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Tlie liillnwiiii;- five new s]>eeies were diseovered in NorMi-East Africa by 

 Baron Carlo von Erlanger during; iiis exjiedition from Addis Abeha to Kismayo : — 



7(1(1. Poliana micra spec. nov. 



(?. A dnodez edition of P. bncliholzi, \\\ appearance like Pvuedora marsludli 

 (PI. V. f. 16). Legs as in P. bxchholzi, but first segment of hindtarsus not longer 

 than segments 2 to f) together ; clasper witii a similar patch of frictiou-scales. 



Antenna longer than cell of forewing, stout, strongly compressed, slightly 

 incrassate l)pyond middle. Occiput and tliorax olive above, mesotlioracic tegula 

 with ill-defined black lateral line which is bordered with creamy white beneath ; 

 abdomen with dorsal mesial row of black spots; fringe of tergites chequered 

 black and creamy white ; sides of proximal tergites with ill-defined blackisli 

 ])atc]ies ; underside of abdomen dirty white, a series of small black mesial spots, 

 standing at the bases of the segments ; breast greyish brown, palpus brown ; 

 tarsi blackish, tips of segments and of mid- and hindtibia white. 



Wings, iipperside^ similar to those of Poliaim hiicldwlzi and Praeihru 



marshiUi. Forewing with white stigma, the pair of antemedian lines joined 



in middle to the pair of discal lines as in Praeciora marshoUt ; a postdiscal line 

 more or less interrupted at the veins, parallel to the discal pair, sliglitly bordered 

 with grey proximally ; a snbmarginal zigzag line ; fringe blackish brown and 



white. Hindwing brown, greyish just behind cell, a very indistinct trace oi' 



a pale discal band ; fringe white, brown at ends of veins. 



l'/i(/t'rfi/(/t' greyish brown, base of hindwing grey, a pair of vestigial discal 

 lines across both wings. Tenth tergite slender in dorsal view, very strongly 

 compressed, being very much higher before end than broad, resembling in side- 

 view fig. 27 of PI. XXI. ; sternite very short, somewhat narrowed distad, apex 

 sinuate. Clasper (Fig. 6) broad, dorsal and ventral margins almost parallel, apex 

 rounded, slightly acuminate ; harpe raised into a slender, strongly chitinised, 

 sharply pointed process, which stands some distance away from the ventral edge 

 of the harpe, and jirojects dorsad and then distad, being dilated before the end, 

 which is somewhat twisted ; friction-scales erect, forming a conspicuous crest, 

 above which there is an impression covered with minute scales. 



Length of forewing : c?, 21 mm. 



IfoL Ganale R., 13. iv. 1902. 



ELLENBECKIA gen. nov.— Typus : monospila. 



? . Tongue vestigial, represented by two short lobes, covered with long scales. 

 Pilifer long, with a few hair-scales besides the bristles. Genal process obtuse, 

 short. Palpus small. Antenna incrassate distally, without distinctly prolonged 



