248 EAST AFIUCAN LEPIDOPTERA— HOLLAND. vol.xviii. 



Genus LEPISTA, Wallengren. 

 LEPISTA PANDULA (Boisduval). 

 Lithosia paudula, Boisduval, Delegorgne Yoy. Afr. Austral., 11, p. 597, No. 130. 



The collection eoiitaius one female agreeing- absolutely with speci- 

 mens in the British Museum. L. limbata, Butler, described from a 

 male specimen taken at Kilimanjaro, and now in the British Museum, 

 may bo the male of this species. 



Genus SOZUZA, Wallengren. 



SOZUZA STEVENSII, new species. 

 (PlMte VII, fig. 14.) 



Female. — Front, anteunie, and eyes black ; top of head, collar, tegulse, 

 thorax, abdomen, and anterior wings pale gray. Posterior wings 

 lighter gray. Anterior wings narrowly margined upon costa with 

 black. The under side is much as the upper side, save that the anterior 

 wings are shaded with blackish beneath. 



Expanse of wings, 44 mm. 



The type, one example from Kilimanjaro, is in the National Museum 

 collection. 



I name this species in honor of Mr. Stevens, the bicyclist, who 

 accompanied Dr. Abbott upon his journey to Kilimanjaro. 



Family AKCTIID^E, Stephens. 



Genus UTETHEISA, Hubner. 

 UTETHEISA PULCHELLA, Linnaeus. 

 Tinea pulchella, Lixx.EUs, Syst. Xat., I, 2, 884, p. 348. 



One specimen. 



Genus SPILARCTIA, Butler. 

 SPILARCTIA ABBOTTII, new species. 



Male. — Head, thorax, body, and anterior wings luteous. The five 

 posterior segments of the abdomen are banded with black upon the 

 upper side. Upper side: The anterior wings have three minute black 

 spots before the base, two poorly defined spots at the end of the cell, 

 a submarginal series of minute spots bifurcating near the apex, and a 

 small marginal spot at the end of each uervule. All of these S])ots 

 are dark brown, or black. The posterior wings are white and semi- 

 diaphanous, wath a minute black spot at the end of the cell. Under 

 side: The wings upon the under side are white, shading into luteous 

 upon the costa of the i^rimaries. The spots of the upper side disap- 

 pear upon the under side, or are very faint, except the spots at the 

 end of the cell, which are much larger than upon the upper side, and, 



