122 ■ HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD ON LEPIDOPTERA 



costa to vein 4 ; a subterminal white crenulated line, ternien orange buff with black 

 dots. Hindwing, basal ^ white, base sooty black ; outer half orange buff with discal 

 black line, a subtornal sooty patch and a grey subapical streak ; middle ^ of fringe 

 black, rest pale buff. 



1 c? Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Dec. 1912. 



670. AULACODES POSTBASALIS sp. nOV. 



?. Antennae brown, head and thorax sooty black ; abdomen white, two basal seg- 

 -ments above sooty black. Forewing befow costa sooty black, costa pale buff, powdered 

 with sooty scales ; an oblique wedge-shaped white patch runs up into wing from inner 

 margin, a postmedian oval white patch below costa to vein 3 ; a white subterminal 

 band, termen buff. Hindwing, basal ^ sooty black, a broad median band white, outer 

 half buff ; a median discal sooty line and a marginal row of 7 black dots with inner 

 dark line above them. 



Expanse 20 mm. Length of forewing 8-5 mm. 



1 ? Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Dec. 1912. 



671. CoPTOBASis MESOPSECTEALis Hmpsn. 



Coptohasis mesopsectralis Hampson, Trans. Ent. Soc. Land. 1897, p. 203 (Amboina). 



1 o^ 1 ? Base Camp, Jan.— March 1913 ; 1 ^ Utakwa River, 2500-3000 ft., Dec. 1912. 



672. Hymenoptychis sordid a Zell. 



Hymenoptychis sordida Zeller, Lef. Caffr., p. 65 (1852) (CaSraria). 

 1 tJ 1 ? Base Camp, Jan. 1913. 



673. Dracaenura plebejifascialis sp. nov. 



(J. Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen wood yellowish buff. Forewing buff washed 

 with brownish grey, costa, a subbasocostal spot and a postmedian transverse line 

 mauve grey tinged with brown, a dark spot in cell. Hindwing buff washed on outer 

 half with brown-grey, a median mauve grey transverse line. Fringe of all wings white. 



? similar. 



Expanse 24 mm. Length of forewing 10-5 mm. 



3 c?<? 6 9? Base Camp, March 1913. 



674. Dracaenura chrysochroa Hmpsn. 



Dracaenura chrysochroa Hampson, Ann. Mag. N.JI. (7), xix. p. 3 (1907) (Kapaur). 

 1 c? Utakwa River, 3000 ft., Jan. 1913. 



