206 XOCTUIDJE. 



with ochrcous. Hind wing pure white, the costal area tinged with 

 fuscous ; the underside with discoidal point and postmedial series 

 of short streaks on the veins. 



5 . Hind wing dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous at base from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Dobbie), 1 $ ; Zulttland, Lower 

 Tugela (Reynolds), 4 c?; Natal, Victoria District (GoocJt), 1 d type, 

 Northdene, 1 $ , Durban (Leigh), 1 5 . Kvp. 30-34 millim. 



1420. Odontestra alhivitta, n. sp. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 6.) 



c? . Head and thorax purplish fuscous, the hairs tipped with 

 grey, the patagia with rufous patches ; tarsi with ochreous rings ; 

 abdomen ochreous, ventrally fuscous. Fore wing purplish fuscous, 

 ■subbasal line represented by black striae on reddish marks from 

 costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinct, slightly deiined by 

 ochreous on inner side, angled outwards in cell, then incurved ; 

 claviform large, filled in with black, a whitish fascia above it, above 

 and below median nervure and vein 2 to near subterminal line ; 

 orbicular a small ochreous-white spot or obsolete ; reniform with 

 rufous centre and ochreous annulus, slightly angled inwards on 

 median nervure, black patches before and beyond it ; postmedial 

 line slightly defined by rufous on outer side, dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some ochreous 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series 

 of ochreous spots with dentate black marks before them, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, the area beyond it reddish ; cilia pale rufous, 

 with two brown lines through them. Hind wing ochreous white, 

 with diffused fuscous subterminal band; the underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with fuscous, a postmedial series of short 

 streaks on the veins. 



Hab. Er. E. Africa, Athi-ya-Mawe (Betton), 1 J , Kikuyu 

 (Craivshai/), 1 cJ type. Exp. 32 millim. 



1421. Odontestra simillima. (Plate LXXXIV. fig. 7.) 



Keuria simillima. Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 344 ; Hrapsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 201. 



Head and thorax purplish fuscous mixed with black ; tarsi with 

 pale . rings ; abdomen brownish ochreous, dorsally tinged with 

 fuscous. Fore wing purplish fuscous mixed with some red-brown ; 

 an ochrcous-white fascia on inner margin from near base to tornus, 

 with some red-brown above it on medial area : subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to submcdian fold ; antemedial line double, waved, 

 obsolete below vein I ; claviform large, defined by and suffused with 

 black ; vein 2 defined by a dentate white streak to postmedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former somewhat 

 elliptical, the latter angled inwards on median nervure, with whitish 

 annulus and rufous patch on outer side ; postmedial lino double, 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, 



