66 W. J. HOLLAND. 



Note. — The coloration of the genus faintly suggests Cresso7iia. 

 The structure is very different, and reminds me of some Noctuidse. 

 Expanse of wings % , 70 mm. 



Kangvve (Good). 



Genus BASIABfA Walker. 



23. Ba!>iiausi Horiiiuiaiiui Druce. PI. Ill, fig. 5 ; '^ , fig. 6, pupa. 



Eutomologist's Monthly Magazine, vol. xvi. p. 268 (1880). 



I submitted a rough sketch of the insect, a figure of which I give 

 in the plate, to ^Ir. Druce, who identified it as Hornimanni. From 

 the extremely brief description in the " Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine" I should never have been able to have determined the 

 species. My specimens, a male and a female ex. larva, are singularly 

 fresh and perfect, and reveal many points to which Mr. Druce does 

 not allude in his description. I question the reference of this species 

 to Basiana of Walker. The truncated apex of the primaries and 

 the slenderer form are differentiating marks worthy of attention. 

 Expanse 4? inches. 



24. B. eiiodia n. sp. Plate IV, fig. 3. 



Upprrside. — Hear!, thorax and abdomen dark brown, with a few glaucous scales 

 mingled with the vestitnre of the top of the thorax. Primaries and spcondaries 

 of the same general color as the body ; at the base of the primaries is a small 

 patch of bluish green scales in the middle of which is a minute annulus of 

 raised blackish scales. The wing is covered by a number of transverse waved 

 lines, of which those on either side of the discal spot are double. The discal 

 spot is large, rhombic, composed of light greenish gray scales bordered with dark 

 brown ; ju.st before the apex and the internal angle are spots of an ill-defined 

 shape of the same glaucous scales ; the costa of the posterior wings is light 

 brown, the remainder of the wing dark brown, adorned at the anal angle by a 

 patch of blue-green scales. The end of the cell is marked by a line of dark 

 raised hairs; the external margin, which is slightly excavated beyond the sub- 

 median nerve and crenulated, is faintly fringed with white in the indentations. 



Underside. — Thorax and abdomeu vermilion ; tibiseand tarsi of legs dark gray. 

 Primaries light brown, shading into red on the limbal area; margin widely 

 brown, a blue-gray spot at apex, and two ill-defined yellow streaks on limbal 

 area between veins 2 and 4, bounded internally and externally ))y the geminated 

 waved lines whicli starting on the outer third of the costa traverse the wing to 

 the inner margin. Secondaries broadly vermilion from base outwardly as far as 

 the waved submarginal Hue, beyond which they are darker and dusicd with 

 bluish gray scales. Expanse of wings 100 mm. 



Described from one slightly damaged female in coll. Holland. 

 Kangwe (Good). 



