarser than above : hindwing 

 yellow. 



Face, pectus, and forelegs dull red ; vertex brown ; thorax and abdomen 

 yellow, the latter with a brown line continuing that of the wings ; all the tarsi 

 reddish. 



Expanse of wings : 30 mm. 



1 ¥ from Amambara Creek, River Niger (Braham). 



Antennae with clavate serrate uniseriate pectinations : forewing narrower than 

 usual in the genus. 



Family THYRIJJIDAE. 

 2. Dysodia flammata spec. nov. 



Forewing : a mixture of deep red, leaden grey, and fuscous ; the transverse 

 streaks brownish ; a broad subcostal streak of leaden grey, and a slight tinge of 

 the same colour along inner margin and at base of wing ; costa with dark spots, 

 the intervals red in basal half and ochreous beyond ; a bright red spot on disco- 

 cellular, followed by a crescent-shaped hyaline white spot : the red spot is preceded 

 and the white blotch followed by darker blotches from the costa of fuscous and 

 red not reaching below the median ; the marginal area beyond is orange yellow, 

 varied with red and crossed by brown lines, the apex and hindmargin being again 

 fuscous and brown. 



Hindwing : yellow and fiery orange, with darker cross-lines ; a large loaf- 

 shaped hyaline white blotch in the end of the cell, which is very broad; fringe 

 brown. 



Underside dull flesh-colour, with the markings dark brown ; a costal blotch 

 beyond middle of forewing embracing the white blotch and upturned to median 

 vein before it ; a brownish submarginal streak from costa and patch at anal angle : 

 hindwing with brown patches at base, below and beyond the hyaline blotch, and 

 at apex. 



