62 W. J. HOLLAND. 



margin as in scifula. Fringe white, checkered with bhick. Posterior nniujn 

 brown, darkest upon the margin, witli an obscure submarginal band of ferru- 

 ginous. Fringe as in primaries. 



Underside. — Anterior wings smoky gray, with a lilaceous submarginal shade, 

 defined inwardly by a row of yellow luuules extending from the costa to the 

 internal angle and preceded toward the base by a band of ferruginous spots. 

 Posterior wings light ferruginous, except on margin, which is broadly lilac gray, 

 preceded by a narrow baud of yellowish red luuules ; a narrow, median, trans- 

 ver.se band and a still narrower and fainter subniedian band traverse the wing 

 from the costa to the inner margin. Palpi, thorax and legs asben white, abdo- 

 men tinged with light ferruginous. Expanse of wings 38 mm. 



Described from one female in coll. Holland from Kangwe (Good). 



This species may be distinguished from scitula, which at first sight 

 it resembles, by the absence of the submarginal white spot in the 

 primaries, the more intricate style of the markings and its smaller 

 size. 



Subfamily Ch^rocampin.e. 



Genus PAIVACRA Walker. 



IL Panacra Saaliniilleri Moeschler, Abhandl. d. Senckenb. Naturf. 

 Ges. Bd. XV. p. 68. Plate I, fig. 23 (1887). 



" Very closely allied to ray P. imitans, which mimics the Malagasy 

 Chcerocampa Geryon," A. G. Butler in litteris. 

 Benita (Reutlinger). 



Genus BASIOTHEA Walker. 



12. Basiotliea idricus Drury. Illustrations, vol. iii. pi. ii, fig. 2 (1793). 

 I have a number of the bred specimens of the imago and the 



cast-off pupa ca.ses, but the latter are hardly in such condition as to 

 justify an attempt to frame a description or prepare a figure. They 

 strongly remind me of the pupa of Choerocampd tersa, the common 

 Chcerocampa of the United States. 

 Benita, Gaboon, Kangwe. 



Genus DIODOSIDA Walker. 



13. Diodosida fiiiuosa Walker, Lep. Het. viii. p. 193, No. 3 (1856). Zo- 



niliafumosa Boisd., Spec. Gen. Crepusculaires, vol. i. p. 144. 



Walker's type was from the Congo, and is in the British Museum. 

 Boisduval based his description upon an example from the Guinea 

 Coast. 



Kangwe (^Good). 



