84 HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD ON LEPIDOPTERA 



442. Hyposidra plagosa sp. nov. 



(?. Antennae black-brown ; thorax and abdomen grey umber, apical -1 of patagia and 

 patch on basal segment of abdomen sooty black-brown. Forewing yellowish grey 

 wood-brown with a suffusion of umber brown and irrorated with dark brown ; a white 

 line on costa |- from base, a curved chocolate brown antemedian line, a chocolate cellular 

 stigma, a chocolate red patch beyond cell from which a median dark grey line runs to 

 inner margin, a double crenulate median line, blackish grey inside, white oustide, an 

 anteapical chestnut red patch marked with white, a cloudy chocolate patch above 

 tornus. Hindiving similar in ground colour, antemedian and median dark grey crenulate 

 bands, the latter followed by an indistinct grey cloud-band which in turn is followed 

 by a chocolate rufous one, a patch of greyish white above tornus. 



Expanse 50 mm. Length of forewing 22*5 mm. 



1 cJ Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Feb. 1913. 



443. Hyposidra schistacea Warr. 



Hyposidra schistacea Warren, Nov. Zool., iii. p. .305 (1896) (Fergusson). 



1 oM ? Base Camp, Nov. 1912— Jan. 1913. 



444. Orthometa foliacea sp. nov. 



(?. Antennae clay grey ; head and thorax clay grey with some black and rufous on 

 edges of tegulae ; abdomen yellowish clay grey. Forewing, basal ^ clay grey with a 

 sinuate red transverse line within and a broad straight antemedian chocolate band 

 edging this area ; outer | violet brown-grey with some irregular clay-grey patches here 

 and there ; a postmedian double transverse line broadly interrupted between veins 3 

 and 6, below vein 3 this line is inside chocolate and outside yellowish clay grey, above 

 vein 6 rust red ; apex truncate excised, fringe chocolate. Hindwing : apex produced 

 truncate deeply crenulate ; yellowish clay cinnamon irrorated and strigillated with 

 sooty grey, an indistinct anten:edian line and some dark dots. 



Expanse 48 mm. Length of forewing 22 mm. 



1 cJ Canoe Camp, Dec. 1912. 



445. Orthometa argillacea sp. nov. 



<3. Antennae brown ; head and thorax yellowish clay-colour ; abdomen similar, last 

 3 segments and tuft whitish. Foreiving clay buff slightly strigillated and irrorated with 

 brown; a slightly obHque brown antemedian band, beyond which above inner margin 

 is a black-brown patch with a burnt aspect, beyond middle of wing faint indications 

 of shadow-bands. Hindwing clay buff strigillated and irrorated sparsely with brown, 



