( 4()6 ) 



projectinj!; tooth from costal streak, the enter running along hindmargin to apex 

 and broadening inwards to form a paler quadrate patch between veins 5 and T ; 

 marginal line dnll red-brown, swollen between the veins ; fringe pale brownish. 



Hincliviiiq : similar ; basal space before first line washed witli white ; pale 

 area beyond second line more broken by green spaces ; the whiter sulxpiadrate 

 marginal blotch not extending above vein 6, the submarginal green interspace 

 narrower ; the veins beyond middle cream-colonred, dotted with dark grey, more 

 conspicnously than in forewing. 



Underside uniform greenish cream-colonr ; costal edge of forewing and 

 fringes pale brownish. 



Head, collar, shoulders, and abdomen cream-coloured, speckled with rufons 

 and grey ; face and outer side of jialpi deeper rufous ; thorax and patagia and 

 basal segment of abdomen pale green (the parts of the thorax are worn, but the 

 green was probably somewhat varied with jialer) ; abdomen green-tinged above ; 

 abdomen beneath and legs cream-colour ; forelegs rnfons in front ; antennae pale, 

 ■with a rufous tint. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



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



Subfamily STERRHINAE. 

 13. Chrysocraspeda leighata spec. uov. 



Forewing : pinkish lilac, covered with darker transverse striae ; the costa 

 vinous red ; marginal area narrowly yellow, the edge of the red ground-colonr 

 curving from apex to vein 4, running in basewards slightly at vein 4 and again 

 at vein 2, preceded by a broad dark pnrple band ; cell-spot vinous red ; fringe 

 yellow. 



Hindwing : with basal half like forewing, outer half yellow, with bright-red 

 striae ; cell-spot purple, like the outer band, which projects tooth-like into the 

 yellow margin at vein 4 ; fringe yellow. 



Underside ]iink, -without striae ; outer half of hindwing yellow ; the submarginal 

 band dnll purple, almost obsolete in forewing. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and antennae all red. 



Expanse of wings : 17 mm. 



1 (S from Durban, Natal (G. F. Leigh). 



Emmiltis (Craspedia) magnidiscata spec. nov. 



Forewing: bone-colour, with an ochraceons tinge when fresh, with a few 

 black speckles; first and outer line marked by precise black dots on veins, the 

 first curved at one-fourth, the outer, parallel to hindmargin, from four-fifths of 

 costa to three-fourths of inner margin ; the spots connected by a slightly darker 

 sliade than the ground-colour ; two similar submarginal shades enclosing the j)ale 

 submarginal line; a row of black marginal dots; fringe glossy, coucolorous ; 

 cell-spot black, distinct ; an obscure oblique median shade. 



J/indwing : similar, but the cell-spot large, roughly angular. 



Underside with outer and marginal lines and cell-spots ; forewing slightly 

 grey-tinged. 



Face and jialpi black, paler below ; thorax and abdomen bone-colour, the latter 

 with black dorsal spots ; vertex white. 



