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Head and thorax smooth vioh't-jj;i'py ; face and paljii above aud antennae 

 darker ; scales of the shoulders aud jiatagia verj' broad and flat ; abdomen fiery 

 orange, ochreons beneath. 



Expanse of wings : 22 mm. 



1 S from Zomba, Ui)per Shire River, 3000 ft., December 1895 (Dr. P. 

 Kendall). 



Forewing with costa inflexed at middle, inner margin sinnate ; hindmargin 

 vertical to vein 3, then extremely oblique ; hindwing with elbow at vein 3, the 

 inner margin short ; palpi with very long second segment. 



Somewhat TesemhWug 1). J'enestratella Warr. from East Africa, but of (juitc 

 diflerent colour. 



Family URANIIDAE. 



Subfamily EPIPLEMINAE. 



3. Epiplema dohertyi spec. uov. 



Foreiciug : white clouded with grey, the costa dotted with black ; the two 

 transverse lines finely white with dark edges ; first from costa a little before middle 

 to before middle of inner margin, sharply angled outwards on the median vein : 

 outer line from two-thirds of costa to three-fourths of inner margin, vertical and 

 irregularly waved, indented on vein 4, edged outwardly by a dark grey shading 

 and inwardly by ferruginous scaling; the space between them above middle 

 filled in with leaden grey scales outwardly black-edged, the grey scales below the 

 middle mixed with whitish ; a large brownish fuscous blotch between veins 4 

 and 6 before margin, outwardly containing a blackish bracket-shaped mark ; a 

 row of black submarginal dots ; extreme margin grey ; fringe ferruginous, with 

 a white basal line. 



Hindwing : with costal area white ; the inner line biangulate, black-brown ; 

 outer line curved, finely white, inwardly edged with ferruginous scales, following 

 a central dark grey cloud ; a deep chestnut-brown blotch, mixed with ferruginous 

 and plumbeous scales before the lower tooth ; fringe brown ; some dark spots along 

 inner-marginal fold. 



Underside of forewing pale grey, of hindwing whitish, with some brown scales 

 before margin. 



Face and palpi dark brown ; vertex, shoulders, and patagia whitish ; thorax 

 and dorsum dark grey ; a white spot on metathorax. 



Expanse of wings : 10 mm. 



1 S from Mombasa (Doherty). 



Hindmargin of forewing entire ; of hindwing with curved teeth below veins 4 

 and (i ; antennae with distinct curved clavate teeth. 



4. Epiplema semipicta spec. nov. 



Forewing : pale grey, speckled with darker, and in the outer half of wing 

 with a slight brownish suffusion ; no inner line visible ; outer line fine and 

 indistinct, from three-fifths of costa, oblique outward to vein 6, then vertical, 

 incurved from vein 4 aud reaching inner margin a little before anal angle; a 

 brown crescent-shaped mark, inwardly edged with black, along the margin of the 

 subapical excision ; fringe brown from apex to middle, below it grey. 



