250 EAST AFRICAN LEPIDOPTER A— HOLLAND. vol. xviii. 



Ex])aiise of wings, 36 mm. 



Type ill the Natioual Museum, from Kilimanjaro. 

 Tliis species is fully one-third less in size than T. ohscura and T. sub 

 macula., both of which species were described by Walker. 



Genus PELACHYTA, Hubner. 

 PELACHYTA MAURITIA, StoU. 

 Noctua maurUid, Stoi.l, Pap. Exot., IV. pi. 345 ]5. 



Genus METARCTIA, Walker. 

 METARCTIA INCONSPICUA, new species. 

 (Plate YIII, tig. ::!.) 

 il/^f//e.— Antenna?, head, collar, and abdomen light reddish-brown, 

 brightest upon the collar. The teguhie and the upper surface of the 

 thorax are darker brown, without the reddish cast. The upper surface 

 of the anterior wings is of the same color as the upper side of the 

 thorax. The posterior wings are pale, creamy gray, shading on the 

 inner margin into luteous. The under side of both wings is pale ashen 

 gray, tinged with luteous upon the costa. 

 Expanse of wings, 30 mm. 



Described from one specimen in the collection. This insect is repre- 

 sented in the collection of Mr. Herbert Druce by a male and female 

 specimen from the Congo. 



Family LIPARIDyE, Boisduval. 



Genus LEUCOMA, Stephens. 

 LEUCOMA TAVETENSIS, new species. 



Male.—Uead pale luteous. Antenna-, legs, and body pale gray. The 

 wings on both surfaces are white, shading into pale gray on the costa 

 upon the upper surface of the primaries. The edges of the costa- and 

 the fringes of the Avings upon the under side are very narrowly pure 

 white. The wings are immaculate, save that at the end of the cell in 

 the primaries there are two minute black spots, visible only upon the 

 upper surface. 



Expanse of wings, 40 mm. 



The type, a male, is unique in the National Museum collection, and 

 is labeled "Taveta, May, 1888." 



Family LASIOCAMPID.E, Harris. 



Genus LICHENOPTERYX, Felder. 

 LICHENOPTERYX DESPECTA, Felder. 

 Lichoiopteri/x despecta, Felder, Nov. Reise, Lep., IV, pi. 95, fig. 5. 

 One female specimen. 



