(4V7 ) 



Head and thorax dark fnscons ; abdomen like wings. 



Expanse of wings : 26 mm. 



1 c?, Amambara Creek, River Niger. 



A smooth and slightly glossy insect, reminding one strongly of nicetaria 

 Gnen. from South America ; the hindwings with a fovea, covered by hair scales, 

 at base. 



40. Selidosema crassata spec. uov. 



Foreiving : grey, suffused with dull fiesh-colour and thickly spotted and 

 striated with grey ; costal edge deeper red ; lines grey-black, more or less obscure ; 

 first close to base, second at one-third, both curved ; cell-spot black : submarginal 

 line obscure, preceded by a deep brown-black shade, forming irregular wedge-shaped 

 marks externally between the veins ; margiual area red-brown, the apex beyond 

 submarginal line black-brown ; fringe dark brown, with two darker traversing 

 lines. 



Hindwing : with the two dark inner lines and the cell-spot ; submarginal line 

 not marked. 



Underside paler, reddish tinged in forewing, whitish in hindwing ; both 

 wings with coarse grey speckling, black cell-spots, and darker marginal border. 



Face and palpi rufous grey ; vertex pale grey ; thorax and abdomen fuscous 

 tinged with reddish ; underside of abdomen, like hindwing, whitish with grey 

 mottlings. 



Expanse of wings : 3(J mm. 



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



41. Selidosema pinguis spec. nov. 



Forewing: mealy white, thickly sprinkled, and in parts sutfused, with black; 

 the lines black ; first from one-fifth of costa to one fourth of inner margin, angled 

 on subcostal vein, then oblique, darker sjjutted on veins, preceded by a yellowish 

 shade, the extreme base blackish ; outer line from two-thirds of costa to a little 

 beyond middle of inuer margin, sinuous, outcurved between veins 6 and 2, and 

 insinuate in submedian interval, also darker marked on veins and followed by a 

 yellowish shade ; median shade a little before middle, slightly curved; space between 

 it and outer line filled up with blackish ; cell-spot large, of slightly lustrous grey 

 scales ; submarginal line irregularly waved, whitish, preceded by a thick black 

 shade, followed by a row of yellowish blotches on veins ; between veins 3 and 4 

 a pale patch in the dark marginal area ; marginal black spots between the veins, 

 connected by a fine black festooned line ; fringe pale grey mottled with darker. 



Hindwing : dark smoky grey, towards inner and hindmargins whitish with 

 black speckling ; a straight thick black median shade to just beyond the black 

 cell-spot ; a black shade preceding the pale submarginal line, which is followed by a 

 yellowish shade. 



Underside dull cinereous ; the cell-spots and marginal borders dull blackish. 



Head and thorax black ; abdomen pale grey, with broad black dorsal patches, 

 the basal segment whitish ; legs black, spotted with whitish. 



Expanse of wings : 40 mm. 



1 ? from Sajua, Angola, June 1901 (Pemberton). 



The single specimen, which is as good as bred, has the abdomen very stout 

 and the antennae finely bipectinated. 



